Shipping--the eternal joy of every fangirl everywhere. Nothing beats it when the ones that you ship for finally get together. I have to pause here for awhile before I make some ignorant people who might spend their time reading this rant more confused (“Shipping? What the hell is that?”).
The term “shipping” is taken from the word “relationship”. Rooting for a relationship of the romantic kind between characters of a story (book, motion picture, manga, game--basically any kind of story that you can think of) is what shipping is all about. Sounds familiar, huh? Even when one is not familiar with this fan-created term, I don’t think that the activity is at all new to you.
What’s so great about shipping anyway? Besides the fact that it serves your appetite for romantic corniness (;p),it’s a nice diversion during the long wait of a story’s next installment. And when a story has the probability of ending up bleakly--by character’s death, for example--shipping is definitely better than distressed over the angsty future.
You can ship all you like, be it the characters which have good chance of ending up together or not. It’s all for the sake of your own amusement and there shouldn’t be any problem with that. For example, I ship for Luna Lovegood and George Weasley of “Harry Potter” (after reading some good Luna/George fics at FanFiction.Net--one of them is “The Dateless Wonders” which I highly recommend). As far as I can remember, these two never appeared together on the story which makes it quite impossible for them of having a romantic relationship. However, the idea of Luna and George together is such interesting to play out with that I couldn’t resist the temptation to ship them.
Unfortunately, shipping can be a pretty touchy subject at times. If you liked a couple very much, you’d probably detest other shippers who shipped different pairs. You would put forth evidences to back up the plausibility of the pair you’re shipping for. This would lead to shipping battles, which could be easily found in many sites and online forum out there.
Personally, I think that shipping battle somewhat beats the purpose--which is why I never involve myself in it. If your ship doesn’t work (the real story nullifies your pair), don’t get angry at the author and refuse to read the real story ever again--just write your own fanfiction. If you disprove other ships, ignore them--look out for a shipping community that you’re actually fond of. Just as simple as that.
The point is, shipping about having as much fun as you want to with those characters. So, don’t brood too much over it. Expand your horizon, use your imagination. Or something like that.
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