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@byebyebriar hey, sorry for the long time to response. I agree that the excitement for woc/woc shipping is real and genuine. I think Trini/Kimberly is a good ship! while writing this reply, I started looking at stuff on the AO3 and honestly it seems like there’s a significant factor of… the movie’s primary fandom coming from migratory femslash fandom rather than power rangers fandom.
I would agree that it’s somewhat surprising there’s not more het considering power rangers fandom has always run high pretty high on F/M - the AO3’s main Power Rangers tag has 993 works tagged F/M to 1003 tagged M/M. I feel like the tone of the franchise generally precludes the male characters being Awful To Women, and provides a lot of solid male/female interaction, both canonically romantic and otherwise. I think both of these factors lend themselves to high levels of het shipping.
however, I think the (2017) fic-writing fandom is mostly pretty separate from the fandom(s) for the yearly TV shows. there are definitely people I’ve seen around in show fandom producing (2017) content, but a lot of them seem more like dedicated femslash fans - no other (non-2017) power rangers fanfic on their accounts but fanfic for the 100, supergirl, carmilla, legend of korra, fifth harmony, ghostbusters, pitch perfect, person of interest, tomb raider, etc. it would make sense that they’re not suddenly writing non-femslash now that they’re into power rangers (2017)
that said, I think that (2017) fanfic that focuses on the boys at all disproportionately focuses on Jason. he’s got 197 fics, more than Billy or Zack, and Jason/Billy, Jason/Zack, and Jason/Kimberly are all in the top 10 ships. Billy/Zack, on the other hand, has an astounding four fics, exactly one of which is actually Billy/Zack-centric.
so basically, I think that the migratory femslash fandom is what it is, and the non-femslash fandom is really dropping the ball by failing to produce Billy-focused or Zack-focused content.
stats were taken on May 4, 2017
@byebyebriar hey, sorry for the long time to response. I agree that the excitement for woc/woc shipping is real and genuine. I think Trini/Kimberly is a good ship! while writing this reply, I started looking at stuff on the AO3 and honestly it seems like there’s a significant factor of… the movie’s primary fandom coming from migratory femslash fandom rather than power rangers fandom.
I would agree that it’s somewhat surprising there’s not more het considering power rangers fandom has always run high pretty high on F/M - the AO3’s main Power Rangers tag has 993 works tagged F/M to 1003 tagged M/M. I feel like the tone of the franchise generally precludes the male characters being Awful To Women, and provides a lot of solid male/female interaction, both canonically romantic and otherwise. I think both of these factors lend themselves to high levels of het shipping.
however, I think the (2017) fic-writing fandom is mostly pretty separate from the fandom(s) for the yearly TV shows. there are definitely people I’ve seen around in show fandom producing (2017) content, but a lot of them seem more like dedicated femslash fans - no other (non-2017) power rangers fanfic on their accounts but fanfic for the 100, supergirl, carmilla, legend of korra, fifth harmony, ghostbusters, pitch perfect, person of interest, tomb raider, etc. it would make sense that they’re not suddenly writing non-femslash now that they’re into power rangers (2017)
that said, I think that (2017) fanfic that focuses on the boys at all disproportionately focuses on Jason. he’s got 197 fics, more than Billy or Zack, and Jason/Billy, Jason/Zack, and Jason/Kimberly are all in the top 10 ships. Billy/Zack, on the other hand, has an astounding four fics, exactly one of which is actually Billy/Zack-centric.
so basically, I think that the migratory femslash fandom is what it is, and the non-femslash fandom is really dropping the ball by failing to produce Billy-focused or Zack-focused content.
stats were taken on May 4, 2017
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