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Shipping Glossary

het ship: A ship between a male character and a female character.

OTP: One true pairing. Refers to the shippers prefered ship for the characters involved.

self ship: A ship between a canon character and the shipper themselves, or their self insert OC.

rarepair: A ship considered rare in the fandom, rather than one of the popular ships.

crack ship: A ship considered to be so unusual or out there the shipper would have to be on drugs to have come up with it.

slash ship: A ship between two male characters. Sometimes called yaoi.

femslash ship: A ship between two female characters, sometimes called yuri.

poly ship: A ship between more than two characters at the same time.

canon ship: A ship that is considered to be canon within the source material.

toy ship: A ship between two child characters

teen ship: A ship between two teen characters

tag ship: A a ship between a teen character and a child character

cradle ship: A ship between an a child character and an adult character

xgen ship: A ship between a teen character and an adult character

may ship: A ship between two adult characters who have an age gap

shipcest: A ship between two related characters. Also styled kin ship.

twincest: A ship between twin siblings. Also styled twin ship.

selfcest: A ship between two different versions of the same character. Not to be confused with a self ship.

lock ship: A ship involving noncon elements.

pick ship: a ship involving dubcon elements

scale ship: A ship involving a significant power imbalance other than the age of the characters

companion ship: A ship between a human character and a nonhuman (generally feral furry) character.

dimmer ship: A ship written in some way to be darker than fandom generally perceives the ship to be.

blackrom ship: A romantic ship between rivals or enemies. Also called foe yay or rival ship. A ship where the characters remain opposed, despite being romantically involved.

E2 ship: Enemies to lovers. A ship that starts off between enemies, and progressively softens until the characters are no longer enemies.

ghost ship: A ship where one character is alive, and the other is dead.

cargo ship: A ship between a character and an inanimate object.

mentor ship: A ship between a character and their mentor figure.

robo ship: A ship between a robot character and a non robot character.

yandere ship: A ship in which at least one character is a yandere.

rpf ship: Ship about real life people in a fictional context.

starboard ship: A one-sided relationship, or a ship where one character’s affection isn’t returned.

Saw that ask about wrightworth and toxic ships dynamic that it feels other fuck up and it was funnyto me since i kind of do the opposite for one of my ships? I’m a big kriswright fan and while it does seem like they’re semi-popular in the fandom, people really like to heavy hand the ship toxicity in fanon as wright being an owo baby who’s being destroyed by kirstoph. I’m either a big fan of the mutual maipulation and playing each one or even just kind of making them super domestic. I guess it’s just different strokes for different folks lol.

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Different strokes for different folks is right. Everybody has a different interpertation.

I like it that way. I hate the idea of seeing characters only from one perspective.

Bro this happened to me recently and I’m still like ???? about itso a bit ago I posted an essay on ao3 breaking down the dynamics to one of the biggest ships in my fandom and showing, without a doubt, with evidence from the text (in-text citations, my beloved!) it’s canonically a toxic mess so the antis (who are naturally all about EWWWWW TOXIC!!!) who are so in love with it simply because it’s lgbt are hypocrites for shipping it (because of COURSE they ignore the toxicity *ahem* I mean sexual tension when it’s THEIR favorite, they’re the special exception to the rules)I got a comment from someone who sounds very much like an old anti I used to hang around and I’m 60% sure it actually is them. It was a first comment, and the anti I used to know deleted their ao3 account recently (I was rereading one of my old works when I saw their account was deleted) and seems to be gone off social media. Which. Good riddance. But now I think they could be anywhere.I’ve responded to all comments I got on my essay except theirs because it’s sus to me.

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I feel you, fam, do not engage with any comments that you feel are sus. There’s no reason to.

Also, would love to read this essay, but I’m a nosy guy.

Hello! I just saw your post about how its fine to not like your fandoms popular ship, and I just really appreciate it. I don’t really like either of the two juggernaut ships in my fandom (one I actually used to like, and now I just kinda hate it) and it makes me feel bad sometimes. ;^;

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There is no need to feel bad, anon. Shipping and fandom is for fun. You don’t have to participate in any part of fandom that doesn’t make you happy.

adding onto what the other anon said, antis wouldn’t survive 00’s or early 10’s fandoms for a million other reasons- because antis weren’t a widespread phenomenon and so many of THE most popular ships were “problematic”. Kim Possible x Shego, ZADR, Billdip…the list goes on.

