You can breath a sigh of relief because the femslash and slash
madness tournaments have finally come to an end with Faberry and Sterek crowned
victors. To be honest the end results were pretty much what I expected –
although I thought Swan Queen would make the femslash final – but the whole
thing was so much fun that it doesn’t really matter. The fact is that the end
of this competition has left an aching hole inside my heart and I need
something to fill it.
There are still a couple of bits of exciting news to keep the
adrenaline up until the news seasons of our favourite shows get into full
swing. For starters, AfterElton (who
is now our favourite website ever) managed to get a lovely response to slash
madness from the gift himself Jeff Davis. Davis acknowledged the fans heart felt
battle in a sweet statement:
Teen
Wolf fans in general are superfans, but the Stereks are no doubt the
Alphas of the fandom. Thank you so much for the support!
(Source)
I’m sure you’re starting to understand why fans refer to him as a
gift – still I would caution any young fangirls on getting their hearts too
caught on the idea of Sterek becoming canon. Queer-baiting happens, and I’ve
been hurt before. As much as I would to see the relationship between Stiles and
Derek explored, I wouldn’t want Jeff Davis to do anything he doesn’t believe is
right for the story and I doubt you would either. That said you should totally
keep fighting for your ship because caring about things and getting involves is
what makes fandom so awesome besides you never know.
See what happens when I don’t have competition running through my
veins… I get deep. It’s like I got drunk off the slash madness and this is me
at the end of the night cornering some poor bastard (that’s you) to have a
D&M.
Whatever let’s think about the future, because things are happening
that will hopefully satisfy all your slash needs. First of all you have the
return of most of your favourite TV shows (we have a while to wait for Teen Wolf Season 3 unfortunately), which
means there will be lots of new shippy moments (and even some new ships) to
talk about here. I just love the moment before new seasons start, everything is
so full of hope before we are all crushed in to piles of emotion that are
unable to express ourselves through anything other than keyboard smashing.
Also, our new favourite website aka AfterElton, is going to be starting their own weekly round up of
all this slash called oddly enough “The Shipping News”. It’s weirdly familiar, I know. But it’s
actually awesome because there is more than enough shipping fun to go around. In
fact, I kind of ship me with AfterElton
(insert - Obama-its-a-law.gif)… I know I am going to end up with angry Vhelton
shippers on my doorstep but it’s worth it.
Anyway, it’s not really over, it’s never over as long as it’s in
you’re heart… no seriously though AfterEllen
and AfterElton have decided to
combine forces to work out whether slash or femslash rule the roost. They are
going to have a final deciding match between ultimate champs Faberry and Sterek
to find out which couple is actually the greatest non-cannon queer ship ever! And
if you think it’s going to be an easy fight because AfterElton’s poll got a lot more votes than AfterEllen’s remember that Faberry beat out Destiel in the EOnline couples poll – so watch out
Sterek fans, those Faberry girls can vote!
Finally, because you have all fought so hard for this (go on give
yourselves a pat on the back) I am going to count down the top ten shippy
moments for both Faberry and Sterek. I’m open to suggestions (and bribes) so if
you want a certain moment on the list comment here, tweet me or hit up the
Facebook page with your argument as to why it should be included.
That’s all for now. Try to stay afloat while I’m gone and don’t
forget to send me any shipping news!
