Re: OT re: "Popular" fanfic couples

["ebailey140" <ebailey140@xxxxxxx>]

--- In buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, danspector@w... wrote:
> Koos,
>
> Not that I particularly care, but I wonder if your research went far
> enough down to determine if B/W is more "popular" than B/F.  (I know
> we've got BuffyNFaith beat easily in numbers, but they may have more
> total groups/sites/whatever you counted.)  I know it's an unimportant
> distinction (those who don't get that B/W is it?  More fool they,
> heh-heh&), but I'm curious, especially since it may be a battle for
> the "Most Popular UC F/F Pairing" title.
>
> And yes, I have zero clue about the Spander, either.

Well, there's also Faithful Chickies (not technically a B/F list, but
that's it's main thing) and Vampslayers 2003.  B/F has always been the
more popular (Until W/T, it was THE most popular femmeslash ship),
because it had the strongest subtextual backing, intentionally written
into the show from FHT through WAY.  In fact, W/T, in it's early
stages before NMR, was compared to B/F, as far as subtext was
concerned.  Of course, after WAY, it was dropped, completely...  

B/W, on the other hand, had the problem of the text seeming to go out
of it's way to torpedo it, from Season 4 onward (as soon as Tara
entered the picture).  Has anyone here, besides me, had the
displeasure of trying to defend the ship to non-B/W shippers?  Even a
recent issue of the Buffy magazine wondered how it was that Willow
never seemed to notice how attractive that blonde friend of hers was.

E





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