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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 10 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

"ship real life people" what does this mean "to ship people"?

[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It means thinking they should be together in a relationship (ship comes from the word relationship, I believe). This is a thing that people do a lot in fandoms for fiction stuff. Like shipping two characters together from comics or a TV show or whatever.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

And Lemmy itself does one example of shipping that is iconic:

Julian and Garak

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 8 points 16 hours ago

It's not a ship if its real

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

We didn't do that, the writers of Deep Space 9 did. We just like that they did. A lot.

[–] notarobot@lemm.ee 2 points 16 hours ago

Thanks for asking