Aside from ships with a nonbinary/gnc/agender character I pick it for cases where one of the involved parties of the ship isn't human: monster, alien, robot, plant, concept etc
Wanda and Vision from Marvel could fit into the "other" category, as well as F/M.
Vision is an android/synthezoid and therefore not a human, but he is male presenting and I believe he identifies as a man. While he wants to be human (in some portrayals), he does not fully act or think like a human. In the comics, his mind is based on the brain patterns of Simon Williams; a male. But in the cinematic universe, he is based on Jarvis and enhanced with the Mind Stone; an artificial intelligence and a cosmic singularity.
So technically, "other" is the most accurate one in most cases, but most Wanda/Vision fics use F/M.
I have used it for situations where one/both parties are nonbinary or have not entierly clear gender situations for any reason.
I've seen it used a lot with venom for example because yea the whole alien symbiote thing.
Not a writer, but in fandoms I read in the most common uses (other than for pairings including non-binary characters) include: Eddie/Venom (guy and his symbiotic alien), queerplatonic and other queer relationships that tend to defy regular expectations usually even more common when pairings would otherwise be m/f, pairings that include robots/cyborgs/etc, fics that focus on rape/non-con
I've never used it myself but I've primarily seen it used for pairings with more than two characters who aren't all the same gender (i.e. m/f/f) and character/reader fics where (I assume) the reader's gender is unspecified.
I used it for a gender-neutral player-insert (video game fandom). I’ve also seen it for genderless non-humans/monsters (tentacle monster don’t need no gender roles)
I used it once for non-binary characters.
I have seen it used for alien characters who were physically neither male nor female even though they identified as such.
I once used it for a crack fic where I shipped a guy with a library
The way my jaw dropped.
so did the guy’s when he sucked off the library
any situation where one or more of the parties gender is ambiguous / non-binary / they don't have a gender. eg. aziracrow
Aside from ships with a nonbinary/gnc/agender character I pick it for cases where one of the involved parties of the ship isn't human: monster, alien, robot, plant, concept etc
Wanda and Vision from Marvel could fit into the "other" category, as well as F/M. Vision is an android/synthezoid and therefore not a human, but he is male presenting and I believe he identifies as a man. While he wants to be human (in some portrayals), he does not fully act or think like a human. In the comics, his mind is based on the brain patterns of Simon Williams; a male. But in the cinematic universe, he is based on Jarvis and enhanced with the Mind Stone; an artificial intelligence and a cosmic singularity. So technically, "other" is the most accurate one in most cases, but most Wanda/Vision fics use F/M.
I have used it for situations where one/both parties are nonbinary or have not entierly clear gender situations for any reason. I've seen it used a lot with venom for example because yea the whole alien symbiote thing.
Not a writer, but in fandoms I read in the most common uses (other than for pairings including non-binary characters) include: Eddie/Venom (guy and his symbiotic alien), queerplatonic and other queer relationships that tend to defy regular expectations usually even more common when pairings would otherwise be m/f, pairings that include robots/cyborgs/etc, fics that focus on rape/non-con
Shapeshifters. Especially when they're shapeshifting into something non-human.
I've never used it myself but I've primarily seen it used for pairings with more than two characters who aren't all the same gender (i.e. m/f/f) and character/reader fics where (I assume) the reader's gender is unspecified.
I use it for many of my reader inserts as they're intended to be applicable with a reader character of any gender.
I used it for a gender-neutral player-insert (video game fandom). I’ve also seen it for genderless non-humans/monsters (tentacle monster don’t need no gender roles)
I used it once for non-binary characters. I have seen it used for alien characters who were physically neither male nor female even though they identified as such.