It means that people start campaigning for or writing fanfic about the two characters getting into a relationship.
Basically, it’s a term for how some fans want every story to be a love story. Like The X-Files, for example - they would want to drop all the stuff about investigating government conspiracies and have the show focus on Mulder and Scully falling in love. Or Jack and Kate. Or House and Cuddy. Or Picard and Crusher.
These fans obsess about the “relationship” between the two characters they feel should be together and this got abbreviated to “shipping”.
So … how you doin’?
BEVERLY Crusher…although I’m not enough of a betting man to make a wager against there being at least one piece of Jean-Luc/Wesley slash out there somewhere…
On the internet? There’s going to be Beverly/Wesley stories. Heck there’s probably stories where Spock hooks up with Horta.
Or McCoy/Horta…
KIRK: [banging on door] Bones? What are you doing in there?
MCCOY: Um… bricklaying, Jim!
Yeah I know that feeling. I even watched Glee yesterday. 
:dubious: :eek: 
(Come to think of it, that may be the progression of Bones’ facial expressions during the scene in question, too…)
Rule 34, dude.
Hey, I said I wouldn’t take that bet! I’ve been on the Web since '96. I know the pitfalls…
That’s not quite correct. “Shipping” just means that the fan wants a particular pairing to happen on the show. It doesn’t necessarily mean they want the show to focus on that pairing to the exclusion of everything else, although there are certainly some fans like that. If I like an action show that often features romantic subplots, and I want to see a romantic subplot between two particular characters, I could be said to be shipping those characters, even though I don’t want the romantic subplots to take over the entire show. I could even want the show to focus less on the romance aspect overall, and still be a shipper.
You don’t have to want a ship to become canon to ship it, either. I used to ship Harry/Draco, but I never wanted it to be the canon outcome- I just wanted to read a lot of Harry/Draco fic.
haha… where’s that coy, blushing smiley?:eek:
So ‘Shipping’… I get it. relationSHIP –> SHIP –> Shipping.
Thx.
Hanners, Marigold, Enright - this strip’s got a lot of people exploring new areas.
Enright?
See this quote:
Not even necessarily that - some 'shippers are quite happy to have their OTP (One True Pairing…there’s also the OT3 variant when people 'ship 3 characters together) remaining non-canon, just content with fanfic, fan-art, etc.
Crack 'shippers would be a HELL of a lot more scary if they actually wanted their 'ships to become canon… :eek:
Who Me? 
Oh… 
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Okay - we knew Sven was broken, but this is really a level of brokenness I didn’t expect.
Goodbye, Faye/Marten/Dora love triangle, hello Sven/Faye/Angus love triangle.