Sometimes I wonder if I’m too exclusionary about my ship preferences in DMBJ: whenever I’m reading something that’s not Iron Triangle OT3, I’d rather it were, and I don’t ever write anything else (or, well, the polycule can get bigger, and the members of the polycule can have outside relationships, but the OT3 is always there in the background).
The fandom’s quite small, and exclusionary focus on Iron Triangle OT3 limits my choices in stuff to read/ to enjoy. Writing it means there’s a number of people who won’t read my fic. And I don’t dislike the other ships. They’re good, I’m happy when people enjoy them. They’re just not for me.
Anyway, I just rewatched Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Star Trek: TOS was my first fandom, but I never managed to really pin down a ship for myself. K/S was fine, I enjoyed it, but it wasn’t quite it. I always ended up missing Bones. The other ships that existed were also all fine, but none of them quite hit the spot. Now, you gotta realize, this was over 20 years ago, and I was in my teens. “Polyamory” was not really a thing I’d heard of outside of awful men marrying 50 women under religious pretenses and exploiting them. And while there were a handful of people writing Kirk/Spock/Bones, the AO3 didn’t exist and I was using Yahoo search to find things. Figuring out that Kirk/Spock/Bones was the thing I wanted didn’t just happen.
Time passed, I moved on to other fandoms, I found other ships, I figured out my own sexuality and preferences, the AO3 came to be. And now I’m here in DMBJ fandom shipping the Iron Triangle--and, you know, that ship is not so different from the TOS OT3. Xiaoge and Spock have some character archetype overlap, so do Pangzi and Bones, and Kirk and Wu Xie are both heavily plot armored protagonists driven by curiosity and solving problems with unlikely maneuvers that would never work in a story that cares about realism, never mind reality. It’s the first ship dynamic I fell for, even though I didn’t realize it at the time, just because I didn’t even have a name for it.
So, you know, thinking about it like that, maybe I get to just soak in the pleasure of having discovered a ship that does what I want at a point in my life when I can finally put a name to what it is that I want. Maybe I don’t need to give Pingxie a chance, or keep an open mind for leaving Xiaoge or Wu Xie out of the mix. I’m never going to have as much content to enjoy as someone who ships the main ship, but that’s okay, as long as I can go on the AO3 and read the handful of fics for my ship and post my little poly stories for other people looking for poly content to enjoy.
(... and this is why we don’t want censorship on the AO3, thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.)
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Avatar The Last Airbender
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The Thread of Fate - Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five, Part Six, Part Seven, Part Eight, Part Nine, Part Ten, Part Eleven, Part Twelve, Part Thirteen, Part Fourteen, Part Fifteen, Part Sixteen, Part Seventeen,
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It Was Nothing
Theatrics
I’m Here Beside You
Big Hero 6
Pairing: Tadashi Hamada x Sakura Kamiya
Light 'em Up - Prologue, Chapter One, Chapter Two, Chapter Three,
Criminal Minds
Pairing: Spencer Reid x Evelyn Richardson
Mind Over Matter - Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five, Part Six, Part Seven, Part Eight, Part Nine, Part Ten, Part Eleven, Part Twelve, Part Thirteen, Part Fourteen, Part Fifteen, Part Sixteen,
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A Slight Frustration
Pairing: Spencer Reid x Reader
Hold Me Closer
First Kiss
Don’t Go!
Crossover - Frozen x Rise of the Guardians
Pairing: Jack Frost x Elsa (Jelsa)
One Step Closer - Part One, Part Two (InProgress)
Digimon
Pairing: Taichi Yagami x Hidemi Senshi
The Next Adventure
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
Pairing: Alphonse Elric x Willow Hawkeye(OC)
The Ties That Bind - Prologue, Part One,
Pairing: Edward Elric x Reader
Homecoming
The Language of Flowers
Pairing: Roy Mustang x Reader
I Will Always Choose You
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Pairing: Severus Snape x Reader
Reluctant Friendship
Justice League DC Universe
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Lucky Break
Pairing: Superman aka Clark Kent x Reader
Part One - Convince Me, Part Two - I’m Convinced
Wedding Drama
Pairing: (Platonic) Superman aka Clark Kent x 12-year-old reader
A New Life
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Pairing: Steve Rogers x Rachel
Kiss It Away
Stolen Kisses, Stolen Moments - Part One, Part Two
Pairing: Steve Rogers x Reader
Confessions
Last Night
Empowering
Distraction
Pairing: Dr. Stephen Strange x Clea
Love, A Kind of Magic - Part One, Part Two
Pairing: Dr. Stephen Strange x Reader
Bleeding Love
Perfection
A Surprising Twist
Sleep Deprived
What the Wife Says Goes
Pairing: Bucky x Reader
Nothing But a Burden
Pairing: Peter Parker x Reader
A Pact Renewed
Because You’re Mine
Not a Waste of Space
Just Hold Me
Pairing: Loki x Reader
Never Leave Me
Pirates of the Caribbean
Pairing: Will Turner x Reader
My Heart Calls Your Name
Tavern Brawls
Rise of the Guardians
Pairing: Jack Frost x Evening Star aka The Blue Fairy
Two Spirits Meet - Wishing on a Snowflake I,
Sherlock (BBC)
Pairing: Sherlock x Reader
Serendipity
The Consulting Detective and the Serial Killer
His Love for Her
Your Hand in Mine
Drunken Comfort
Its All Been Arranged
An Unconventional Love Story (Victorian Era AU)
Star Trek(2009)
Pairing: Spock x Kealoha
The Roommate Experiment - Prologue, Part One
Pairing: Spock x Reader
The Little Green Monster
Chasing Away The Darkness
Here For You (InProgress)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Pairing: Leonardo x Amal
Heaven’s Light
A Comforting Embrace
The Amazing Spiderman
Pairing: Peter Parker x Reader
A Nonverbal Confession
Falling For Him
Heal Together
Drunk on Pheromones
Take All The Time You Need
Falling for the Enemy
The Chronicles of Narnia
Pairing: Peter Pevensie x Reader
An Unexpected Turn
We Face It Together
Pairing: Edmund Pevensie x Reader
The King and the Commoner
The Hobbit
Creepy Crawlies (No Pairing)
Pairing: Kili x Reader
You Are Safe
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Pairing: Legolas x Annúneth
Love Happens(Coming Soon)
Pairing: Legolas x Reader
We Meet Again
A Confession Years In The Making
My Prayer, My Light, My Fëa
A Little Introduction to Rock Music
A Promise
Written In The Stars
Treasure Planet
Pairing: Jim Hawkins x Reader
A Little Competition Goes a Long Way
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