This week in shipping news – the
wedding of the decade (the decade being the 1920s), Slash and Femslash madness
reach epic finals and Sterek shippers are baking for a cause. Also Glee’s back, new TV = new ships and the earth needs a little romance too. If that doesn’t make sense just click read more and it
will all become clear.
*Spoilers for new Downton Abbey (season 3).
It’s finally happened and I’m not
talking about Mary and Matthew’s wedding on Downton
Abbey (I’ll get to that later). No what I’m talking about is that I am
having to choose between to of my fav ships and it’s like what I imagine
choosing between children would be like… except way worse (that’s a joke Internet,
calm down). That’s right, AfterElton’s
slash madness tournament has reached its epic conclusion and I personally am at
a loss of who to vote for.
After a nail-biting semi-final, which
broke many hearts, Dean and Castiel managed to beat out Sherlock and John… but
only just. As you might guess Sterek won over the adorable Merlin and Arthur, but
not by as much as I thought they would. So really, this competition is anyone’s
to loose. Sterek may be the flavour of the month but Destiel shippers are
nothing to be scoffed at, they’ve been fighting the good fight longer remember.
And then there’s the fact that many people ship them both and for those people
this is a dark dark time.
While I’m pretty sure that Sterek
will take the top honour this time (because people always fight harder when the
possibility of cannon looms over their head. But don’t expect Destiel to bow
out easy, this is going to be a battle to the death and I recommend heading
over to AfterElton and checking out
all the action as it happens. While you’re there you should check out some of
the other articles because it’s a really cool website that you should be
visiting all the time anyway – the same goes for AfterEllen.
While we’re on the subject of AfterEllen – femslash madness is in it’s
final round as well. Faberry powered their way past the original slash couple
Xena and Gabrielle and there was an epic battle between my beloved Swan Queen
and Rizzoli & Isles, with the latter just scrapping into first position. So
now it’s on between the lovely Quinn and Rachel and Rizzoli & Isles!
Anyway, back to some actual TV
because this week we had a wedding… a wedding that was way too long in the
making but well worth the wait. This time I actually am talking about Mary and
Matthew because seriously those two will be the death of me – I was so sure
something would go wrong. You seem shocked, yes that’s
right, here at Pop Culture is Not Art
we do also ship cannon heterosexual couples and Mary and Matthew is at the very
top of the list. Plus I love a wedding! Considering the fact that the whole show has been about getting Matthew and Mary to marry I never thought it would happen... I can't even imagine what horrible things they have in store for us now.
In other news with all the new shows out
and about there are a bunch of new ships that have stolen hearts already.
Probably the most talked about couple is, The
New Normal’s, Bryan and David. They are absolutely adorable (Tumblr seems to think they are the new
Klaine but I’m hoping for more)! All right so they fall into the trap of
stereotypes a little bit, but that happens in sit coms and I’m hoping for a
serious amount of character development… but then again it is
Ryan Murphy so I’m probably wrong. There was even a kind of shout out to
shippers in episode two of The New Normal,
with Bryan (who is apparently a writer) announcing that he was breaking up the
most popular couple just to start a Twitter
war.
Speaking of Ryan Murphy, Glee’s back and its bought relationship
drama for everyone. Anyway, in summary – Mike and Tina broke up, but they’re
still friends. Rachel and Finn are apparently still together even though she’s
in New York flirting with newbie Brody. Kurt and Blaine have decided to try
their hand at the long distance thing, because that always works out so well. Brittana
are also working out the long distance thing even though you can’t scissor over
Skype. The new Rachel aka Marley looks like she’s heading for romance with Puck
the younger although she does have a blonde cheerleader of her very own so you
never know. No idea what’s happening with Sam and Mercedes, but that seems to
have been left by the wayside. And that’s what you missed on Glee.
Back in the land of the Internet,
Jupiter saved Earth from a deadly meteor and if that doesn’t say true love then
I don’t know what does – I just really love Tumblr
OK. Can I ship me with Tumblr? Is that
a thing, can that please be a thing? Also Vhelton (which I told you about last
time) had good week with all kinds of fanart and fic, all because of the
powerhouse that is Sterek.
Speaking of Sterek and the
seriously awesome group of people that love them – Sterek fans are the best and
I’m not just saying that because so many of them have been hanging out here.
They are my fav shippers at the moment, but that might just be because they are
so full of hope and their dreams have not yet been crushed by the powers that
be. Which is why they have decided to begin a campaign to show Teen Wolf’s show runner Jeff Davis just
how many fans want this couple to become canon.
These kind of shipper campaigns
can go incredibly wrong. I normally try to avoid them completely but there is
something that is just so nice about the Sterek Campaign that makes it hard to
stay away from. It seems to be about the love of the show, not about hate –
which is unfortunately usually where these campaigns tend to end up. I’m not
completely in the know as to how this campaign started and what exactly the
goals are but I do know that there seems to be a large amount of people baking
cookies at the moment…
#CookiesforSterek.
As far as I can ascertain there
the plan was to get the hashtag #CookiesforSterek trending on Twitter at 6pm EST on Monday 17th
September and it seems to have worked. Well it has certainly succeeded in
making me crave cookies and some of the baked creations I’ve seen floating
around Tumblr have been pretty
spectacular. The Teen Wolf Tumblr even posted that they craving
cookies – so that’s anawareness win to start with. These Sterek lovers also
earned my respect because they made a point to ask people not to tweet Jeff
Davis directly so that they didn’t clog up his Twitter. After all, it’s always important for all fans to remember
that respect is a two way street.
And it respect wins love because
Jeff Davis tweeted this gem –
Well there you have it lonely
shipper, that’s another instalment of shipping news down. I hope you enjoyed it
and I promise that there will be more variety now that all the TV is returning.
But remember, you can always send any shipping news or tips via Facebook or
Twitter and I’ll be happy to include them.
Keep on shipping. And remember to
keep the discussion going on the Facebook page and in the comments! I love
hearing from you because you are my favourite. No not you.
