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    Gemma Bothe

    PhD Candidate Anthropology and Sociology,

    The University of Western Australia

    [email protected]

    PRIMARY KEYWORD: Community Media

    SUPPLIMENTARY KEYWORKS: Creativity/creative Industries; Cultural Studies; Media Studies

    If fandom jumped off a bridge, it would be onto a ship: An examination of

    conflict that occurs though shipping in fandom .

    Abstract:

    Online technology is often purported as a great equaliser amongst users. Unable to physically see, or

    hear users in a text based forum gives the assumption that individuals will default to an open and

    socially inclusive mind-set. At a superficial level participation, fandom and fan fiction appears to be a

    completely socially inclusive forum. Individuals are unable to tell the age, race, gender or demographicof other users. Membership of forums such as Fanfiction.net (ff.net), Archive of Our Own (AO3), and

    Tumblr is essentially unrestricted, with any individual able to create an account. However, social

    exclusion is not always based upon physical identifiers. Identification with a specific ship (a romantic

    paring of two or more characters within a story) within a fandom can result in exclusion and intolerance

    if the ship is not one predominately supported by the fandom. This can result in individuals feeling

    unwelcome and discriminated against. This paper examines two ships which exist within theArrow

    fandom; Olicity (Oliver Queen and Felicity Smoak) and Lauriver (Laurel Lance and Oliver Queen) on

    Tumblr, ff.net, and AO3. Despite not being the relationship that is reflected in the television series, a

    significant proportion ofArrow fans ship Olicity (941 stories on AO3), while those that ship Lauriver are

    the minority (42 stories on AO3). Through an examination of these two ships I seek to show that fans

    discriminate through their posts and commenting, and become socially exclusive based upon these fanpreferences.

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    Online technology is often purported as a great equaliser amongst users. Unable to physically see, or

    hear individuals in a text based forum results in the assumption that people will default to an open and

    socially inclusive mind-set. At a superficial level of participation, online fandom and online fan fiction

    appears to be a socially inclusive forum. Individuals are unable to tell the age, race, gender or socio-

    economic demographic of other users. Membership and participation in forums such as Fanfiction.net

    (ff.net), Archive of Our Own (AO3), and Tumblr are essentially unrestricted, with any individual able to

    create an account. However, conflict is not always based upon physical identifiers. Identification with a

    specific ship (a romantic paring of two or more characters) within a fandom can result in exclusion and

    intolerance between groups within the fandom. This can result in individuals feeling unwelcome and

    discriminated against. This paper examines two ships which exist within theArrow fandom; Olicity

    (Oliver Queen and Felicity Smoak) and Lauriver (Laurel Lance and Oliver Queen) on Tumblr, ff.net, and

    AO3. Despite not being the relationship that is reflected in the television series, a significant proportion

    ofArrow fans ship Olicity (1290 stories on AO3), while those that ship Lauriver are the minority (64

    stories on AO3). Through an examination of these two ships I seek to show that fans discriminate

    through their posts and commenting, and become socially exclusive based upon these fan preferences.

    This results in a fan community that is not homogenous and conflict free, but one that is fragmented

    with competing interpretations of the source text.

    The data for this paper has been collected over the last 6 months during the fieldwork for my PhD. This

    data has been collected through interviews and conversations with both canon (original work) authors,

    and fan authors, as well as through the observation and examination of fan fiction on ff.net, AO3 and

    Tumblr.

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    There are varied definitions of fan fiction that exist (Black, 2009; Busse, 2009; Derecho, 2006; Young,

    2007; Jenkins, 1992; Jenkins, 2004); however, at its most basic fan fiction can be described as a written

    story based on a pre-existing work, generally known as the canon. According to Schaffner (Schaffner,

    2009: 614) [a]t its core, fanfiction is simply the practice of writing fiction based on other peoples

    work.Many definitions of fan fiction can get caught upin dichotomies such as; professional vs.

    unprofessional, commercial vs. non-commercial and quality writing vs. amateur writing. To fully explore

    these issues would be an entire paper in itself; therefore, for the purpose of simplicity, I will only be

    using the term fan fiction to refer to written texts, produced for a non-commercial purpose, that have

    been posted on an online fan fiction site that is, or is similar to, sites such as archiveofourown.org, and

    fanfiction.net.

