![]() Portmanteaus and clipped compounds are used not only to abbreviate character pairings but also to create a name for the ship itself. Name blending is often used to refer to a couple, like 'Reylo' for Kylo Ren and Rey in Star Wars franchise, 'Destiel' for Dean Winchester and Castiel in the Supernatural TV series, and 'Bubbline' referring to Princess Bubblegum and Marceline the Vampire Queen in Adventure Time. This is today mainly used for same-sex ships fanfiction with these pairings is known as slash fiction. The first method deployed was using a slash, first used for Kirk/Spock. Various naming conventions have developed in different online communities to refer to prospective couples, likely due to the ambiguity and cumbersomeness of the "Character 1 and Character 2" format. ![]() When discussing shipping, a ship that has been confirmed by its series is called a canon ship or sailed ship, whereas a sunk ship is a ship that has been proven unable to exist in canon, or in other words, will never be real nor confirmed. ![]() A ship that a particular fan prefers over all others is called an OTP, which stands for one true pairing. "Shipping" refers to the phenomenon a "ship" is the concept of a fictional couple to "ship" a couple means to have an affinity for it in one way or another a "shipper" or a "fangirl/boy" is somebody significantly involved with such an affinity a "shipping war" is when two ships contradict each other, causing fans of each ship to argue. "Ship" and its derivatives in this context have since come to be in wide and versatile use. The oldest uses of the noun ship and the noun shipper, as recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary, date back to 1996 postings on the Usenet group alt.tv.x-files shipping is first attested slightly later, in 1997 and the verb to ship in 1998. They called themselves "relationshippers," at first then R'shipper, 'shipper, and finally just shipper. The actual usage of the term "ship" saw its origin around 1995 by internet fans of the TV show The X-Files, who believed the two main characters, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, should be engaged in a romantic relationship.
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