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{{quote|''"And what fastens attention [...] like any passage betraying affection between two parties? [...] We see them exchange a glance or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover."''
|'''Ralph Waldo Emerson'''}}
Rooting for fictional romance to happen.
The term '''"Shipping"
Of all the obsessions that universally afflict fandom,
Somehow, this leads to vitriolic forum threads with a hundred times the activity of all the other threads in the forum combined, titled something like "[[Ship
Shipping is all about the anticipation. Paragraphs and essays and counter-essays weighing megabytes at dozens of pages will be written about who ''will'' get together, who ''should'' get together, and what the disciplines of political science and feminism and probability theory have to say about the issue (the above is [[Not Hyperbole]]). No ecstatic shipper has ever written a gigantic dissertation titled "Hurray!! [[Alice and Bob]]! FINALLY!!" or any fandom equivalent. People will argue endlessly about the romantic future of nearly any given ensemble, but if that point should actually be resolved, the discussions will basically go through a round of ranting and gloating and then unceremoniously run out of steam.
That's probably because anticipation is something that's easy to feel you're a part of, even if the anticipation is for something fictional. Real life romance, for all its shortcomings, actually ''happens'' for us [[Real Life]] people: We move on from looking forward to something great to experiencing something great (or at least we can hope). Fictional romance not so. Actually being in a romantic relationship and getting to watch a fictional romantic relationship are ''very'' different things, much more different than looking forward to each of those respectively. The contrast is
[[Canon]] and authorial intent do not dictate people's shipping preference. You'd be hard-pressed to find ''anything'' that honestly puts any sort of restraint on shipping preference. Characters may be shipped despite being [[Toy Ship|still in grade school]], [[Het Is Ew|of the wrong sexuality]], [[Brother
Shippers have a reputation of insane devotion to their [[OTP|One True Pairing]] and of [[Shipping Goggles|interpreting the tiniest, most ambiguous details as evidence]]. That much is clear by the prevalence of [[Shipping Wars]] in any fandom discussion. In some extreme cases they will freely admit to [[Die for Our Ship|actively rooting for sympathetic characters to die just to get them out of the way]], or worse, they'll [[Insane Troll Logic|come to the conclusion]] that [[Ron the Death Eater|since a character is in the way, they are by definition not sympathetic]]. On the bright side, you can expect them to be friendly at least towards their [[Ship Mates|natural allies]] and have some limit of how severely they can be starved for validation before they [[Abandon Shipping]]. That is, if they ever expected to be validated in the first place.
Frequently authors know full well how loaded the subject is and [[Ship Tease|tease the audience of actual and potential shippers]], sometimes to the extreme of [[Shipper
There's a whole nomenclature dedicated to Quick, Easy and [[Idiosyncratic Ship Naming]], often varying from fandom to fandom. The most basic tool of communication here is the
{{noexamples|As far as omnipresent forces of nature go, shipping is up there with [[The Three Certainties in Life|Death and Taxes]]; an "Example Section" would just be a list of works popular enough to have a member of their fandom happen to come across this page.}} Suffice to say that on any show, "Alice/Bob is popular and so is Eve/Mallory, though there is [[Shipping Wars|lots of vitriol]] between supporters of Gum/Popsicle and Twix/Popsicle", up to minor variations. For an example with some unique flavor to it, you might want to look into [[Shipping Tropes]].▼
▲As far as omnipresent forces of nature go, shipping is up there with [[The Three Certainties in Life|Death and Taxes]]; an "Example Section" would just be a list of works popular enough to have a member of their fandom happen to come across this page. Suffice to say that on any show, "Alice/Bob is popular and so is Eve/Mallory, though there is [[Shipping Wars|lots of vitriol]] between supporters of Gum/Popsicle and Twix/Popsicle", up to minor variations. For an example with some unique flavor to it, you might want to look into [[Shipping Tropes]].
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