#Multishipping for the win

[daniwib]

[arsenic-catnep]

Wow what an entrance from Castiel.

I do get why people ship destiel it's a good ship and I did feel a little something.

Being a multishipper is the gift that keeps on giving because no matter what I can see my favorite characters get fucked and have angsty romance.

[daniwib]

Its the mark of an interesting character with depth that Tommy has inspired that much passion, even the negative kind. Cardboard cut outs like Ali don’t do that.

I don’t condone it, to be clear. But it is very interesting. Thanks OP and also @beforeastorm for all your hard work!

Proud to say the only true bashing fic I have written is Gerrard bashing which I think we can all agree is warranted.

Bashing Fics in the 9-1-1 Fandom

Inspired by @beforeastorm‘s very neat look at 9-1-1 bashing fics in August and in September 2024, I took another look at the numbers yesterday (23rd January 2025) and… it’s been interesting.

Methods and materials:

For that I selected the 9-1-1 (TV) tag on ao3 while logged into my account and thereby ensuring I would see both public and locked fics; beforeastorm only considered public fics so by god I hope that some of the increases can be explained by that. Then I used the Include filter function to search for [Character Name] Bashing. Where this returned nothing I employed the Search within result function to search for “[character name] bashing”, trying out variations (last or first or nickname). To double-check I also did this search for characters with established bashing tags, using the Exclude filter to ensure that I would not count any fic twice.

Some characters have a bashing tag for themselves and a couple bashing tag. For example: if you search for Margaret Buckley Bashing, you will be offered two tag: Margaret Buckley Bashing and Margaret Buckley and Phillip Buckley Bashing. As far as I could tell, searching for the individual bashing tag also always counts the couple bashing tag, so the couple bashing tags could be disregarded. A list of the characters I looked at is under the cut.

The numbers were collected in an excel file and assigned the characters categories: main (meaning main adult character), family, love interest and other. I also took note of the gender. I did some analysis in excel before having the smart idea that I might as well use this as a training exercise for R (and I am very bad at R).

Disclaimer: this will not include all bashing fics because sadly some people are not familiar with tagging or love letting people run into a fic they will not enjoy. Also while I much prefer it when people tag bashing, some are overly careful and may use bashing tags when not really needed. Still, I much prefer that to people not tagging.

Results:

Disappointing but hardly surprising at this point: the extremely dubious honour of being the most bashed character goes to Tommy Kinard with 660 bashing fics to his name. That obviously makes him the most bashed character of the love interest category, followed by Ana Flores (241) and then Taylor Kelly (118 ^^). The most bashed characters of the family category are the Buckley parents (347 and 325) followed by the Diaz parents (238 and 176), with the mothers being given more bashing fics than the fathers. In the other category, Vincent Gerrard leads with the 66 times his bashing tag was used. Chase Mackey is in third place with 26 fics, and in second place is the Firehouse 118 Crew (45) which probably could be rather counted to the main character category.

Which brings us to that category. Chimney has been bashed in 317 fics, making him the most bashed main character. Followed by Maddie with 223 fics and Bobby with 163. Out of all the main adult characters, Buck is the only one without an established bashing tag. There are 7 fics out there that you can find if you employ a variation of queries with his name + bashing; that is if I have made no mistake. Because honestly? Finding Buck bashing fics is hard. Athena and Buck are the only main characters with less than 10 bashing fics to their name.

Fig. 1: This fucking barplot was a pain to make but here we are! Characters on the y-axis and number of fics that use respective bashing tag on the x-axis. The total number of respective fics are shown next to the bars; colour indicates the category the characters have been placed in. Top: continuous x-axis to allow for an easier overview of the proportions of the bars, bottom: x-axis with a break to allow a closer look.

Dishonourable mention: why the fuck would anybody write a fic with Christopher bashing?

Honourable mentions: Boeing and dolphin bashing. It did make the otherwise pretty depression task of data collection much better.

Gender-wise there are more bashing fics about men (54.3%) than there about women (44.3%) (of course I did not look at every character so I will have missed a few bashing fics). If nobody was writing Tommy bashing fics, that would be flipped (male: 43.0%, female: 55.3%).

Fig. 2: A lovely pie-chart showing the bashing fics per gender, with male subdivided into Tommy, and the other male characters.

Which brings us to the tragedy that is the hate this fandom has for Tommy Kinard. If you add up all the bashing tags I found (which does not equal fics, some people are happily bashing away in their fics), then his account for about 20%. Which is insane, wtf.

