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Sophinisba Solis ([personal profile] sophinisba) wrote2011-07-20 07:41 pm

Rare pairings poll!

Oh hey, I was just tagging the post for my new bingo at [community profile] kink_bingo and I started to wonder if I could count it for the rare ship/rare characters Achievement. The rules say, "You define what is or is not a rare ship/rare character; this, like so much at Kink Bingo, is on the honour system."

Ahhh, I don't know! Will you help me decide? I feel pretty secure that Inara/Zoe from Firefly is a rare pairing and Annie from Treme is a rare character in fandom. If I were looking at the other squares I've filled so far I would also count Merlin/Will, Gwen/Lancelot, Freya/Merlin, and Freya/Morgana.

But what about Gwen/Morgana? It used to be a relatively popular pairing but it's never really been big compared to Arthur/Merlin, and there isn't much at all being written these days. Then there is Gus and Shawn, who are the main characters on Psych but don't actually get written about that much. And I just don't know much about Avatar fandom. Also, do you think the medium should matter? The Audiofic archive has one Azula/Ty Lee podfic and five Gus Shawn ones (two of them by me, all of them shorter than the one I posted yesterday). Gwen/Morgana poetry is certainly rare, but then any fannish poetry is rare, so, I don't know!

So here is a poll! Who doesn't like filling out a poll? Please be honest and don't vote yes just because you think it's what I want to hear! I am already getting a bunch of Achievements on this bingo so I will not be sad if I don't have this one as well.

Poll #7561 Rare pairings
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 23


Should I count Gus/Shawn as a rare ship?

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Yes
6 (33.3%)

No
3 (16.7%)

I don''t know
9 (50.0%)

Azula/Ty Lee?

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Yes
4 (22.2%)

No
1 (5.6%)

I don't know
13 (72.2%)

Gwen/Morgana?

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Yes
10 (43.5%)

No
9 (39.1%)

I don't know
4 (17.4%)

Ticky?

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Sophia/Vivian
15 (71.4%)

Gwaine/Merlin
7 (33.3%)

Arthur/Percival
12 (57.1%)

Arthur/Gwen
4 (19.0%)

Ticky!
12 (57.1%)

[personal profile] meri 2011-07-21 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Arthur/Gwen is one of those pairings where it almost feels insulting to refer to it as a rarepair

IKR? But in terms of fannish output, again especially not fic, it's not that high up there. Thanks to you I think there's more podfic for Gwen/Morgana then Arthur/Gwen. Seriously, thank you. Makes me want to podfic Arthur/Gwen actually. Will have to get on that.