We really went all out this year. Here are 100 ships delivering the goods from all corners of all fandoms straight to your eyes. Yes, really. 100 of them. And that still barely scratched the surface. Did your OTP make the list?
Also interesting: there are 6 RPS on this list, most from relatively large/widespread fandoms (One Direction) or with big-name celebrities (Taylor Swift and Karli Kloss). And yet there’s Misha and Jensen keeping company with folks who have sheer numbers on their side.
It doesn’t make us any better or any more right (we’re right), but it suggests a much larger proportion of the fandom in general is behind this ship (and tagging frantically). Well done, team. Very well done.
I’m mostly fascinated that Cockles runs that close to Sabriel content. I mean it’s no secret to fandom that Destiel is a huge phenomenon, but Sabriel keeps fairly close company (while not being totally mutual) and generally, RPS isn’t as widely accepted as, say … well, actual fiction ships due to moral holdoffs and social reservation against it. So to say, “The concept of RPS ship Cockles is the size of Sabriel, the second largest ship in the fandom” is… actually pretty big lmao. I don’t even go here but I’ll give accolades where accolades is due. They all outperformed other supposedly ancient huge ships, such as Wincest, which didn’t make the list, much less J2.
In b4 J2 hats or Wincest shippers start trying to whine about crosstagging being responsible, which they’re actually a bigger criminal in than anything, with no explanation on why they didn’t even clip the top 100 in the fictional ship ahoyhoy.
i’m stil LOLing over this
also detroit: become human came out a mere six months ago and hank/connor is number 32.
but j2 and wincest? around for going on 14 years? suspiciously missing.
it’s just a LOLs fest over here. hankcon hasn’t even been around a whole year and they managed to make the list.
It’s like those who ship wincest are, wait for it… in the minority?
However could that happen? Surely incest is on the top of everyone’s kink list right? Right?!
Bueller…?
I’m gonna sit back with my cup of coffee and wait to see how us “Hellers” fucked this one up.
something something overtagging something
but yeah despite numerous data collections, analysis, polls, etc etc etc, the myth of destiel fans being 1% still clings on.
i mean, i got so bored proving positive engagement numbers vs negative on official tweets, i stopped only two episodes in this season. they’re THAT insignificant in numbers.
and a note i wanted to add about sabriel: it’s such a tiny ship, it’s nearly a rare-pair. one half of the pair was presumed dead until the 2017-2018 tv season and even then he’s now been presumed dead (I WANNA BELIEVE OK HES NOT DEAD JUST LIKE EILEEN ISNT) since like may. and yet despite one character missing, it still managed to get a spot on the list.
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