    Fan fiction is generally distributed online through a variety of websites. There are community sites such

    as AO3, and fanfic.net, which are dedicated to a fan fiction from numerous canons. There are also other

    web forums such as LiveJournal or Tumblr, which are micro blogging website, where people create

    personal pages and then use them to post fan fiction, as well as general fan commentary. LiveJournal is

    no longer particularly popular, while use of Tumblr is rapidly growing. Tumblr permits individuals to

    engage more widely with a fandom as it allows individuals to post images and YouTube clips, in addition

    to written text. Fans often use a combination of these sites at the same time in order to engage with

    one or more fandoms. Participants site preferences can change over time with readers and writers

    moving between sites.

    Academic works on media fandom and fan fiction alike have generally painted a cohesive picture of fan

    culture. Henry Jenkins (1992) seminal work on fandoms Textual Poachers: Television Fans &

    Participatory Culture describes a relatively homogenous group of fans and their participation at fan

    conventions. This text by Jenkins as well as the work of; Jonathon Gray (2007), Matt Hills (2007), and

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    Camille Bacon-Smith (2000; 1992), position fandoms as a united, cohesive socially inclusive forum. This

    idea is also perpetuated by fans, and content creators themselves. Anne Bishop, a renowned fantasy

    and science author, recently commented at SwanCon 2014, a Perth Science Fiction Convention, that

    fans are basically the same everywhere.These portrayals of fandom result in reducing the visible

    difference and conflict that exists in media fandom in general and within specific media fandoms.

    The cohesiveness of fan culture appears to have eventuated, to some extent, due to theusand them

    dichotomy that has been created in highlighting and exploring fan culture. This dichotomy, in part, could

    have been fostered on fandom externally, as fandom is generally considered a low value activity and

    one that is generally stigmatized by the general public (Lopes, 2006). Jonathon Grayswork Why Study

    Fans differentiates, to some extent, between media fans and fans of sports in order to demonstrate that

    the social stigma and bias that exists towards media fans (Gray et al. 2007). However, despite

    differentiating at a macro level between media fans, sports fans, and general society Gray (2007, pp. 4-

    7) inadvertently glossed over any difference within the fandoms. Gray focuses on fans interaction with

    generalsociety,and discusses fan hierarchy in holistic terms rather than examining differentiation

    within particular fandoms.

    The general cohesiveness in fandom is also assumed in discussions and examinations of fan fiction

    practices. Works such as those in Hellekson and Bussesedited collection New Essays: Fan Fiction and

    Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet, put forward alternative academic perspectives on the

    history of fan fiction (Coppa, 2006), definitions of fan fiction (Derecho, 2006), and whether or not fan

    fiction should be free (De Kosnik, 2009). However, within all of these works is an assumption of unity

    and cohesiveness within the community that they are discussing. Rebecca Black in her workAdolescents

    and Online Fan Fiction (2008) also neglects to examine conflict within fan fiction participants. In Blacks

    examination of adolescents learning English as a second language, through reading and writing fan

    fiction, she presents the adolescents as engaging in a cohesive anime fan fiction community. This is most

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    obvious in her characterisation ofthe kinds of reviews and comments that fan fiction participants leave

    for each other. Black (2008: 107) identifies four main types of reader responses; theOMGStandard,

    which is simple positive feedback; gentle critiquethat incorporates positive feedback with gentle

    suggestions for improvement; focused critiquethat incorporates positive feedback with specific

    suggestions for improvement; and editorialisedgossipwhich focuses on the characters as if they were

    real life people. None of these types of reviews incorporate the possibility for a purely negative, or an

    argumentative comment. All of the works outlined above paint a picture of a complicated, yet a

    cohesive and conflict free community of fans.

    Media fandoms, have also been constructed as sites of active consumption (Gray et al. 2007: 7; Ford et

    al. 2006). The consumption of media products is something that has received a large amount of

    examination, and is not a subject I wish to engage with in depth here. However I do wish to highlight

    Stuart Hallstheoretical approach of encoding and decoding communication (Hall, 1980). Hall suggests

    that media audiences play an active role in decoding media, and constructing meaning from the content

    that they are presented with. Therefore, all individuals will not interpret the same source text in the

    same way (Hall, 1980: 120-122). Hallstheory allows media to be interpreted in a variety of ways

    resulting in individuals consuming the same media, but gaining different meaning from the text. The

    holistic, cohesive view of fandoms, and fan fiction, previously described, does not appear to take into

    account differing interpretations of the source text, and the resulting potential conflict within the

    fandom.

    A way in which different interpretations of a source text manifests in media fandom is through

    shipping.Shipping,is a term in fandom that is derived from the word relationship.A ship refers to a

    romantic relationship between two or more characters. An individual can ship characters whose

    relationship is canon compliant, or in many cases the ship can be not represented or only marginally

    represented within the canon. The characters, although often from the same fandom, do not necessarily

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    need to be. For example, an individual may ship Elsa, from the Disney movie Frozen, and Jack Frost from

    the Dreamworks movie Rise of the Guardians. Fans can ship several combinations of characters within a

    specific fandom, but they may have an OTP; which stands for One True Pairing (or OT3; one true pairing

    involving three characters). An individualsOTP is the ship that that they are most committed to.

