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Shipping, initially derived from the word relationship, is the desire by fans for two or more people, either real-life celebrities or fictional characters, to be in a relationship, romantic or otherwise. 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. Shipping can involve virtually any kind of relationship: from the well-known and established, to the ambiguous or those undergoing development, and even to the highly improbable or blatantly impossible. Though "shipping" usually refers to romantic relationships, it can also refer to simple friendships; this subset is sometimes known as "friendshipping", or a "BrOTP" (a portmanteau of the terms ''bromance'' and ''one true pairing''). Shipping in fan fiction between a same-sex couple is also known as slash fiction, an older term and concept that dates to the late 1970s. In anime/manga communities, shipping is more commonly referred to as pairing(s); in Filipino pop culture, it is frequently called loveteam(s). In East Asian contexts, the practice is also referred to as coupling or CP. ==Etymology== The activity of fans creating relationships for fictional characters far predates the term. Though the word "ship" is a truncation of "relationship", where and when it was first used to indicate involvement with fictional relationships is unclear. The first "ship" that became widely popular and accepted was the characters Kirk and Spock from the television show ''Star Trek''. This began in the mid-1970s, and was often referred to as Kirk/Spock, and later "K/S". This is why relationships between two men are now often referred to as "slash". The actual term "shipping" was originated in the mid-1990s by internet fans of the TV show ''The X-Files'', who believed the two main characters, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, should be or were engaged in a romantic relationship.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 alt.tv.x-files Greatest Threads of All Time )〕 They called themselves "relationshippers," at first;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 alt.tv.x-files Her *name * is *Bambi *? (use of 'relationshipper') )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 alt.tv.homicide Expunge cleverness (use of 'relationshipping') )〕 then R'shipper,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 alt.tv.x-files.creative NEW: TITLE 17 () (use of "R'shipper") )〕 'shipper, and finally just shipper.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 alt.tv.x-files My problem with 'anti-relationshippers'.... (use of 'shipper' in post 85) )〕 The oldest uses of the nouns ''ship'' and ''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. Its earliest attestation of the verb ''to ship'', on the other hand, comes from 2005, from the printed version of the Urban Dictionary. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shipping (fandom)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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