Ship
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Clipped from "relationship", ship is a term commonly found in the fan fiction scene. A pairing of two (or rarely more) characters in a romantic or sexual relationship. Originated in X-Files fandom, when the fanboys and girls masturbating over Mulder and Scully, respectively, figured it would be totally hawt if Mulder and Scully knocked boots.
Most people refer to a ship by the characters in it (IE "I ship Hermione/Ron") or by the initials of the characters involved (IE "I ship HG/RW"). Many fanons have established short forms for characters other than their initials, which can also be used (IE "I ship Hr/R")
Regardless of the probability of two characters getting together in canon, someone already wrote a fanfic about it and posted it on FF.net. Therefore, it is impossible to come up with a ship that hasn't been invented by someone else. Google always has enough proof of it, though it is advised to stay away from the most hardcore ships if you're mundane.
Invariably homosexual.
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[edit] The Great Shipping Wars
Sometimes, disputes can't end with wars, but instead, guns. This is a list of all the small and major conflicts to happen.
[edit] Harry Potter
The war to end all wars.
Originally just a small arguement in forums.
Is now a Lolwar between Hermione/Harry and Harry/Ginny.
[edit] History
Originally argued between on a really lame Yahoo! Groups site. Soon transformed into a giant shitty debate at Fictionalley.
Many sites saw what the dipshits were doing, and decided to create sites based entirely on shipping. Which drew huge amounts of people.
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Homosexuality, hints were dropped that suggested the pussy Ron and the butch dyke Hermione.
Ginny was introduced, which threw everybody off and made them nervous as they might pair Harry and Ginny.
But J.K Rowling, continued to tease fanboys and fangirls of the series.
That's when J.K Rowling dropped the proverbial bomb.
The backlash was unbelieveable, when faggots of the Hermione/Harry ship started saying that they would return their copies of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and boycott future Harry Potter books.
| —J.K Rowling |
J.K Rowling is famous on an extensive amount of Harry Potter fanfiction sites for "Torpedoeing" the H/Hr shippers ship. Torpedoeing is when the creator proves a way for the ship to cease existing, which did indeed happen and caused the rise of teenage girl suicides after "The Deathly Hallows" by 300%.
[edit] Pokémon
Once upon a time in 1999, 4kids brought the Pokémon animu to America (while removing all references to it ever being Japanese, but that's another story).
After several episodes, fansites popped up with huge forums, where 16 year old girls started asking "OMGZ! U HTHINK ASH AND MISTY LEIK EACHOTHER?". Fair enough question, although they seem to have forgotten Ash is a retard and has the emotional threshhold of a brick. They called the ship "Pokeshipping" or "SatoKasu", the term for the Wapanese.
But then, the yaoi fangirls came out and INSISTED Ash and his rival, Gary, wanted sekrit buttsex with each other. They called it "Palletshipping" because they were both rivals from Pallet town. And then the Palletshippers and Pokeshippers flamed eachother. Then some other people went "NO WAI! BROCK AND MISTTY ARE IN LOVE! IT'S CALLED GYMSHIPPING CUZ THEYS BOTH GYM LEADERS!". And so the Gymshippers flamed the Pokeshippers. And THEN yaoi fangirls of a different kind went "NUH-UH, GIRLFRIEND! ASH AND BROK ARE SOOOOOOOO FUX0RING!". And they called themselves Bouldershippers. And they flamed the Pokeshippers and Palletshippers. AND THEN, Brock left the show for a while and was replaced by that fag, Tracey. And the Gymshippers and Bouldershippers went "OMGWTF?" But then some other shippers showed up and paired Misty with Tracey, and called themselves Orangeshippers because it was the Orange island saga. And they flamed the Gymshippers and the Pokeshippers. And there was also people who shipped Ash and Tracey but I forgot what they were called and don't really give a shit. So anyway, Brock came back and the fag Tracey was left with Professor Oak (which is also shipped, but no one really argues over that since it's canon) and the shipping wars came back to normal for the entirety of the over-padded Johto Journeys.
Then, in 2002 or so, the bomb hit. "MISTY'S LEAVING OMGWTF?!!" That was the reaction when the girl for Advanced Generation, Haruka (later called May by the 4kids fascists), was introduced. Pokeshippers tried to convince themselves that it was still Misty, with different hair and clothes (and bigger tits). But it wasn't, so then they told themselves "OMG, I BET MISTY AND ASH WILL CONFESS THEIR LUUUV AND KISS! AND ASH IS WEARING DIFFERENT CLOTHE NEXT SEASON BECAUSE SHE GAVE THEM TO HIM!!!111". It was not to be. So the Pokeshippers locked themselves in their rooms in defeat, only to come out again repeating "Theys in love, theys in love, theys in love my preciousssssssss....." Somehow, a similar fallout did not happen with Gymshippers. So, May came on the show, with her overdeveloped jailbait tits and ass, and Ash, being dumber than a brick, didn't notice. Despite that, the Advanceshippers formed (But the Wapanese use the term "SatoHaru"). Misty was too much of a bitch for Ash, what he needs is a calmer girl (with a nice rack), right? Here is a much-debated image in that famous argument...who's that bastard in it? Click Herez Well, the distressed-but-determined Pokeshippers weren't going to give up yet, so then came a huger second wave of flamewars (by then, everyone forgot about Gary anyway), also incorporating Contestshipping (May/Drew, who is the kid with that awful green hair) Brock/May shipping (which doesn't have a name, but it makes the most sense since she uses him as a sugar daddy a lot), and even the incestuous pairing of May with her nerd brother, Max. At the end of Advanced generation, nothing happened between Ash and May, but May ended up stalking Drew to another place which declared Contestshipping canon. And so, the Advanceshippers joined the Pokeshippers in repeating deliriously "Theys in love... theys in love". They are now writing lame fanfiction and essays in support of their ship to repair the damage that their brains suffered when their main female character left the show with no hope for return.
