Bah, I tend not to be a shipper. Also these days so much fic revolves around obscure ships, that everything that possibly can be shipped will be shipped.
Shipper is a loaded term, I think. Like, if someone is a shipper to the point where they can't enjoy any other pairings or they freak out if canon departs from exactly what they expected, I think that's dumb. But on the other hand I almost literally cannot watch something without coming up with a ship, and I totally skip over gen fic so I pretty much have to claim shipper status 8D
I tend to be the opposite, I never ship two characters, and my enjoyment of a show is never based on whether two characters will or won't get together.
Totally agree on the second part, it drives me buggy when "fans" start hating on something because it's not progressing towards exactly what they had in mind (Harry/Hermione is a good example of that). That's what fan fic is FOR, guys, hello!
Some of what I think of as my ships, I wouldn't actually WANT to see on the show. Like, for example, I have always shipped Tony Soprano/Dr. Melfi. I would never have wanted them to end up together on the show (okay, there was a brief little window where I had my fingers crossed, but so did Tony) because it would have been completely out of character. But that doesn't change the fact that if I found some fic out there with the pairing I would literally jump for joy 8D
A shipper is someone who gets emotionally invested in a relationSHIP in a movie, tv show, book series, etc. It can range anywhere from being obsessed with one particular relationship to just having a casual interest in reading about hot sexin' between two (or three, or however many) characters ;)
I just went to wiki to see how they defined shipping, and I pretty much nailed their definition, but they had this quote from J.K. Rowling that made me laugh:
Well, you see, I'm a relative newcomer to the world of shipping, because for a long time, I didn't go on the net and look up Harry Potter...and then one day I did and oh - my - god. Five hours later or something, I get up from the computer shaking slightly [all laugh]. ‘What is going on?’ And it was during that first mammoth session that I met the shippers, and it was a most extraordinary thing. I had no idea there was this huge underworld seething beneath me.
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Some of what I think of as my ships, I wouldn't actually WANT to see on the show. Like, for example, I have always shipped Tony Soprano/Dr. Melfi. I would never have wanted them to end up together on the show (okay, there was a brief little window where I had my fingers crossed, but so did Tony) because it would have been completely out of character. But that doesn't change the fact that if I found some fic out there with the pairing I would literally jump for joy 8D
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What in the hell is a shipper?
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I just went to wiki to see how they defined shipping, and I pretty much nailed their definition, but they had this quote from J.K. Rowling that made me laugh:
Well, you see, I'm a relative newcomer to the world of shipping, because for a long time, I didn't go on the net and look up Harry Potter...and then one day I did and oh - my - god. Five hours later or something, I get up from the computer shaking slightly [all laugh]. ‘What is going on?’ And it was during that first mammoth session that I met the shippers, and it was a most extraordinary thing. I had no idea there was this huge underworld seething beneath me.
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