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mark_asphodelSo. Jugdral pairings.
Actually I wasn't looking at pairings, I was looking at who tagged their pairings, either via A X B or an AB mushed-up name, which is kind of the J!fandom FE equivalent of the cutesy names you see in, IDK, Golden Sun or Pokemon or Harry Potter fandoms.
The thing is, it quickly became clear most fen on Pixiv don't do that (though it seems to be a LOT more common with individual shrines/blogs/archives). For instance, the monstrously popular matchup of Ulster/Julia has all of three tagged entries on Pixiv.
Overall, it seems to be more of an identifying tag within a subgroup, if that makes any sense? A "here be yaoi" kind of thing for, say, "Ced X Arthur" (4 entries) or a way of communicating who you're sticking with some highly popular female character (Tinny, Ayra, Raquesis).
TL;DR-- only a small percentage of shippers for any given Jugdral pairing seem to do the name-combination thing or any kind of pairing tag, and the shippers that use it more often are IMO kind of promoting a "brand identity" that may be a hangover of old, contentious shipping wars. Then again, the Seliph/Julia shippers, who know they're being naughty, don't tag.
Also... some names maybe don't sound good together? Some tags are definitely catchier than others. But overall it's not so much a metric of what pairings are popular as which shippers are in-your-face about it, I think.
Finn/Raquie: 51 (see above comments on shipwars and brand identity)
Seliph/Lana: 45
Ced/Tinny: 36
Cuan/Ethlyn: 34
Leif/Nanna: 26
Sigurd/Diadora: 25
Tiltyu/Azel: 22
Lewyn/Fury: 17 (includes "Lewyn X Fury" data)
Eldigan/Raquie: 15
Arthur/Fee: 12
Beo/Raquie: 9
Lex/Ayra: 9
Ulster/Lana: 7
Ares/Nanna: 7
Holyn/Ayra: 7
Finn/Ayra: 6
Lester/Patty: 6
Shanan/Patty: 5
Midayle/Aideen: 5
Ulster/Larcei: 4 (Not in a romantic sense, but the tag exists)
Johan/Larcei: 4
Shanan/Larcei: 4
Arthur/Ced: 4
Ced/Leen: 4
Ulster/Julia: 3 (Do not be fooled. This is very popular.)
Noish/Ayra: 3
Aideen/Jamka: 2
Noish/Tiltyu: 1 (Plus two more untagged pieces, no really)
The other thing I learned is that everyone gets shipped with Tinny. Everyone. Still, I couldn't seem to find an ArthurTinny tag that equates to the UlsterLarcei one, though, despite that being a highly popular subject.
Also, Lex/Tiltyu seems really, really UNpopular in J!fandom, at least as Pixiv goes. I looked through the whole Tiltyu tag and I don't think I saw anything that struck me as bonafide Lex/Tiltyu-- just a couple of OT3s with Azel.
Actually I wasn't looking at pairings, I was looking at who tagged their pairings, either via A X B or an AB mushed-up name, which is kind of the J!fandom FE equivalent of the cutesy names you see in, IDK, Golden Sun or Pokemon or Harry Potter fandoms.
The thing is, it quickly became clear most fen on Pixiv don't do that (though it seems to be a LOT more common with individual shrines/blogs/archives). For instance, the monstrously popular matchup of Ulster/Julia has all of three tagged entries on Pixiv.
Overall, it seems to be more of an identifying tag within a subgroup, if that makes any sense? A "here be yaoi" kind of thing for, say, "Ced X Arthur" (4 entries) or a way of communicating who you're sticking with some highly popular female character (Tinny, Ayra, Raquesis).
TL;DR-- only a small percentage of shippers for any given Jugdral pairing seem to do the name-combination thing or any kind of pairing tag, and the shippers that use it more often are IMO kind of promoting a "brand identity" that may be a hangover of old, contentious shipping wars. Then again, the Seliph/Julia shippers, who know they're being naughty, don't tag.
Also... some names maybe don't sound good together? Some tags are definitely catchier than others. But overall it's not so much a metric of what pairings are popular as which shippers are in-your-face about it, I think.
Finn/Raquie: 51 (see above comments on shipwars and brand identity)
Seliph/Lana: 45
Ced/Tinny: 36
Cuan/Ethlyn: 34
Leif/Nanna: 26
Sigurd/Diadora: 25
Tiltyu/Azel: 22
Lewyn/Fury: 17 (includes "Lewyn X Fury" data)
Eldigan/Raquie: 15
Arthur/Fee: 12
Beo/Raquie: 9
Lex/Ayra: 9
Ulster/Lana: 7
Ares/Nanna: 7
Holyn/Ayra: 7
Finn/Ayra: 6
Lester/Patty: 6
Shanan/Patty: 5
Midayle/Aideen: 5
Ulster/Larcei: 4 (Not in a romantic sense, but the tag exists)
Johan/Larcei: 4
Shanan/Larcei: 4
Arthur/Ced: 4
Ced/Leen: 4
Ulster/Julia: 3 (Do not be fooled. This is very popular.)
Noish/Ayra: 3
Aideen/Jamka: 2
Noish/Tiltyu: 1 (Plus two more untagged pieces, no really)
The other thing I learned is that everyone gets shipped with Tinny. Everyone. Still, I couldn't seem to find an ArthurTinny tag that equates to the UlsterLarcei one, though, despite that being a highly popular subject.
Also, Lex/Tiltyu seems really, really UNpopular in J!fandom, at least as Pixiv goes. I looked through the whole Tiltyu tag and I don't think I saw anything that struck me as bonafide Lex/Tiltyu-- just a couple of OT3s with Azel.
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Date: 2013-06-09 03:29 pm (UTC)Lyn: "I'd sympathize with you more if you didn't look like jailbait."
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Date: 2013-06-09 03:33 pm (UTC)