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[-] atro_city@fedia.io 10 points 8 months ago

"ship real life people" what does this mean "to ship people"?

[-] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 8 months ago

It means thinking they should be together in a relationship (ship comes from the word relationship, I believe). This is a thing that people do a lot in fandoms for fiction stuff. Like shipping two characters together from comics or a TV show or whatever.

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

And Lemmy itself does one example of shipping that is iconic:

Julian and Garak

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago

It's not a ship if its real

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

We didn't do that, the writers of Deep Space 9 did. We just like that they did. A lot.

[-] notarobot@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

Thanks for asking

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