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no, op's attitude aside, i haven't met a single keith that doesn't ship sheith either, they're right. not saying they don't exist, but i haven't seen any. it's usually shiros that aren't into it.

i think i must have just fallen into a group of klance fans, then. if sheith is bigger outside of my rp group then i'll take your word for it.

i'd say klance and sheith are just about tied for popularity, if the fucking ship wars are any indication, but i can't think of a pairing for shiro that's anywhere near as popular as sheith, so like was said above, for any rando keith tagging out on a ship-flavored meme, any shiro they find is way way more likely to be down for the ship than not, which makes op's stubborn insistence on not stating their preferences that much more stupid.

klance has several times the amount of fic that sheith does though. i think it’s fair to say klance is more popular.

klance is way more popular, there's ~klance beach parties~ ffs

sheith only seems popular in dwrp because fans skew older here (inb4 womanchildren)

also i am a shiro player who ships sheith and this thread has gently rustled my jimmies

Sheith also got more popular around here after S6 and S7 happened, because it became easier for Keith players to point out that they don't want to ship with Lance (and many of the ship-pushing Lances got tired of the show for not catering to them).

IDK where this anon got the idea that many Shiro players don't ship Sheith ... there's one, maybe two that I've seen. It's a popular ship on both sides of the equation

or at least more popular with fanfic writers. idk if there's any way to track all fanworks, but i'll give you that

the ship wars make them seem more equal, but if klance really is that much more popular (almost three times the amount of fic on ao3) then i sincerely wonder there's a war at all.

the problem with A03 (and this is for all fandoms and not just a voltron problem) is that tags can give you a general idea of what is popular but if you want exact numbers it's not reliable. people use every damn tag in the fic even if the character has only one line, and this is particularly awful for background ships. if someone writes "pair the spares" you'll get that ship in the background just because.

this is why, for example, i'm wary to judge the shallura fandom like another anon is doing in this thread. because i think most of the obnoxious ones were just klancers that wanted shallura to get shiro out of the way, and actual shallura fans don't give a fuck. (in my experience, anyway, maybe there were some assholes shalluras i didn't see)

yeah, but we're comparing two ships that feature the same character. i don't think klance can exist as a background ship in a sheith fic, or vice versa, anon.

i know, but they're background for other ships, that's the point. if you read stuff like hunk/shay, hunk/pidge, lotor/allura or allura/romelle, you will find one of those two to go along with them.

i understand what you're saying but the skewing of the numbers is only marginally off, especially when the discrepancy between klance and sheith is as large as it is. i agree with your shallura take, btw. i've seen some assholish shallura shippers but they're very few; meanwhile there's a lot of klance shippers who use either shallura or shadam as a way to get rid of sheith.

but they're not going to be background ships *in the same fic*, anon. or at least highly unlikely to be. so that's not going to throw off the count at all, especially not to the degree of difference between them.

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