#shieldsworth represeeeeeent :')

[masked-disciple]

How about 'niche ship where the only lemons you didn't write are either a) meticulously over-communicated to the point you feel like you're reading scarleteen and there's zero chemistry anymore or b) someone's drabble that is just a three paragraph plot sketch on the back of a receipt' because that's a special kind of hell.

The relationship between shipping and fanfic is so much more than a binary choice between "niche ship where it's impossible to find anything" and "popular ship where it's impossible to find anything readable". There's also "niche ship that has thousands of fics because it's captured the imagination of an extremely specific kink subculture that you're not into at all", "popular ship whose writing community became established during an early hiatus and never incorporated any subsequent developments, instead diverging into an alternative canon that's unrecognisable to fans of the actual source material", "moderately well-represented ship where literally everything seems to have been written by a single impossibly prolific author whose grammatical quirks drive you up the wall", etc.