fandom meme?

[melannen]

It's a weird day, y'all, and it's been awhile since I've done something like this, so: have a shipping meme.

Give me a fandom in the comments and I will tell you which pairing or poly ship in that fandom:

1. Is the forever ship of my heart
2. Is the one I don't have a lot of feelings about but know I can always go back to for long comfort fic
3. Has the best porn
4. Is just NO

(Caveat: fandom must be large enough to have significant amounts of fic for at least four pairings)
(Caveat 2: it does not have to be a fandom you have heard me talk about much or recently, because let's face it, if it has that much fic I have probably read enough to be able to answer these, although that is not a dare.)
(Caveat 3: all answers to 4 are in the spirit of ykinmkato because I am enough of an Old to believe in that.)

Comments

[staranise]

I agree all around. :D

[melannen]

:D My first thought for #4 was staranise&tumblr kids but then I decided I really shouldn't judge that for you.

[staranise]

I'm living out of a tent on Pillowfort right now, so I kind of agree with you.

[melannen]

Ooh, is Pillowfort worth camping in, do you think? I've been disappointed too many times to have put in any effort to get in on the early beta this time 'round, but gosh I hope the thing that will outdo Tumblr shows up soon.

[staranise]

I'm really worried about their sustainability as a business--I'm worried that they don't have as many people writing code as they need, and that they don't have a solid enough revenue scheme to survive and expand--but these things are mainly because proof of them hasn't been shoved in my face, not because I have seen definitive proof that such things don't exist. However, its priorities in terms of features seems to be pretty spot-on with what fandom wants.

[melannen]

Hmm, yeah, that was the real problem with the last one to go around (I don't even remember what it was called now! The one that spent all its venture capital sending people pizza and stickers.) Good intentions, really bad at running a business and allocating resources well.

[staranise]

What I can gather is that Pillowfort is someone's pet project, which she's been working on for three years out of a basement/garage/whatever in Austin; she's got $5000 in crowdfunding for Indiegogo, but isn't soliciting venture capital. It's set up deliberately as a by-fandom for-fandom project. I would imagine that their dream would to be like Dreamwidth, run off users paying for premium services. Which is doable and laudable--I just hope its owner (Julia Baritz) can do it.