The new season Pokemon D/P (for Double Penetration Diamond/Pearl), and the new girl is Hikari... I mean DAWN (nice name, Pokemon USA). She's another jailbait fanservice character, only her service is short skirts instead of big tits. She's kinda like May, only not a ditz. Well, because she simply exists in the show, she and Ash are shipped by Pearlshippers, or is it Diamondshippers (Wapanese use SatoHika)... Though there is also Ikarishipping, pairing Dawn and Shinji (Paul in the Engrish) just so he can be paired with somebody... oh, fuck it, you know what's going to happen. Flamewars all over the place.
You think after all that TL;DR, this part would be done. No, that was just the tip of the iceberg, the twerp ships.
The stars of the show, Team Rocket, have been the center of the most brutal ongoing flamewar outside of Harry Potter fandom, and both sides have ended up looking like fucktards. Jessie and James (oh, they are named after a cowboy, VERY CLEVER DUB NAMES, 4KIDS!!11), through the sheer fact that they are always together (and hugging when they're scared), must be in love. Nevermind James acts like a total faggot (although the Wapanese fans swear this is only because the facists at 4kids hired that faggot, Eric Stuart, to voice him)and Jessie acts like a total whore. BUT THEYS HOLDIN HANDZ IN THA BALLOON! AND THEY GOT MARRIED IN THE MANGA! AND.. UM... JAMES HASN'T SET JESSIE ON FIRE AND PISSED ON HER SHOUTING "I HATE WIMMINZ@@!" SO IT MUST BE LUV! Such is the logic of the Rocketshippers, who might just be forgiven if they kept it to their forums and websites and not infect everywhere else with their OOC fanfic. On the opposite side are a different sort of extremists, the Anti-Rocketshippers. Their rallying place is "satire" site Pokemopolis, run by two sheep fucking kiwis named Tim and Lex who hate Japan and worship 4kids. Despite claiming to be satire, their anti-Rocketshipping stance is serious business. James IS A FAG! AND IT'S FUNNY! AND GOOD! WE LOVE THAT HE'S A STEREOTYPE! HE TOTALLY CAN'T STAND JESSIE! BUT TIM CAN! TIM LOVES JESSIE EVEN THOUGH HE CALLS HER A WHORE! OMGZ, ROCKETSHIPPERS ARE TERRORISTS! LOL! WE'RE KIDDING! BUT WE STILL HATE YOU! Such is the passive-aggressive hypocrisy of Tim and Lex. In reality, Dodgemaster Tim is a self-hating homosexual who wants to fuck James, but he covers it up by lusting after Jessie in a misogynist manner. And Lex is just a bitch.
Like I said, nobody wins this argument. There are a very few people in a grey area in this argument, but they don't bring the lulz so nobody gives a shit about them.
Here is a much-debated image...who's that bastard in it? Click Herez
NOTE: Japanese and Wapanese fans of Pokémon do not use "-shipping", but the equally retarded smushname trend for pairings. And because they use the original names in the smushing, nobody but other Wapanese know what they are talking about. KojiMusa? SatoHaru? Gesundheit!
[edit] Minor Wars
Star Trek: Enterprise: Sad, pathetic, horny old women have debated over whether or not T'Pol should fuck the bigot captain with a stick up his ass for some shit his father went through, or the bigot that hates Vulcans for real reason besides OMG, VULCANZ R T3H SUXXORZ!11oneeleven!!!!!!!!!!!11" The godawful finale sunk a hole into both ships, and plenty of T'Pol/Bigot For No Real Reason shippers bought guns to kill themselves, while T'Pol/Bigot Captain shippers took the chance to gloat about winning the ship war, except they didn't. Whatever. Either way, tons of lulz were to be had by both the sane fans of this fandom, while finally taking the heat off of Voyager's Janeway/Chakotay shippers for being the laughingstock of Trekdom.
Naruto: Naru/Sasu and Sasu/Naru are considered to be two different pairing, despite both involving the same two characters, and anyone who actually believes that is a complete and utter dipshit. Both "Camps" are made of epic fail and AIDS.
