Friendship

( I'm extending a hand of compromise and friendship, will you accept it? )

Have a fic list

So, the Shiplympics. We're onto round two and I did write all this up, so here you go. With round one, I was looking at this in three ways.Overall goodness was one factor, but also characterization, which I think ends up penalizing the picture side of things. And then there was how well it sold the pairing itself.

( Forty fics. Most of them were pretty good and you should read them. )

Anyway, some interesting factoids:

About half of the ships were het, over one third were slash and just under one sixth were femslash. Of the winners, the top four were all het, but in total half were het, one fourth were slash and one fourth femslash. (And that's counting John/Rose as het despite being all female in the AU.) It'll be interesting to see how things shake out next round.

Thirty three were ♥, 8 were ♠, and 4 were ♦. Almost of the winners were ♥, as you'd expect ...with the exceptions being two ♦ which placed third and fourth respectively. Weird. One was the same pairing as the first place entry. So, blackrom is not making a good showing here. That might just be coincidence, since as I mentioned people aren't writing it all that differently.

Of the het, all but two were written from the boy's POV, and in so much as the comic entries could be said
to have a POV they trended similarly. I'm curious to see if that continues in the next round.

Apologies for formatting, rich text is the devil but I didn't want to have to code the links myself.