Post by overmore on Feb 28, 2024 13:55:47 GMT
More often than not, i feel there always is a cery specific backsory for how someone starts shipping that first ship when they join a new fandom. It can be longer or shorter but whatever it is, it's sometimes fun to look back at and compare to who you are how as a shipper and how much your tastes in ships have changed.
For me, it was last year pretty much at the start of it. At that point i've been playing IDV for over a year (started during time of reunion) and I haven't interacted with the fandom outside of a few of my friends that played the game already. They all had ships they liked but I never paid much attention as I was there purley for the gameplay aspect and collecting Little Girl's skins. But I kinda had a situation at the end of the year and at the start of it that made me wanna distance myself from the fandom I was in at the time, turning me to play IDV a bit more than usual. I then decided I was gonna main a new character since people didn't appriciate me playing Little GIrl (truth to be told I was kinda bad lol) and I decided to pick up Andrew beucase why not? He looked cute to me and I liked his default skin animations, they were so cute.
Not even two days into that, I thought "Why don't I ship this man with someone?" I will note, I have played "White Tombsone" not even 2 months before this, so the only ships I was really familiar with were the ones featured in that game. To add to that, one of my friends also happened to like them too. Thus, I made the decision to go into the Antodrew tag on ao3 and try out my luck with fics and see if I like it. This was all on 4th January of 2023. On 5th January 2023 I wrote my first fic with them and posted it on ao3. I was so excited as It has been maybe 3 years since the last time I wrote for a different fandom to a degree it was "new year, new fandom" moment. I had so much fun writing something as simple as that fic, it was my firest proper interaction with anything other than occasional fanart of characters that would sometimes show up on my feed.
And now, over a year later I'm still very happy I decided to do that. I do not consider them my favourite ship anymore and the way I wrote them then is not the way I write them now, but they still have a very specail place in my heard beucase it was a stepping stone for me to get into this fandom and go on to create so much stuff I am now prud of, even let myself explore themes I wouldn't even think of in my previous fandom. Very glad it happened <3
What's your story?
For me, it was last year pretty much at the start of it. At that point i've been playing IDV for over a year (started during time of reunion) and I haven't interacted with the fandom outside of a few of my friends that played the game already. They all had ships they liked but I never paid much attention as I was there purley for the gameplay aspect and collecting Little Girl's skins. But I kinda had a situation at the end of the year and at the start of it that made me wanna distance myself from the fandom I was in at the time, turning me to play IDV a bit more than usual. I then decided I was gonna main a new character since people didn't appriciate me playing Little GIrl (truth to be told I was kinda bad lol) and I decided to pick up Andrew beucase why not? He looked cute to me and I liked his default skin animations, they were so cute.
Not even two days into that, I thought "Why don't I ship this man with someone?" I will note, I have played "White Tombsone" not even 2 months before this, so the only ships I was really familiar with were the ones featured in that game. To add to that, one of my friends also happened to like them too. Thus, I made the decision to go into the Antodrew tag on ao3 and try out my luck with fics and see if I like it. This was all on 4th January of 2023. On 5th January 2023 I wrote my first fic with them and posted it on ao3. I was so excited as It has been maybe 3 years since the last time I wrote for a different fandom to a degree it was "new year, new fandom" moment. I had so much fun writing something as simple as that fic, it was my firest proper interaction with anything other than occasional fanart of characters that would sometimes show up on my feed.
And now, over a year later I'm still very happy I decided to do that. I do not consider them my favourite ship anymore and the way I wrote them then is not the way I write them now, but they still have a very specail place in my heard beucase it was a stepping stone for me to get into this fandom and go on to create so much stuff I am now prud of, even let myself explore themes I wouldn't even think of in my previous fandom. Very glad it happened <3
What's your story?
That was a trend with earlier ship names, like marymi, where the ship name itself was interesting. But Norton was also one of my first mains! 
). I don't really think much about Eddrew as much as before but they are definitely a nostalgic pairing. 
