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where do we stand on fics where the merryshipping is a background relationship or something to that affect? because not only have i encountered recent edgecases on ao3 within the past year or so, but there's a merryshipping x reader fanfiction on ao3 that is the reason ao3 has the term merryshipping archived at all, but the main relationships are all the x reader ships? but it IS merryshipping. do i archive that?

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context for it being "the most popular old eb5 fanfiction" for new followers: ive found multiple threads of people discussing this fic outside of ff.net and praising it to high heaven- by multiple people its been considered the best op fanfiction there is. its 55 positive reviews speak for itself really

going to be honest with you got a bit scared tonight thinking about how easily things are deleted off the internet. i decided to make a personal copy of 5s bad company but after deciding to do that i just thought why not upload it to ao3? I'll archive the rest of the merryshipping fics if its ever announced ff.net goes down, promise. i just am the most emotionally attached to this one. its selfish. but im a selfish guy.

i just want people outside of tumblr to know that this is our origin point and this is the fanfiction that sold eb5 to people. i think that context is important. and has never not been incredibly important to how we view this ship.

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going to be honest with you got a bit scared tonight thinking about how easily things are deleted off the internet. i decided to make a personal copy of 5s bad company but after deciding to do that i just thought why not upload it to ao3? I'll archive the rest of the merryshipping fics if its ever announced ff.net goes down, promise. i just am the most emotionally attached to this one. its selfish. but im a selfish guy.

i just want people outside of tumblr to know that this is our origin point and this is the fanfiction that sold eb5 to people. i think that context is important. and has never not been incredibly important to how we view this ship.

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this is tenuously related but im doing some research on what i can find of spiderflowers comments left in livejournal communities- the stuff account purges cant wipe. spiderflower was a bisexual(?) (she talks about liking both men and women, although she ids also with the word "lesbian") woman, she cared a lot about how fanfiction was written and criticized the use of heteronormativity in femslash. (link separation) she didn't like when fandoms became all about yaoi shipping and dismissed female characters- she's talked about finding sexist nge fans annoying. (her favourite character is asuka!)

i know this isn't directly related but i'd like to know what influences lead to spiderflowers assumed creation of merryshipping and what lead her to write 5s bad company since i cant ask her, can i? and maybe youre curious too. control f "spiderflower" to get to her segments of the linked journal entries.

for those who havent read it, heres her fanfiction.net bio, which also advertises her bisexuality openly. (her bisexuality for usopp and nami god she's the most relatable woman on earth)

now this will never happen. but if you ARE livejournal user spiderflower fanfiction.net user guardian1 please i love you so much im literally your biggest fan please can we talk i have so many questions

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i forgot, i really want to know who came up with merryshipping as a term. i wonder if it was spiderflower (the author of fives bad company) and linadarkstar (the owners of the merryshipping livejournal site) while i have no real evidence for this, the merryshipping community on lj seems to imply the community was made for only them originally. this is under the "about" section (which i didn't know existed haha livejournal is so easy to navigate)

these two ladies are currently our only suspects. both of their accounts are purged, but the way this is phrased makes me believe they came up with both the lj and the concept, because if they didn't and there was a preexisting following wouldn't they expect more users to join almost immediately?

can we credit spiderflower and her friend with both the reason we have old content of them- 5s bad companys entire legacy and the name? currently there's no decisive evidence. but i have found no evidence to the contrary, and this is the closest thing we have to evidence of who came up with the name. tentatively i would credit the both of them.

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today was a successful day but the only working theory i have is deviantart sucks. absolute dick for searching things up, so i cant find any of the old stuff that must be posted on there. none of my searches on deviantart even reveal syblatortues art

evidently i can be complimented into finding more stuff

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chapter 11: A Serious Question

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fanart is rough because i wish i could find more of it but we have a decent amount now and are arguably more hurting for fanfiction which is way easier to find. but it bugs me that we have so much fanart now and less fanfiction, and in the past it was the other way around? something doesnt add up. im convinced i havent found the site where all the merryshipping fanart is, because it cant be just deviantart user syblatortue. if you have any ideas at all speak up because i need to get to the bottom of why this is

evidently i can be complimented into finding more stuff

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evidently i can be complimented into finding more stuff

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shady stories (fanfiction, deviantart)

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Because I'm a rebel, that's why.

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Sleep

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"Request for the Mugiwara boys at the beach (Luffy skateboarding, Sanji surfing, etc.) and I added Nami because I'm a Merryship addict."

by SybLaTorture (deviantart)

by SybLaTortue (deviantart)

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@menocider <333 i love when i get kind comments on this blog. so much man. its no problem and i love my work and i love that people enjoy what ive done. thank you

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there is, to my knowledge, nothing on quotev, which is odd. (the timelines match up) but i have no idea how quotev works it would be appreciated if someone who did searched the term merryship/merryshipping and tell me the result. (or just told me how to use quotev) google isnt as reliable as id like and the in-site search engines tend to yield more results

im sorry to inform everybody that there exists a deleted vampire diaries x one piece merryshipping fanfiction that we will never see please take a few minutes in your day for our fallen ally