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Yep. Up until The Voltron Discourse, and The Reylo Discourse after it, spicy ships were the norm.

That’s because conflict is the core of good storytelling, and good storytelling is the key to an appealing ship.

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i fucking hate proship/anti discourse because i feel like the fact that those words even exist is fucked up. it takes an issue (that people are drawing porn of underage characters and posting that shit on the internet) and turns it into fandom discourse that sounds silly and absurd to anyone not involved deeply in fandom. if you go on twitter and say shit like “drawing CP is bad” you’ll get people telling you actually, it’s not real, so it’s ok. it’s wild. it’s not ok legally or morally to draw and post porn of underage characters on the internet and it’s not ok to defend it. labelling your passion for CP as being a “proshipper” because “fiction doesn’t affect reality” is absurd. how about you use your critical thinking skills and ponder the complex and fascinating relationship between fiction and real life. or how about you use your brain at all and realise that you should not be shipping a teen and an adult in their 30s, even if theyre fictional. proshippers get a life challenge

#i dont like talking about this shit too much but i do have a lot of thoughts on it#yeehaws#proship discourse#this might be the last i say about it for a while because i fucking hate it#literally just be a decent human with empathy and understanding and be nice to others

  1. If you are in the USA, it is absolutely legal to draw or write about fictional underage characters having sex. The only time it’s illegal is if it’s an image that is indistinguishable from a photograph.
  2. Whether you think its moral to create fiction that depicts immoral behavior is a subjective question. Most normal people think that’s fine.
  3. Calling it “CP” is extremely dismissive to actual survivors of CSA. Comparing drawings to actually child sexual exploitation material is extremely dismissive to the suffering of actual survivors of CSA.
  4. antis get a life and tell fiction apart from reality for once challenge.
  5. claims he doesn’t like to start discourse, writes an anti-proship discourse screed.

I hate it when antis are like “I used to think xyz was normal cuz I saw someone’s art/fic/headcanon therefore we shouldn’t post those things” – sweetie maybe if you rely on social media and fandoms to tell you what’s right or wrong you aren’t old/mature enough to be wandering around on social media and fandoms at all. Go interact with people you know irl, play offline games or whatever – but don’t go around fandoms talking to absolute strangers cuz it can turn very dangerous if you’re that trusting and gullible. I honestly think kids under 15-16 should avoid befriending strangers onlineAntis act like sexual grooming is the only terrible thing that can happen online but that’s far from truth. Extremely young people (especially neurodivergent) are also at risk of being guilty tripped into something by their online friends, to be financially scammed, groomed into ideologies (ahem, terfs, nazism and so on), be doxxed or get emotionally abused. If you cannot tell what proper boundaries look like, what is considered right and wrong irl – then don’t engage with strangers on internet at all. Especially on places like discord or tiktok, which are swamped by scammers and predators of all kindsNoone in fandom is anyone’s parent, none is responsible for what message you might get out of their arts or fics. If you see someone’s fic about 14y/o secretly dating an adult and think that’s actually normal irl then I’m sorry to tell you kid but that misconception is on you. Because at the end of the day you can always ask someone you trust irl “hey I saw xyz online, is that actually alright?” – just educate yourself ffs

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This whole post is great, anon, but particularly “antis act like grooming is the only bad thing that can happen online” is a fantastic observation.

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“But what if a child sees this content?”

This content is appropriate for, and within the rules of the platform that it was posted to.

It is not my job to moderate the content of a site to a higher degree than the actual site moderators.

Children who are uncomfortable with the content posted to a site where it is allowed to be should remove themselves to a site that is more heavily moderated.

Antis are trying to moderate the content of spaces that are not moderated to the degree they prefer.

Antis are mini-modding.

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Um okay so, like, how old were you when you thought that was okay, and why do you feel like that was proshippers fault? You were ten? Uhuh.

It’s not a writers fault that you personally can’t tell the difference between a story and a good idea in reality.