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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 10 points 4 days ago (5 children)

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

[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 4 days ago (3 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 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

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

Julian and Garak

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago

It's not a ship if its real

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