Damned Shipping

After havin' read articles, I've decided to share my own opinions, and hopefully, for you to share yours without actually tryin' to kill each other in the process

Shipping (short for relationshipping) is a practice in which fans of a multimedia franchise (typically anime) will decide to create and support a couple not established in the original design or an already established canon couple. The whole shipping community itself consists of mostly female fans/fangirls.

While shipping of canon couples is excusable most of the time, the shipping for Non-canon shipped couples is a different story. These non-canon couples are created by using even the LITTLEST of hints or because of their general attractiveness when two characters in particular are seen in one scene. It's no surprise to see that most of these will contain homosexual male (gay) pairings or pairings that were sorta implied or coulda been but the author behind the original story decided to go a different direction. Yuri pairings are pretty rare though.

Shipping can tend to really get out of hand unfortunately. Like video game and comic fans, shippers can get hideously competitive or offensive when either argues about which couple is better. Unfortunately, these heated debates are never quite resolved maturely since one or the other will not accept that it's either ultimately coming down to one's personal preference (though that preference isn't really smart at all) or they can't do anything about it because the creator of the series said so.

So the simple question is: Why? No matter how much you ship this or that pairing, no matter how you 'perfect' these two go together, even though the mere thought of it is horrendous, it'll never happen. No matter how much you hate this or that established canon pairing, no amount of b*tchfitting is gonn change a thing, and in the end, everybody is a little more angry...oh yeah, I know. >.>;

Please share yer opinions and please people, do not get all methodical/sensitive/complicated, etc. about it.