Sasu/Naru/Sasu lulz can be found here, where Narutard number 350967565034095 gets their ass handed to them.
Teen Titans: Comedy pimp Beast Boy nailed the trecherous jihad Terra in the second season, she then died defeating Slade. BB had sexual tension with Goth emo witch Raven. Flames aplenty ensued amongst the Terra 'shippers and those for BB and Raven, with the latter experiancing Win when she hugged BB in season three and got mega-pissed at his pimping in "Titans In Tokyo". Terra returned from TEH DEAD!, only to tell BB to stop stalking her in a lame finale that tried to be more of an anime as the show failed at always being
Sonic the Hedgehog: Noted for some of the most fanatical and illogical shipping wars of all, being that there are no mentions of possible love at all in the games. The varying factions are endless, but all want a bunch of characters from a children's video game to have sex. Typical furries. They also create some freakish crossbreed children that no mother could love to seal their WUB.
Stargate Atlantis (Stargate spinoff): "Shepperd wuvs Teyla!" "No, Weir is his one tu wuv!" Populated with fat boyfriend-less emo bitches like Awesomeangel who bash Torri Higginson and call her a hag just because they perceive the character she protrays to be a threat to their preferred ship of Shep/Teyla.
Avatar the Last Airbender: See section "Zutara" for full details.
Bleach: Any and every panel that Ichigo and Rukia share can and will be shown as proof of their love. These folks are like Harry/Harmione shippers, except far fewer in number.
If her show had never been created. She would have probably stayed in Highland long enough for Beavis and Butt-Head to score with her.
Since day one, nothing good came of this operation. Losers continued to pair to pair Daria with some guy named Trent. They shared the same outlook on life. But then Tom came along, who basically is opposite of Daria. But I really don't care if she ends up with him or Trent. In fact, when Daria goes to college, she'll finally come out of the closet and make sweet lesbian love with her bestest friend ever, artschool student Jane Lane.
[edit] OTP
OTP stands for One True Pairing, a ship that its followers cannot stand to see broken. It may be a canon relationship, or one outside of canon, het, or slash, that followers promote. Many fanfic readers search for this specific romantic relationship in the stories they read.
[edit] Shipper mentality
Many people wonder why there are so many people out there concerned with which underage cartoon character fucks the other. Well, no one really knows how people turn out that way. But we do know that the typical shipper is either:
- A lonely idealistic basement-dweller or 16 year old girl who despite being rejected by every real person ever for being a fucktard, is convinced tw00 wuv conquers all and that no fictional character, regardless of how he/she was originally written, should die alone. This is the cause of bad fanfiction where all 230000 characters ever in any series are paired up (usually after the main characters are firmly set up, villians, one-shots, and what have you are paired up for random reasons like "they're both blonde" or something"). This person will, despite all efforts to do otherwise, die alone. That is unless they don't kill themselves from the fact something bad will happen to their OTP oh noes!
- A person (usually female) who is so in luuuuuuuv with her boyfriend, and has such a perfect relationship, she is convinced that everyone in her fandoms must be (or should be) in love too. This type of shipper writes pretty much the same stories as the above, but is more annoying because she'll always add "OMGZ, those two characters are JUST LIKE me and my BF!". The boyfriend, of course, will dump her ass a week later (if he's smart), or he'll die somehow, and she will either renounce shipping and become an emo with a Livejournal full of bad poetry of how love is pointless and futile. Either that or she'll become the first type of shipper.
What love is according to shippers
- Two characters being nice to each other for whatever reason.
- Two characters totally, utterly despising each other. They're just hiding their tw00 wuv. (NOTE: This is most usually used only in slash shipping)
- One character killing another, motivated by aforesaid hatred of the other. (See GoddessMillenia.)
- Two characters meeting at least once.
- Two characters being related by blood
- Two characters in the same frame.
- Two characters existing in the same show.
- Two characters existing. Ever.
[edit] Shippers Say The Darnedest Things
- "So a couple weeks ago, I was insanely bored and was poking around Youtube and I somehow stumbled onto someone who had posted the entire first and second seasons of Digimon (bless them)...
..And then...I get to the Christmas episode in season 2. When Tai asks Sora out and she rejects him because of Matt. And then she goes and marries Matt in the end. And I'm sitting there staring at my computer screen, gaping and trying so hard not to scream. Because its Tai. And its Sora. And its supposed to be Tai and Sora because in the first episode he said that Sora wasn't that bad "for a girl" and Tai was the one who went back and saved Sora when she got captured by that little computer chip digimon in the pyramid and Sora was the one who's always going "stupid Tai" and fighting with him and um, hello, in the movie it was who Tai wrote that email to Sora and freaked out because he signed in "love" and that was so cute and oh my goodness she is not supposed to be with Matt." --Random Digimon fan
- "I hope that all the Tommy and Kat fans will realize that Tommy didn't LOVE Kat the way he LOVED Kimberly!" -Slogan of every Power Rangers fan ever
