I'm full fujo trash and yet I have never understood, for the life of me, people who ship real, breathing people. Don't care if it's queer or straight, I've always hated it, and I get so mad when I see how Real Person Fanfiction (RPF) will have thousands of docs on AO3, while some of my fandoms are starved for scraps. Like I wish I had no standards and liked reality, but alas, I can't get into it.

Maybe it's just cause I'm not invested in romance outside of 2d characters but god...

[–] notarobot@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago

I thought you were talking about human trafficking. Like "those delinquents are very inconsiderate to to their victims. They should as if they are gay". Thankfully, someone explained

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

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

[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 days 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 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

It's not a ship if its real

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 2 days ago

Thanks for asking