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[soc_puppet]

My kingdom for a way to differentiate primary ships from secondary and background ships on AO3 🙄 I keep running into one that's not a NoTP, but also definitely not ever something I want to read as the primary focus of a fic. Meanwhile, fans of side-pairings that are popular in the background but not as often in the foreground are usually stuck sorting through dozens and dozens of fics with a given fandom's Uber-Ship that happens to have their preferred ship paired up on the side, and summaries aren't always as helpful as they could be in denoting who, exactly, a given fic is actually about.

Anyway, that's my tiny gripe for the day. I'd say to tune in next time, but I've no notion when that'll be, so I guess you're on your own.

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[satsuma]

Hahaha yes sorry for the confusion! Of course the one time I don’t use Name/Name formatting is for a ship with a fandom homophone

But yeah Sam/Gabriel, was a common side ship for Dean/Cas fics bc once you’ve paired one brother off with an angel may as well make it a matched set I guess??? Along with a small devoted set of fic writers enamored with the idea of the two boys who’d tried to run away from their awful families finding happiness together and were absolutely impossible to find in the tags. It led to an excellent fic rec culture though, which I can’t complain about!