This is the least toxic fandom that I’ve ever been in.” “It’s really all-inclusive, and no one person is dictating the way that everything flows, and I think that’s quite a wonderful thing for a community.
“It was initially cultivated to be an L.G.B.T.Q.-friendly space and comfortable for people of color,” said Oleander Kiewel, a “Ships” fan who helped build the wiki and created the character Captain Drusilla Spadeworthe, who is pansexual. “Ships” is inclusive by default nearly every fan can take credit for some piece of the creative project, and the group has made sure that the ship captains reflect diverse identities within the fandom. “We’ve been hurt by people who create stories for us, ostensibly ones that are inclusive, ones that we grew up with, ones that helped us form our own identities,” Dr. Drea Letamendi, a clinical psychologist at UCLA and a host of a pop culture podcast called “The Arkham Sessions,” agreed that the growth of the “Ships” fandom could be a response to upheaval within fan communities.
Rowling’s views on transgender people.ĭr. “You could be sure if you said there was a character that represented you perfectly, you wouldn’t have to worry about, a year later, finding out that the person who wrote about it actually didn’t acknowledge you as a person,” Mr. It’s a problem that couldn’t haunt an imaginary show with an endless number of authors - at least, in the same way. The “Ships” fandom also created a refuge for people who’d felt betrayed by the creators of other franchises they loved fans of “Harry Potter” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” have qualified their admiration for “Ships” in light of recent revelations about the makers of those fictional worlds. So, how exactly did “Ships of the Northern Fleet” come into semi-existence? It started, like so many other dramatic arcs online, with a throwaway post on social media. Popular discussion topics include the Cog Hogs, small clockwork hedgehogs that are cuter than the Porgs of “Star Wars” fame, and the majestic Sky Whales, giant beasts who flew in the sky next to the pirates’ soaring airships.įans debate the merits of the ships’ various captains, including Captain Neil Barnabus (the leader of the True Winds fleet, named after the fantasy writer Neil Gaiman) and Captain George Hellman (who is “played” by Nathan Fillion, a fixture of the sci-fi genre he wrote in an email that though he hadn’t heard of the show, he is “all for it”). “Fleeters,” as they’re known, congregate on Discord and TikTok to talk about their favorite “memories” of the adventures of the ship crews of the Four Fleets. That’s because “Ships of the Northern Fleet” isn’t real. Maybe you remember it, too - but it’s much more likely that you don’t.
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