![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Farcille 2024
Jan. 2nd, 2024 09:37 pm long story short ok well. long story long. some friends were despairing about how the ao3 top ship stats for the 2023 calendar year are even more depressingly womanless than usual. And I said, "hey, to make it to the bottom of this top-50 ranking, it looks like all you need is around 1500 new ships in a year. We should all just pick one, tell everyone we know to write 3 fics a day for the rest of 2024, and game the system to get more yuri on the list. this seems unrealistic especially because i know i'm not going to be contributing that much, and the f/f ships that tend to become popular don't fit my aesthetic sensibilities, but after brainstorming a little bit I think Farcille has an honest chance to make it up there with the advent of the new anime this Friday.
(Currently on the evening of 1/2/2024, the ao3 stats are: Dunmeshi fandom tag has 154 fics. 38 are tagged farcille. they are far and away the biggest ship; the next up is kabru/mithrun with 15! It's the overall fandom volume that seems to hold them back.)
The issue isn't the popularity of the pairing, but maybe that they and the story itself are... too complete? I'll be honest I don't really have an itch to fill in the gaps because canon was well executed! and the manga, which was recently completed, has been popular for years with artists. but I, personally, can imagine myself doing marcille character studies, and it's not hard to write falin into that. So that's what this is gonna be! a running list of topics! 3 a day is a joke but maybe 1 a week? "that's the equivalent of A THIRD OF THE EXTANT FICS IN THIS FANDOM sarah" don't let your dreams be memes.
The other part of this project is, as my much more strategic friend shannon pointed out, nominating farcille for every possible applicable exchange/promptfest, and maybe doing a ship week as well. current plans:
-femslashex - this is always around like september right?
-drum up a hype train for femslash feb, even tho this in an individual thing artists tend to do
-...find a general panfandom kinkmeme or something
-an any-time bingo card
THINGS FOR TO WRITE, ME and any others, any idea overlap makes number go up
-marcille's greatest fear re: falin, the entire mission of the manga
-marcille's attachment issues in general re: following falin to the island in the first place, not wanting people to exit her life
-marcille's greatest fear - MDZS sunshot campaign AU, reviving Falin
-hmm... hikaru ga shinda natsu AU? "came back wrong"
-witch hat atelier AU BRIMHAT MARCILLEEEEE ugh ugh ugh it's SOOOO
-good that normal videogame logic makes you think that she's a "white mage" for casting a "life" spell, but in-universe it's an incredibly fucked up visceral dark magic thing and she dgaf
-something something fire emblem nosferatu spell is dark magic in awakeyfates but holy magic in fodlan. mannn would marcille trap falin in the body of some unsuspecting... well... it's the reverse... trapping the human in a dragon. lol
-lab partner terrarium stuff
-something abt how falin was hungry bc dragon tummy big, human mouth small, remembering that feeling afterwards
-vignette about being meat-horny tbh
-modern au breakup fic themed around resurrection magic from canon where they just try to fix it back to normal every time but it irrevocably degrades the relationship
-making a nice pie :)
-marcille is too clingy and falin asks for space and someone else (laios?) has to tell her like. hey she's staring down the barrel of 900 years without you
-(deep aggrieved sigh) modern nonmagic au where i transpose my abandonment and demands for attention onto marcille......
-something like thank god laios's selfishness saved us all. it would have been bad if it were me.
-"there's too much stuff I wish for" - marcille and adhd
-something with snails
-k...kettlecorn... wedding
-something about the physicality of marcille knowing what it feels like to be full human for a day
-..................perio-
-that scene with the hand bones - they put 2 of falin's fingers on backwards and marcille blames herself later
-honestly it's amazing she can be dispassionate enough to put bones back together like it's a job i wonder if this is how doctors are.
-pet death fic
-family intro fic
-marcille elf jail
-marcille old age reminiscing
-unrequited farcille where it's JUST abandonment issues and projecting a la portrait of the artist
-being jealous at school perhaps falin pov
-falin featherfic wingfic lesssgoooo baybee
(Currently on the evening of 1/2/2024, the ao3 stats are: Dunmeshi fandom tag has 154 fics. 38 are tagged farcille. they are far and away the biggest ship; the next up is kabru/mithrun with 15! It's the overall fandom volume that seems to hold them back.)
The issue isn't the popularity of the pairing, but maybe that they and the story itself are... too complete? I'll be honest I don't really have an itch to fill in the gaps because canon was well executed! and the manga, which was recently completed, has been popular for years with artists. but I, personally, can imagine myself doing marcille character studies, and it's not hard to write falin into that. So that's what this is gonna be! a running list of topics! 3 a day is a joke but maybe 1 a week? "that's the equivalent of A THIRD OF THE EXTANT FICS IN THIS FANDOM sarah" don't let your dreams be memes.
The other part of this project is, as my much more strategic friend shannon pointed out, nominating farcille for every possible applicable exchange/promptfest, and maybe doing a ship week as well. current plans:
-femslashex - this is always around like september right?
-drum up a hype train for femslash feb, even tho this in an individual thing artists tend to do
-...find a general panfandom kinkmeme or something
-an any-time bingo card
THINGS FOR TO WRITE, ME and any others, any idea overlap makes number go up
-marcille's greatest fear re: falin, the entire mission of the manga
-marcille's attachment issues in general re: following falin to the island in the first place, not wanting people to exit her life
-marcille's greatest fear - MDZS sunshot campaign AU, reviving Falin
-hmm... hikaru ga shinda natsu AU? "came back wrong"
-witch hat atelier AU BRIMHAT MARCILLEEEEE ugh ugh ugh it's SOOOO
-good that normal videogame logic makes you think that she's a "white mage" for casting a "life" spell, but in-universe it's an incredibly fucked up visceral dark magic thing and she dgaf
-something something fire emblem nosferatu spell is dark magic in awakeyfates but holy magic in fodlan. mannn would marcille trap falin in the body of some unsuspecting... well... it's the reverse... trapping the human in a dragon. lol
-lab partner terrarium stuff
-something abt how falin was hungry bc dragon tummy big, human mouth small, remembering that feeling afterwards
-vignette about being meat-horny tbh
-modern au breakup fic themed around resurrection magic from canon where they just try to fix it back to normal every time but it irrevocably degrades the relationship
-making a nice pie :)
-marcille is too clingy and falin asks for space and someone else (laios?) has to tell her like. hey she's staring down the barrel of 900 years without you
-(deep aggrieved sigh) modern nonmagic au where i transpose my abandonment and demands for attention onto marcille......
-something like thank god laios's selfishness saved us all. it would have been bad if it were me.
-"there's too much stuff I wish for" - marcille and adhd
-something with snails
-k...kettlecorn... wedding
-something about the physicality of marcille knowing what it feels like to be full human for a day
-..................perio-
-that scene with the hand bones - they put 2 of falin's fingers on backwards and marcille blames herself later
-honestly it's amazing she can be dispassionate enough to put bones back together like it's a job i wonder if this is how doctors are.
-pet death fic
-family intro fic
-marcille elf jail
-marcille old age reminiscing
-unrequited farcille where it's JUST abandonment issues and projecting a la portrait of the artist
-being jealous at school perhaps falin pov
-falin featherfic wingfic lesssgoooo baybee
