#canon ship data

[buffydataviz]

BTVS ships episode count review

I was thinking about Buffy's 3 main ships (to me): Bangel v. Spuffy v. Fuffy. I was wondering how many episodes (BTVS or ATS) where each ship has scenes together. Then inspired by these two polls I decided to add in two other non-Buffy ships: Gethan and Spangel.

Kudos to the Fuffy and Gethan shippers, who are working with not a TON of episodes with scenes together. Especially Gethan shippers, who only have 4 canon episodes! To be fair, Spangel fans only had 13 until S5 of ATS.

Summary ship episode count: Spuffy (Spike x Buffy): 71 Bangel (Buffy x Angel): 49 Spangel (Spike x Angel): 35 Fuffy (Faith x Buffy): 21 Gethan (Giles x Ethan): 4

Any blatant negative ship comments, like calling a specific ship indecent will get you blocked. Ship and let ship. Other comments welcome.

Full details under the cut!

What's the Universe? The TV Buffyverse. (BTVS TV or ATS TV eps, the comics and books don’t count.)

How to start? I started with the pre-count. The pre-count is episodes where both characters in the ship appeared.

Spuffy pre-count: 96 (inc. 0 on ATS) Bangel pre-count: 56 (inc. 2 on ATS) Spangel pre-count: 42 (inc. 22 on ATS) Fuffy pre-count: 21 (inc. 1 on ATS) Gethan pre-count: 4 (inc. 0 on ATS)

How to verify? I did not rewatch all the episodes! I rewatched a few, after checking transcripts, recaps, and ship gif pages.

What doesn't count? Someone talking about the other person, because I am not trying to include the various episodes where Faith is haunting the show. They must appear in a scene together for it to count. They must both be fully aware of each other. Shared dreams (like the Fuffy ones) do count, but regular dreams do not. Buffy Bot, Wishverse Buffy, and FirstEvil Buffy do not count. I treated Faith and Buffy as their "mental" selves during the two body swap episode scenes. Also I treated Angel the same as Angelus and soul-less Spike the same as soul-ed Spike.

Notes per Ship...

Spuffy (Spike x Buffy) 71 total S1: 0 / S2: 7 / S3: 1 / S4: 9 / S5: 18 / S6: 17 / S7: 19 / ATS: 0 4x06 Wild At Heart does not count because in the cemetery she is not aware he can hear her speech "to him." 4x16 Who Are You? does not count because Spike encounters Faith in Buffy's body, so I counted that as a Faith-Spike scene. 4x22 Restless also does not count because while he appears in Xander's dream and so does Buffy, this is Xander's dream so neither appearance counts. 5x08 Shadow does not count because he dreams of her, but it's not a shared dream. Bangel (Buffy x Angel) 49 total S1: 6 / S2: 19 / S3: 18 / S4: 1 / S5: 1 / S6: 0 / S7: 2 / ATS: 2 (S1) 3x03 Faith Hope and Trick does not count because when naked Angel appears at the end Buffy has already left. 3x09 The Wish does not count because Wishverse Buffy is not regular Buffy. 4x08 Pangs does not count because Buffy is not aware of him. Spangel (Spike x Angel) 35 total S1: 0 / S2: 10 / S3: 1 / S4: 0 / S5: 0 / S6: 0 / S7: 0 / ATS: 24 (S1, 2, 5) 4x08 Pangs does not count because Spike does not share a scene with Angel. 7x21 End of Days and 7x22 Chosen both do not count because while Spike watches Angel, Angel does not seem to be aware of him watching. For ATS, besides all of S5, they share scenes in 1x03 In The Dark and 2x07 Darla.

Fuffy (Faith x Buffy) 21 total S1: 0 / S2: 0 / S3: 13 / S4: 2 / S5: 0 / S6: 0 / S7: 5 / ATS: 1 (S1) Every Faith appearance in a BTVS episode means she will have a scene with Buffy. She has 5 Buffy-less episodes on ATS. I did count the dream sequence in 3x22 Graduation Day Part 2 because I read it as a shared dream. They are both aware of the other.

