the thing about cracking open a long-established popular ship tag on ao3 is that it allows you to be extraordinarily picky, and i think it must be the closest thing i will ever experience to being filthy rich. i scroll along at super speed like no today i am only interested in fics with this precise range of words and one of these three tags. only authors i’ve heard of, please. hmm, i suppose i could consider an unknown quantity given its apparent popularity with the people, but… no, no, this summary doesn’t do it for me. no particular reason, it’s just… eh, i don’t need to explain myself. bring me 50 more like this for me to choose from and we’ll see.
someone just lamented that their new pairing has only 5000 works (“where’s the rest of them?”) which is approximately the size of the pairing i was celebrating in the original post, and it really threw into relief that it’s impossible for us to even conceptualize the extravagance of a true scrooge mcduck fandom if we’ve never been in one. i am a reasonably well-off dentist who takes her family to cancun once a year.
state of the union update at 45k. my unscientific analysis reports a fairly even breakdown between:
people crying in the gutter
people crying in a 2-bedroom bungalow
the nouveaux riches (steddie fans)
these guys:
bonus shout out to:
very picky people crying from their summer home in the hamptons