Discussion:

This was really depressing tbh. I showed the bar plot to my sister and she asked me what bashing is. She’s been in fandom for years; she was in the supernatural fandom and has read fics and somehow I still had to explain bashing to her. So really: yay for us, this fandom really is something.

 If you look at beforeastorm’s tally from August, you’ll see that Tommy bashing fics began popping up in April 2024 and since then he has become the most bashed character (out of those I looked at, I’m pretty sure that this holds true).

Now you may be wondering why these characters are being bashed. Warning: the following part is based on my opinions. I did not read the fics of all 3291 bashing tag instances that I found.

In some cases it seems pretty straight forward: Vincent Gerrard, Chase Mackey, Doug Kendall and Olivia Ortiz need no further explanation. Other “villains” such as Jeffrey Hudson and Jonah Greenway have no bashing fics that I could find though.

The Buckley and Diaz parents getting bashed is also not surprising. Can’t say that I’m wild about it since my experience with reading fics that tag bashing was usually “here’s a random evil person I made up and then gave the name of an existing character”, but I understand where people are coming from.

Now the main characters… I’m just gonna say it: it’s people who have wronged Buck – according to some of the fandom at least. Chimney’s crime: the punch (no, I’m not defending it, but some people really have run with this). Maddie’s crime: not telling Buck about Daniel and then wanting to talk to him about it when he didn’t want to. Bobby’s crime: not allowing Buck back to work. Hen’s crime: idk, being Chimney’s bestie?

As for Eddie: I guess he’s a misogynist now, if you ask some people? Idk, it’s not like I read the summaries of all the fics because there are too many and also just no.

The love interests – which yes, in this case all happen to be Buck and Eddie’s love interests, imagine my surprise – happen to be “in the way” of shipping I guess. I did look at other love interest or ex-relationships and could find nothing.

Tommy’s crime: loving Evan.

Conclusion:

If you write bashing please keep tagging it.

Appendix:

All the characters I looked at: characters with no bashing fics I could find, characters with an established bashing tag, characters with no established bashing tag but bashing fics can be found

Main adult characters:

Athena Grant, Bobby Nash, Hen Wilson, Chimney Han, Evan Buckley, Eddie Diaz, Maddie Buckley.

Recurring characters, family:

Michael Grant, David Hale, May Grant, Harry Grant, Beatrice and Samuel Carter, Emmett Washington;

Marcy Nash, Tim Nash;

Karen Wilson, Denny Wilson, Antonia Wilson, Nia and Mara;

Albert Han, Chimney’s father/Sang Han, The Lees, Jee-Yun Buckley-Han;

Margaret Buckley, Phillip Buckley, Daniel Buckley, Doug Kendall;

Christopher Diaz, Isabel Diaz, Helena Diaz, Ramon Diaz.

Recurring characters, love interests:

Tommy Kinard, Natalia Dollenmeyer, Taylor Kelly, Lucy Donato, Ali Martin, Abby Clark;

Kim, Marisol, Ana Flores, Shannon Diaz;

Eva Mathis;

Tatiana.

Recurring characters, others:

Firehouse 118 Crew Bashing;

Chase Mackey, Vincent Gerrard, Jonah Greenway, Jeffrey Hudson, Councilwoman Olivia Ortiz;

Josh Russo, Lena Bosko, Ravi Panikkar, Claudette Collins, Brad Torrance;

Boeing, Dolphin.

[mango-mya]

Collection of Twitter/Tumblr things with the little freaks that I hate (+ my OC because I'm craaazaaaay!!!!!!!)

[strangeasf]

I really truly don't get this whole bucktommy and buddie rivalry.. I mean I love buddie and I really like bucktommy and don't understand the problem of liking and rooting for both. yeah, at the same time. what happened, everyone forgot about multishipping? why can't two ships coexist in peace??

