Yeah sorry its hard to keep track of threads on Kinja...

You are story is changing a bit from:

Then it goes to scale, if I am running a huge gaming meetup:

Nobody wants to read canon straight couple fanfic :p

I’m all for a American FarCry, but this is my biggest concern as well. I’m worried they will do some kind of cop-out, even more so when they said the player is a cop. Oh, I bet they are going to frame it like: “you need to infiltrate this group and ‘collect evidence’ before the feds can act, while we stand out here…

The short answer would be “because it is not theirs”.

Root of problem has been solved.

Its...perfect. This is going to be the best thing I read all week.

Don’t have to create or do anything, because next week new movies and novels and episodes will be released to meet that need.

As a straight man, I think shipping is super dumb (the creation), but I do enjoy the uh pictures it creates (my consumption). So drawing/creating a picture of two of them in a compromised position I can understand, but to create this whole fanfiction world, this head canon, to write stories about it and get into…

That is a good point too. I know they posted some numbers once, but only like 15-18% (depending on the source) even played as FemShep, and I looked around a bit but could note find a percentage on what the numbers are on who romanced who.

But it is different I think, because your examples are from a consuming level. Where these people are creating things.

And seriously if you have never ventured into a high stakes social engagement as the only, you probably just didn’t recognize you were the only ass.

ignoring the root of the problem which is that gaming is male dominated and not very welcoming.

See that is what I find interesting, I mean, is that why 90% (of tumblr) ships are that way? Are the majority of shippers women? (and/or) the majority of them gay? (and/or) just do they like gay ships? (and/or) just like getting off on gay ships? (and/or) is just the taboo-ness of it? (and/or) for more…

How so?

Oh oh! I did this last time:

Well I would only hand it out if you asked me, “Why are there no women here?”

reflection on how she has embraced other women:

Yes, sometimes.