Shipping (fandom)

Shipper (from tight. Derived relationship, dt relationship) are people who get involved emotionally, while pursuing the development of romantic relationships in a novel, a television series, or other fictional narrative. This can cause their own ideas about the future course of these relationships.

Shipper can not only emotionally empathize with a fictional love affair, but also use a lot of their time to be able to see the figures in question together.

Shipper that deal with the same work, often in exchange Internet forums about their ideas and discuss the prospects of the ongoing selected love relationships. Sometimes even videos will be created (if it is a movie or show is ), in which so-called cut together " Shippy scenes " and will be accompanied by music. Very popular, it is also to draw Fan -Arts, where the partners of a favorite pair are shown. With great zeal and Fan Fictions be created that tell of how the couple gets together and builds a love relationship. Meanwhile, even to find many websites that are dedicated to only a certain fictional couples.

The " Shipping" is limited not only referring to heterosexual relationships. On the contrary, homosexual couples sometimes tremendously popular among fans even more popular.

Origin of the term

It is believed that the term " Shipper " has its origin in the X-Files fandom. The first detectable even mention the term is a conversation in a newsgroup from Google. Since the archives for the Google Groups but not far enough back enough and the expression at this time under the X-Files - The Files already seems so common, it is believed that he first appeared around 1994.