erinptah | Congratulations to Suletta Mercury for keeping her promise to never lose a duel (Reply)

A Tumblr did a tournament bracket with AO3’s Top Ships of 2023, and the final matchup came down to…Dean/Castiel versus Suletta/Miorine.

(They have a bunch of stats and graphs covering the previous rounds, if you want to dive into the backstory.)

I watched all of Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, and liked the main couple well enough, but didn’t have strong fannish feelings about them. I’ve never watched Supernatural at all, though I enjoy some of the fandom output, and appreciate the fact that AO3 was founded by kinky SPN fans.

Based mostly on that last point, I voted for Destiel. But apparently the poll broke containment, hit the Japanese fandom (where Gundam is a Star-Wars-level franchise), got attention on a bunch of other sites in general, and the SuleMio fans of the world poured in to make new Tumblr accounts just to vote.

And the girls won!

Will this usher in a new era where dramatic world news is announced on Tumblr via edits of SuleMio screencaps…? Time will tell. But either way, good for them.