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- The term " shipping," derived from "relationshipping," initially emerged in the mid-1990s within the X-Files fandom to refer to the fan practice of supporting a hypothetical romantic relationship between the main protagonists, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. [ 1][ 2] Supporters of romance between the two characters titled themselves "shippers," seeing it as the inevitable resolution of the show's unresolved sexual tension.
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Fanfiction - Fanfiction is when someone takes either the story or characters (or both) of a certain piece of work, whether it be a novel, TV show, movie, etc., and create their own story based on it. Sometimes people will take characters from one media and put them in another, which is called a cross-over.
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" Shipping ," or "ship," is an important aspect of fan culture and serves as the important backbone of several fandoms across the internet. To "ship" a character with another is to imagine (and to hope!) that the two enter a relationship with each other.
Shipping often takes the form of creative works on the internet, including fanfiction and fanart. A 'ship' refers to the relationship supported, while 'shipping' refers to the phenomenon. The pairings of characters are typically given names—usually portmanteau of the characters names.
Shipping (derived from the word relationship) is the term for the desire by followers of a fandom for two or more people, either real-life people or fictional characters (in film, literature, television series, etc.), to be in a romantic relationship.
Shippers often turned to fanfiction to depict romantic and sexual interactions between the characters, leading to contemporary fanfiction websites aligned with either camp. The term later broadened to include supporters of any fan pairing of fictional characters.
Someone who ships is known as a shipper or rarely a relationshipper or, when referring to a particular pairing, a " [Character X] and [Character Y] shipper" or a " [Ship name] shipper" or " [Ship name] fan".