    Shipping is a fairly common occurrence within fandoms. In interviews with fan fiction readers and

    writers, many have stated that they have shipping preferences, or ship particular couples. Some

    participants have also commented that they will not read a story if the ship within the fan fiction is not

    one that they enjoy. Two participants, J and M, during an interview jokingly commented that if fandom

    jumped off a bridge it would be onto a ship.This is a play on a saying intended to highlight that actions

    resulting from peer pressure and mass opinion are not necessary logical. In this case the rhetorical

    question is altered to demonstrate there are illogical actions and opinions taken by a majority within a

    fandom, however the motivation for these actions is often a particular ship.

    Shipping is also evident at a structural level within fan fiction storage and organisation. Works in both

    AO3 and on fanfiction.net are organised so that there is an option to sort and filter stories based on

    romantic pairings. On AO3 there is a separate tagging section for writers to tag a relationship in order

    for readers to be able to search for their preferred ship more easily. Tagging couples on AO3 and on

    Tumblr can appear in two ways. One way to tag is fairly standard, as it is the couplesfirst and last name

    separated by a forward slash; for example Oliver Queen/Felicity Smoak. Ships can also be tagged

    through the creation of a portmanteau name. This is done by either combining the couple names, alias

    or descriptor associated with the individuals in the ship. For example Olicity is the combining of Oliver

    and Felicity, or Smoaking Canarrow, is the combination of Felicity Smoak, the Black Canary (alias of Sara

    Lance), and Arrow (alias of Oliver Queen). These couple names appear in most, if not all fandoms, for

    instance Outlaw Queen is the combination of the Evil Queen (alias of Regina), and Robin Hood from the

    television series Once Upon a Time. The ship BioSpecialist is the combination of two characters job titles

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    from the television series MarvelsAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Couple names are also regularly tagged on

    Tumblr, with tags such as #Olicity and #Lauriver making a regular appearance in posts that feature

    Arrow.

    The two main ships which exist within the television showArroware those between the main character,

    Oliver Queen, and either Laurel Lance, or Felicity Smoak. The television series is based upon and inspired

    by the comic book hero Green Arrowcreated in the DC Comic universe. The television series features

    reimagined storylines, villains and characters from the original comic book series.Arrow has just finished

    its second series, and it has been reported to be renewed for a third season (Byrne, 2014).

    The pairing between Oliver Queen and Laurel Lance is canon compliant, as within the television show

    Arrow Oliver Queen and Laurel Lance have had an onagain, off againrelationship. This is consistent

    with the DC comic series Green Arrowin which Oliver Queen eventually marries, Dinah Laurel Lance.

    Alternatively the pairing between Oliver Queen and Felicity Smoak is not canon compliant. The character

    of Felicity Smoak in the television series has little resemblance to the character of the same name in the

    comic series Green Arrow. Although the scenes and writing in the television series hint at potential

    romantic pairing between the two characters, there have been no explicit romantic interactions. Despite

    the lack of romantic interactions between Oliver Queen and Felicity Smoak there is an increasingly large

    fan following that ships these two characters.

    Despite being non-canon compliant the Olicity ship appears to be the more popular one amongstArrow

    fans. On AO3 there are 1290 Oliver Queen/Felicity Smoak stories, compared to 64 Oliver Queen/Laurel

    Lance stories. In addition on fanfiction.net there are 1.6 thousand stories that feature Oliver Queen and

    Felicity Smoak compared to 135 stories that feature Oliver Queen and Laurel Lance, as of the 28th

    of

    April 2014. Fan fiction participants engagement with ships goes beyond the stories written on both AO3

    and fanfiction.net, with fan fiction readers and writers posting about their favourite ships on Tumblr.

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    After each episode ofArrow a stream of text posts, drawings, YouTube videos and gifs appear. This

    content highlights and dissects what happened during the episode, as well as positing ideas for future

    episodes, and posting some fan fiction. Many of the posts relate directly to what the individuals ships, or

    shows an appreciation for a particular character.

    Within theArrow fandom there is a level of animosity between these two ships. This animosity can be

    clearly seen through examining several posts on Tumblr. Posts which are aggressive, or negative towards

    the character that is not part of the fans ship are not uncommon. Below are several examples of

    Lauriver fans, and Olicity fans demonstrating their allegiance to their respective ships.

