Shipper
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In May 1995, X-Files fans begin using the word Shipper for the first time. [1]
Currently, shipper is a word that is used to describe a fan's preference for characters' relationships.
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[edit] Historical Definitions
The following definition dates to March 2001 on Shipper World:
- A shipper is someone who is in favour of a relationship between two lead characters on a TV program or book/film. ‘Shipper’ is used when someone is in favour of a male/female romantic relationship. (There are also the 'shippers of the same gender-relationships but - for now - that doesn't concern Shipperworld. The only main difference is that their fanfiction is a different category to male/female romance fanfiction - it's called 'slash fiction' because of the '/' used when listing the characters involved.)[2]
The following definition dates to May 2004 in the Harry Potter, Horatio Hornblower and Pirates of the Caribbean fandoms:
- Ships and Shipper:
- this is a term that I’ve only seen (so far) in the Harry Potter fandom. A ’ship (relationship) is a romantic pairing of two canon characters—it can be het or slash. Shippers are writers and readers of a particular ship—like the Ron/Hermione ship or the Remus/Sirius ship.[3]
The following definition dates to December 5, 2005 in the Thunder Cats fandom:
- shipper: Derived from 'relationship', it means someone who's gung-ho for certain romantic pairings in fan fics. Say, if you love fics that pair Lion-O with Cheetara, you could be said to be a shipper for them.;)[4]
[edit] History
The use of this term predates 1995.
[edit] Examples
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