[bucketspammer4life]

Hi. Wii Aran x Narcis Please.

request time yayyy (i havent done this ship like.. ever so this will be fun, also this is so ominous it sounds like your asking me to collect your pages/nm)

- they sometimes wrestle (NOT IN THAT WAY GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE GUTTER PLEASE) for fun

- Aran sometimes steals narcis's perfume, narcis pretends to be annoyed by it but he steals arans perfume in return since he thinks its kinda cute in a way

- narcis sometimes watches drama series, aran always says hes not invested in it but he will be asking narcis what happened next

- of course they gossip together, its unescapable

- they sometimes whip out old embarrasing pictures of each other during arguments, aran could be going off on narcis about something and narcis would send a picture of him when he had a buzzcut

- narcis watches cooking shows like hes a dad watching a football match and sometimes aran joins in on the angry screaming even though he has no idea how to cook properly

- Aran has a variety of nicknames for narcis, ranging from affectionate to a name so horrid it'll make your teeth get sucked into your gums

- narcis sleeps in the fanciest gown ever while aran sleeps with jeans and a random shirt, narcis is concerned because who sleeps in jeans

[littencloud9]

nobody warned me about isagi and chigiri. WTF WAS THAT!!!

[nana-mizu-shiki]

This was amazing and I want to share with the world. Applauded my generosity. Bow to your ruler of fics.

Idk....

Spider Vs Bird

 I worked a long time on this fic. I really liked working on it though and I hope you enjoy it

 Peter met Marinette when they were six-years-old. She had been sent to camp in New York. She had been scared to be so far away from home, and while fluent in English spoke with a heavy accent that made other kids look at her funny.

Keep reading

[coffeeastronaut]

ALTHOUGH I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU PEOPLE FOR HAVING FUCKING O.R. OF ALL EPISODES WIN THE MASH POLL. I HOPE YOU ALL DIE OF THAT VICTIM COMPLEX HANGING SO HEAVY AROUND YOUR NECKS!!!!!!

[fighting-these-demons]

I want to be bitter about Manami letting Shinkai the Younger go after Onoda that way but really he's just following orders and that's admirable in a team sport.

BUT I REALLY REALLY WANT TO BE.

[sailormew4]

Happy International Lesbian Day!

Here are some of my favorite Sapphic Ships and awards to them. (Reblog and add your favorite sapphic ship with your own award to them)

Lumity! Congrats for being one of the few Sapphic Ships that ended up being Canon with No Margin to Deny It. You get the Fuck Disney Award!

Anthy and Utena for being the THEE Yuri Ship for Anime. Creating so many tropes as well. Also for being the start of Pink x Purple Ship for me. You get the Trope Starter Award

Bubbline! For being the Slowest Queer Coded Turn Canon in Western Animation. Award for "My Ex Keeps Missing Me, But Her Aim Is Getting Better!"

TogaChako! Congrats for breaking the internet this past weekend. Award for Making Me Scream, Cry, and Throw Up Everytime I See You (I will make them Canon every chance I get in fics)

Catradora! Congrats for being my introduction to Childhood Friends to Enemies to Lovers Ship (this definitely didn't affect my future ships at all). Award for Winning a War with Gay Love!

HaruMichi! Congrats for finally having your love story shown without censors for western audiences. You get the "And Censorship Will Call Them..." Award

Korrasami! Congrats on jump-starting Sapphic (and maybe even LGBT relationships) in Western animation. We salute you! You get the Hand Hold as an I Love You Award

And here's a surprise contender. ZakuMint from Tokyo Mew Mew. You gave the Vibes in 2000s and now you're fully Gay Coded Congrats! You get the Upgrades People Upgrades Award!

It's not as surprising but needs to be mentioned. But here's a Liana and Alexa from Barbie and the Diamond Castle with the award of "Baby's First Gay Coded Movie"

MadoHomu for being my first Doomed Yuri Ship... pray for their safety in the next movie. You get the "Was It Casual" Award.

Harlivy for showing that Men (specifically men like Joker) ain't shit and healing from toxic relationships. You get the Award also for "Be Gay, Do Crimes"

Sashannarcy: To show you what's better than one girlfriend? TWO Girlfriends. You get the "She Has Two Hands" Award

And we'll be closing out with Rupphire! The first Sapphic Wedding I watched on screen. May you live as Garnet forever happily!

And Honorable Mention to Kugisaki Nobara! For being the Most Lesbian of Lesbian to the point where I knew to multiship her with Maki, Mai, and many more. You get the award of "Most Girlfriends" Award

Along with Velma Dinkley who had the Best Lesbian Coded to Canon Lesbian Development. Shout Out to being played by Lesbian Jesus Hayley Kiyoko in a live action!