    Wow, I just lost 4 followers for shipping Laurel/Oliver. Everyone who doesntlike Laurel can unfollow me

    rn [right now] #lauriver, #arrow, #laurel lance #laurel x oliver(A Green Rider, 31st

    of March 2014)

    Laurel haters can seriously gtfo [get the fuck out] after this episodesending. Shes[Laurels] gonna be

    part of Team Arrow and nothing you can say or do can change that. And shes[Laurels] gonna be more

    important than felicity, just like she always has been.(My Name is Oliver Queen, 2nd

    of April 2014).

    Is it just me or it Laurel getting bitchier and bitchier. Calm it lady. #anti laurel #anti lauriver #cantstand

    laurel #anti ship #arrow #arrow season 2(starling arrow, 2nd

    of April 2014).

    My entire dash is Olicity.thentheresthat one Lauriver fan #olicity #anti lauriver(youaremysafeplace,

    2nd

    of April 2014).

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    This animosity can also be seen in the tags used by individuals; for example, nolicityis a tag that is commonly

    used to post anti-olicity sentiments, while anti-lauriveris used to post comments against the Oliver Queen/Laurel

    Lance ship. The animosity expressed through these tags is not just expressed towards the fictional characters, but

    also towards the actresses who play the characters, the writers of the television series and the fans that are

    invested in each ship. Katie Cassidy, the actress who plays Laurel Lance has received angry, and at times hateful,

    messages on social media from Olicity fans resulting in her tweeting on April 28th

    2014 that Hatersare just jealous,

    insecure, sad lonely people.While Lauriver fans have often told Olicity fans to growup,or implied that show

    writers are panderingto Olicity fans.

    As each new episode ofArrowis aired in the United States new evidence is gathered from the scenes and dialogue

    of the episode to lend credence to the legitimacy of one ship over another. Select images from the episodes are

    turned into gif sets with accompanying text. The audio of the images is removed and any speech is

    replicated by text that appears on the image.However, additional interpretative text is generally added by the

    Tumblr user as a heading or an addition underneath the gif set. This additional text breaks down the scene to

    interpret it within the frame of a specific ship. For example, in the episode Time of Death Oliver confronts Laurel

    Lance and has an argument with her stating, I have loved you for half my life, but Im done running after you.

    Laurivier fans interpreted this scene as evidence for Olivers continuing love and affection for Laurel Lance; while

    Olicity fans saw this scene as Oliver standing up to Laurel, and beginning to let go of their past relationship.

    The interpretation of scenes and interactions through a particular ship also occurs through fan fiction stories

    written using particular scenes of episodes as a launching point. This was done extensively for the episode Keep

    Your Enemies Closer,as during this episode Oliver tells Felicity that he justthink[s] itsbetter to not be with

    someone I could really care about.Lauriver fans did not interpret this scene as Oliver referring to Felicity as the

    someonehe could really care about.While Olicity fans assumed that Oliver was referring to Felicity. Olicity fans

    have written numerous fan fictions based on this scene to explore the inner thoughts of the characters, their

    motivations, and in some cases re-write the scene so that it was more explicitly Olicity.

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    Both the Olicity and Lauriver fans are watching the same scenes of the television show, but interpret the

    scenes and dialogue in different ways to suit their ships.This can be linked explicitly to Hallsconception of

    encoding and decoding media. Olicity and Lauriver fans are decoding the media ofArrow in order to suit their own

    fannish frames resulting in the fans seeing different relationships between the on screen characters. These

    differences in interpretation have the effect of creating different and in the case ofArrow, competing, sub-

    fandoms within the television series.

    As demonstrated by the competing ships within theArrow fandom, fan fiction, and fandoms are not homogenous

    places. As Halls(1980) theory of encoding and decoding media shows, media can be interpreted in a variety of

    ways. These differences in interpretation result in groups and subcultures within fandom and fan fiction whose

    interpretations of texts compete with each other. Previous studies of fans have sought to show the larger picture

    of fandom. However, focusing on the bigger picture has neglected the divisions and subcultures that exist within

    fandom. One of the most visual ways in which these competing interpretations and interests in fandom is

    demonstrated is through fans posting fan fictions, comments and gifs dedicated to particular ships. Fans of a

    particular ship interpret scenes and dialogue as evidence for their ship of interest. Interpreting texts in different

    ways, amongst people who are passionate about the source text, can and does, result in conflicts, arguments, and

    in some cases intolerance of fandom subgroups. These conflicts result in a picture of fans that is in contrast with

    the homogenous identity of fandom that is often painted by scholars.

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