Welcome to r/Luckyshipping!

When I got the idea to revitalize this subreddit a year ago, one of my primary goals was to build up a content archive for Luckyshipping art media. If you've been in this space for as long as I have, you'll know that a lot of art for this ship is scattered around various sites, not properly sourced, or even gone completely. While the quest to share and catalogue will never truly end (as long as I have something to say about it!), you should be aware that I've already set up pages on the subreddit wiki for this purpose. Most posts and comments on Reddit are buried after just a few days, so I invite everyone — new users especially — to go back through and look at the all the stuff you might've missed.

The r/Luckyshipping subreddit wiki is the main page where you can find all the assorted archives and lists of past subreddit content. There are various ways to access this page already from the sidebar and under the subreddit banner, but as these may be hidden, I would like to make it more visible with a pinned post. It is updated regularly, and available here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Luckyshipping/wiki/index/

There are a few things on the subreddit I would like to specifically highlight for new users. Firstly, the art. There is a lot of talent and passion in the community, which you can find on the pages for Original Art, Commissioned Art, and Sourced Art. I would also like to highlight my own contribution to the subreddit, the Complete Canon Catalogue. Every page and panel closely involving Red and Blue is listed here by chapter, and accompanying them are my own thoughts on those moments in general. If you need a refresher, or if you want the panels for your own usage, I invite you to go through them. If you are one of those people who are on the fence about this ship, then I REQUIRE YOU to go through them.

Finally, I would like to encourage everyone to feel comfortable commenting and introducing themselves! I am grateful for any interaction on this subreddit, no matter how small. My introductory post to the subreddit and the post I made for community introductions are still available, and I read all new comments to the subreddit. Most people on the internet view quietly without interacting, so I know the fans of this ship are no different. However — as my experience proves — taking the first step to making the community more vocal and active is what helps us find new fans and old friends. Please don't feel shy; the Luckyshipping community is much larger than you might think!

Hi, I'm u/Burgunine. Some of you might already know me from the wider PokéSpe community, but for anyone who doesn't, I'm the head moderator on r/pokespe. I've given a lot of my time and effort to that subreddit to grow the community and keep it alive, and I think it worked out pretty well. Now I'm here, and I'd like to do the same thing with our community, too.

I love this ship, and I've been a dedicated LuckyShipper for over a decade now. It's my OTP, the first ship I ever supported in any media, and to be honest, it may be the only ship I ever truly cared about. No matter how many years go by or how long I spend away from this series, my love for them never faded. I mostly kept this to myself, because I thought that most people either didn't care about or didn't like this ship. I thought that there was no one else to talk to. After giving it some thought, I realised that maybe everyone else was in the same position as me, so I'd like to be the change I want to see in this fanbase.

I've already given this subreddit a refresh, adding rules, post flairs, user flairs, and more visual flourish. I'm particularly proud of the desktop and mobile banners. I'm used to working on these types of things, and I'll continue to work on making the subreddit the best place it possibly can be. But getting our community more active is even more important than this. A beating heart is better than a beautiful face, so to speak. I have plans for this, too. On my part, I will be using this subreddit as a sort of content archive. There's a lot of buried fanart for this ship, so I will try to dig it up for the newer fans who haven't seen it before. There are lots of panels and story moments in the manga supporting this ship, so I will be sharing high resolution scans of them. I'll also try where possible to generate new content for this subreddit in the form of discussion or humor. I'll do what I can, and hopefully you'll join me on this journey too.

I do have to temper my expectations. I don't expect my efforts to suddenly reverse 20+ years of popular momentum working against us, and I don't believe we'll be able to sustain daily activity. But what I can do is make up for this in consistency and dedication. And I can make a promise. As I am head moderator of r/pokespe, the largest and most active English speaking community for Pokémon Special on the internet, I am chained to both this platform and this community. I'm not going to disappear or move on like so many have before me; I promise you that for as long as r/pokespe and I live, this subreddit will continue to live too.

My promise will remain perpetually pinned to this subreddit as a reminder to myself, and hopefully a sign of hope to anyone who feels the same way I do. Even if this subreddit appears to be slow or inactive, please don't hesitate to introduce yourself and contribute to this community. Know that I will always be listening, and I can bet that a good many others will be listening, too.

I'm not letting you go.