[galacticghoste]

🤣🤣🤣

You are a Shadamy fan that's what

I have officially gotten another one of my irl friends into Shadamy and I'm so Fucking happy rn AHHHHHHH

They even have these old Shadow and Amy plushies and they told me those two were the first ever sonic plushies they ever own from the arcade and they just had them sitting on a shelf together all this time even before they got me into sonic

And now that I have made them into shadamy fan they just found it funny that they were unintentionally keeping Shadow and Amy together all this time.

IT WAS MENT TO BE!!!

My friend made them kiss it made me Scream!!!

/\/\/\

Me slowly getting everyone to vibe with my special intrest hehehe there is no escape

[rainbowchaox]

I wish people just were like me. And accepted the Arcane Trifecta in your hearts.

Caitvi: Season 2 had it issues and I wish CL gave Caitlyn more of a concrete arc. But they were peak in season 1. And fucking hell no matter if you ship or not. They finally gave us a lesbian sex scene! Bubbline, Korrasami, and Catradora all walked so they could ran. That’s so important especially now in such an uncertain times with actual censorship going down about the gay community. Plus it’s not like fandom never had a season that sucked. That’s why Fix it fics exist. SO STOP BEING ANNOYING about not liking the ship. No one is forcing you to like it. Let the lesbians have their fun and make cute fanart or fics.

Jayvik: You guys know I ship them so much. And they are so important to me. Not only is it a beautiful love story (which if you see it as queer platonic you are just as valid) but it’s gay love story where one is disabled and not babied or demeaned for it. Whether they will ever become canon or not. You can’t say Jayvik is not a fandom phenomenon. Disabled people see themselves in the ship. Gay men see themselves in the ship. ASEXUALS SEE THEMSELVES IN THE SHIP. (That’s me I’m asexual and making them both Demi). I fully hope they do become canon because I think people deserve it. ESSPECIALLY how rare it is for any disabled character to have a romance much less a queer one.

Timebomb: I won’t lie I never saw it until season 2. There’s something so precious in two broken childhood friends finding each other and falling in love. I normally never ship straight ships. But Timebomb is special. Under bruises and blisters they love eachother. People need to see enemies to lovers is a trope for a reason. They also super cute! I love all the fanart I see.

Which all these ships again show me what arcane was about. LOVE. Arcane was always about love. Ship what you wanna ship. Each dynamic has their charms. Everything always been about love. It’s why I adore Arcane. Love is literally the backbone of the show. Every mistake and every win comes from love. (So please everyone accept the trifecta or multishipping in your heart and stop having stupid ship wars). Each ship is valid. And most importantly have fun.

[tsbs-shipfessions]

Okay so. Ruin x KC as old married couple. Can be both in ther chill side. Both having done bad things and just understanding each other. Romantic or even platonic. I think they would get along.

Also Eclipse x Ruin x Solar, a.k.a Totality ship is cute. Poly ships for the win! I prefer the version before Ruin snapped the 5000 dimension, but after is a good too, because angst potentional and forgivness. Same as for the ship above, platonic or romantic I find it cute either way.

Multishipping for the win!

[watchyourbuck]

The problem isn't multishipping, the problem is that if everyone hypes tuck up, they're not going to do buddie bc then they'll argue they've fulfilled the fandoms need. I get it, I do, but I don't agree with u and I just need ppl to understand why it's a problem. I know it's shipping and I know it's for fun but actions have consequences and I feel like people don't know what they're doing and clearly have no idea how hard we fought to even get bi buck.... That's all. But is OK if u don't agree with me too

Listen im gonna keep this short. There’s no way Buddie can get overridden by other ship, queer or straight. It’s too massive, too imposing. I mean take a look at the asks I get telling me to fuck off bc I even mentioned Tommy lmao.

Tim Minear knows what type of relationship we see between Buck and Eddie, and at the end of the day he’s the man running the show, not the actor, not the network, not even us.

They can’t throw them in a mixer and suddenly put them both as queer on the same episode, same day, same realization. They may not be real but they’re telling a story, and it has to be plausible. If you ask me I think eventually they’ll make it canon, today just feels different than the last six seasons.

Hyping bucktommy up won’t do much more than maybe keep the character around, or take longer or a different route in their relationship. Either way, love, canon bi Buck is a huge accomplishment, and right now that’s what we should focus on. It’s a huge win regardless of any ship.

[mysorokuheart]

Yesss I honestly don’t care about canon content myself

"My ship is better than your ship because it has more canon content"

Bitch I do not care if your ship has more "canon" content, leave me tf alone and let me cry tears of joy over my crumbs in peace.