Do I not understand shipping?
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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