Shipping 101

Natublag kaw bala nga bukon si Hermione Granger ang nadayunan ni Harry Potter? Ukon nasubuan sa waay natigayon nga romance ni Black Widow kag Incredible Hulk pay nakalumbayag gamay sa pagpili ni Steve Rogers nga mag-imaw kay Peggy Carter? Isa man bala ikaw sa mga nagapati nga ang Touch Your Heart is the proper love story of Sunny & Grim Reaper in an alternate universe? Basi nagalaum pa ikaw nga magbalikanay ang Brangelina ukon magka "comeback" movie man lang ang Sharon-Gabby love team... Kun affected ikaw sa mga lives & loves ka mga fictional characters, as well as mga actors who played them... then God bless your shipper's heart!💖💘💔

But wait... ano sayuron ang "shipper's heart"? Kag ano dya sahi ka "ship"?

Mulder & Scully, The X-Files (1993-2002)

Shipping (in Fandoms)

Sa mga paralantaw kag parabasa, indi man naton hungod pay makabig dun kita nga pumuluyo ka fandom (a community of fans, be they online or off, active or passive). Kapin pa gid kun mahuyugon kita magtiriripon (usually sa kapehan) kag maghadak kang latest updates sa Hollywood/K-Ent/Showbiz tsismis ukon magdayday ka mga characters, themes & tropes sa aton mga nabasahan ukon nalantawan. Admit it. You're a fangirl, iyay!

Perhaps the single most popular fandom activity is shipping. Amo dya ang ultimate damgo, handum kag dumot ka fans for two or more people (ang OTP or One True Pairing), either real-life people or fictional characters (in film, literature, television, etc.) to be in a romantic relationship. Dugang pa ni Wikipedia, "It is considered a general term for fans' emotional involvement with the ongoing development of a relationship in a work of fiction. Shipping often takes the form of creative works, including fanfiction and fan art, most often published on the internet. However, shipping can involve virtually any kind of relationship- from the well-known and established, through the ambiguous or those undergoing development, and even all the way to the highly improbable and the blatantly impossible."

Ang term nga "ship" naghalin sa "relationship" nga nag originate sa 1995 internet fandom kang The X-Files (sanda liwat? See post kun ano pa gid ang gin originate ka series nga dya), who believed the two main characters, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, should be or were engaged in a romantic relationship. Ginahawat-hawat abi ang fans sa Unresolved Sexual Tension ka main leads mo... (Ah, “UST” the bane and bread and butter of shippers everywhere!) They called themselves "relationshippers," at first, but eventually nahimo dlang nga "shipper". Raku gid nga ships ang nahimo tungod lang sa on-screen chemistry ka actors.. di bala Gingging? 😉😉😉 Amo man dya ang basis insa mahilig kita nga mga Pinoy sa Love Teams. May nakita lang nga spark gamay, love gid dayon...

Sheryl Cruz & Romnick Sarmenta

Tulad it is a phenomenon universally accepted nga if you "ship" a pair of characters, they become a ship and you become a shipper. Often the shippers behind different ships fight for dominance within a fandom; these are called ship wars. Parehos bi sa series nga Buffy the Vampire Slayer, sin-o mas gusto mo para kay Buffy? Are you team Angel ukon team Spike? Ukon sa Meteor Garden, are you team Dao Ming or team Lei? And let's not get started sa mga inaway nga dya kang mga Love Teams... basta ako maka Wednesday group ako sa That's Entertainment kauna.

Ships are also frequently referred to as pairings, and more colloquially they are commonly called by their "pairing names". These are formed by joining the names of the two halves of the pairing together à la Bennifer (Ben & Jennifer) and Brangelina (Brad & Angelina) or BinJin (Hyun Bin & Son Ye Jin) and DongFeng (Donghua & Fengjiu). Ang ship that has been confirmed by its series is called a canon ship or sailed ship (Shan Cai chose Dao Ming Si kag Bella married Edward), whereas a sunk ship is a ship that has been proven unable to exist in canon. (Sorry Gunther but Rachel is for Ross.)

Te, nakapira kaw run ka ships nga nahimo kag ginsakyan? Madumduman mo pa ayhan ang pinakauna mo nga ship? Akon laban ko nga ships mga fictional characters (usually mga canons napili ko because I want certainty - sorry Moyuan but Bai Qian is for Yehua), kag naki love team man ako kato anay (Ah mga Young Love Sweet Love teams ni Kuya Germs)... tulad dulang gani ako (kun san-o nagmal-it nga laon) nakiki-ship sa mga taga K-Ent (like BinJin & MinGo - my biasessessesses🥰) kag ang GuangRe (Gao Weiguang & Dilraba Dimurat) my main ship 🚢

More on shipping in future posts!

references: https://www.vox.com/2016/6/7/11858680/fandom-glossary-fanfiction-explained; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipping_(fandom)

pics from https://pbs.twimg.com/media/; https://telltaletv.com/2015/12/the-x-files-10-times-mulder-and-scully-brought-ust-to-another-level/