Gethan (Giles x Ethan) 4 total S1: 0 / S2: 2 / S3: 1 / S4: 1 / S5: 0 / S6: 0 / ATS: 0 Similar to Faith, whenever Ethan appears in an episode, he will have a scene with Giles.

This doesn't have visualization yet but I wanted to share the results.

[mostly-natm]

Brothers.

[kebbopulos]

I was curious how a ship being queer interacted with whether it is canon. So I graphed Tumblr's Year in Review top 100 ships based on whether they were canon and whether they were queer

(the percentage stands for what percent of queer ships each queer column takes up and what percent of straight ships each straight column takes up, NOT percent of all ships)

so queer ships were more likely to not be canon, and grey area ships (such as mutual pining) were more likely to be straight ships

[rexscanonwife]

Also remembering when I met Brent Spiner!!! 🥺💖🫶💖🫶💖🫶💖 and he called me a fine artist and was so sweet!!

[starcrossed-perceivers]

Data and Sydney (my oc) in the Bee and Puppycat Style!

(Reference image under the cut)

[selfindulgentfandomstuff]

Little bit of Ethel and Data for y’all :3

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Ethel Silvers (left): they/she/he

Data Soong (right): he/him

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Proship + adjacent DNI

[lieutenantselnia]

[stanfordsenbyhusband]

I haven't even been hyper fixated on Star Trek in a long while but my two Star Trek f/os will randomly pop into my head sometimes lol

Link to Picrew

Pro.ship/com.ship/neutral dni

[mavlotov]

c♡mm for @robo-gal ! ty again!

commission me!

[d-atalog]

personally i'll never forgive netflix for rebooting atla. not only am i sick and tired of perfectly good media getting subpar live action adaptations but oh my god we did not need to add fuel to the already existing fire that is the kataang v zutara ship war

[lesbianralzarek]

im considering watching the fallout tv show but im trying to do a cortisol detox and i know that any fallout fandom consists of my beautiful and brilliant mutuals and 1 million morons with worse interpretations of the canon text than if they were to never interact with the source material at all and just guess

anyway. if i do watch it theres a 50/50 chance yall will never know, because if i have any self-control i will simply stay quiet

[pierswife]

I just want them to be happy

[gideonisms]

We can get gidianthe onto the list next year too, I believe in us

[kebbopulos]

I was wondering if a ship being non-canon made it more appealing to shippers, so here's a pie chart I made of Tumblr's top 100 ships and whether or not they are canon

Grey area is for things like "mutual pining" where the characters aren't in a relationship but the show may have implied or suggested the two were (or the shippers may be exaggerating canon interactions). It's also for any ships I couldn't find sufficient data on

notably, 4 of the top 5 ships are all non-canon

mostly inconclusive but I still think it's interesting!

[rexscanonwife]

Hello all!! Some of you may know I've been at a convention this weekend with my beloved partner and as tiring as it is, its been one of the best weekends of my life! Not one but THREE f/o guests were here and I drew pictures and got signatures from ALL of them!

Steve Whitmire was amazingly down to earth and Brent Spiner was very sweet, but an absolute HIGHLIGHT of my weekend was meeting Chris Sabat! 💖💖

The moment I handed him that art he clocked it as self ship, saying "that's you, right? You portray yourself perfectly!" And not only was he very kind but he also wanted to take a photo with me, my partner (dressed as Spamton hehe) and the drawing!!

I damn near cried and I'm STILL riding that high! And I want this to inspire any others who might have the opportunity to meet your f/os' actors!! They're still people like us, and I assure you they're glad we love something they brought to life as much as we do! 💖💘💖💘💖💘💖

[starcrossed-perceivers]

Reimagining “In Theory” with Sydney 💛