2023 Ship Promo Post!

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We know most of you have been looking forward to this post, so without further ado, here's your chance to share what you love about the rare ships you've nominated and will either request and/or offer! Some of the rare ships in the tagset belong to rare canons. If you're someone who loves trying new canons or is currently on the hunt to become obsessive about something else, this is a great post for you!

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[embraidery]

Canon: All The Crooked Saints - Maggie Stiefvater

Ships: Beatriz Soria/Pete Wyatt

Media: YA Novel

A summary of the canon: The Sorias are a Mexican family living in the Colorado desert in the 1960s. They have the ability to perform "miracles," i.e. making the darkness inside people into an external phenomenon. The pilgrims must then work on themselves until their darkness leaves, but the Sorias can't help without risking their own darkness. With young Daniel's decision to help the pilgrim he loves, and the arrival of Pete, who isn't here for a miracle, the lives of the whole Soria clan are shaken up and their traditions questioned.

What do you love about this ship/these ships?: Beatriz is a quiet but intensely thoughtful, logical girl always thinking about the universe. People say she doesn't have feelings and she's started to believe it. Pete's dream of joining the army was put off by his heart defect, and he throws himself into physical labor to avoid thinking about his own feelings. They are immediately drawn to each other but don't immediately act on it because of their issues, but events bring them together. I love that Pete sees through her facade and encourages her to accept her feelings. I love their similarities and differences.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Quite a variety! They kind of instantly have an understanding and know they have strong feelings for each other, but I don't know if either has ever been in a relationship; Beatriz certainly wouldn't have been. (I think she was probably homeschooled.) They have also had fairly different upbringings, with Beatriz raised "Catholic" but with this magical realist experience of miracles (including a priest with a coyote's head and a young woman who is always being rained on), with a tight-knit but argumentative Mexican family, and Pete a WASP in Oklahoma. Anything with them navigating how to be together, trying to deal with their feelings for the first time in their lives, etc would be great, but also established relationship stuff, fluffy or not. I'd love to see Beatriz studying science somewhere, but I'm not sure what that looks like for a woman in the 60s.

Content warnings: Let's see. Minor character death, usually in stylised, fairy-tale ways (like Daniel's parents being turned into wood; baby Daniel being cut from his mother's body). It's not discussed in detail, but the implication is that the priest gets a little too much enjoyment from, say, hugging his parishioners. People planning to walk out into the desert and never return.