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Do I not understand shipping?

Clover Heart

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Okay, there's something that's been sorta bugging me, lately. That is the usage of the word "ship."

 

My idea was always that to ship someone was to pair two characters together, in your fan fic, headcanon, fantasies, etc. So, some common MLP ships, I think, are, like, Spike and Rarity, Fluttershy and Big Mac or Lyra and Bonbon. You can ship these characters together because they aren't canonically together. That's long been my understanding of the term "ship."

 

However, now, it seems like people are using it to just mean... whatever they want? Like, I see people saying that they ship characters who are already together. You didn't ship them. The creator did. Like, someone saying that they ship Shining Armor and Cadance. Like, you can't do that. They're already shipped. By the creators. It's canon. You can't act upon something which has already been acted upon, which is to say that you can't put two characters into a relationship that are already in a relationship. They're already there. The only way I can see it making any sense is if you, say, write a fan fic about their relationship or something, but even then, you're not putting those characters together; someone else did.

 

Am I right in thinking this? Or do I not understand how shipping works? I'm so confused...

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BastementSparkle

Well, I guess it's just whatever romantic pairings that person "Supports" if you will. Like, they could be shipping Cadance with Big Mac or Chrysalis or somepony else instead of Shining, but they like her more with Shining, so they ship her with him.

 

 It's basically just any romantic relationship you like to "Ship" canon or not.

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Lightwing

The concept of shipping can be on a serious way, but also on a fun way. As you know, many people ship things (myself included), and the concept and act of shipping doesn't harm on any way.

 

For example, I could ship Twilight and Cadence, due for their relationship since they were young (on an hyphotetic case), but she's canonically with Shining Armor. And I ask a question...

And what?

Shipping doesn't harm on any way the integrity of any character at all , and you may like it or not, but everyone is on their right to ship what they see as a good pairing, no matter what. I would be lying if I say that Cadence or Shining Armor are shipped only and exclusively with each other, when that's a lie.

 

You got a point on saying that the creators shipped the canon pairing, but it doesn't really matter at the end, as everyone can support it or not, ergo the term "I ship it". There is people that doesn't support the shipping, even when is canonical, and that cannot change.

 

Everyone has a view of your shipping (put as an example), and everyone ships someonr on their own way. The creators made the concept, but the final word about if that shipping...well, works, is from us. Do you ship it? Do you see it working?

Then you are shipping it for yourself, not the creators.

 

Enought said.

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