Remind me NOT to drink anything while reading on Dynasty again ...
I can just hear Mari saying that last line in her perfect english tho. SHINY

Surprisingly, it worked about half the time

What the fuck
He better be really hot or something

I'm new at this, so I find this conversation confusing. What do we mean by "shipping" in this context?

I guess when I think of "shipping", I think of creating media which features a particular pairing. I am writing A Thing featuring Saejima and Ichiha from Valkyrie Drive, so I am shipping those two.

Contextually from this conversation and from other conversations here, however, I infer that I am possibly defining the term incorrectly.

i recognized this original if isn't touhou tag

Surprisingly, it worked about half the time

What the fuck
He better be really hot or something

I think it was more that he chose his targets wisely.

everyones know that you is best girl

Yeah, "shipping" doesn't require actually creating media. It's the fan speculation of two (or more) characters being together, sometimes even when they actually do get together in the series (so it's possible for people so 'ship Simon and Nia if that's their preferred arrangement).

That said, this is the sort of thing I'd consider a "crack ship" since there's almost nothing in the source material to work from other than both are female. It's an "out of left field" thing that most people wouldn't expect. Which, I hasten to add, doesn't make it bad or anything. Just tremendously unexpected.

Ah. So the people who are annoyed by this ship are simply annoyed that other people Aren't Having Fun Properly?

Like, I am trying to fathom why anybody would legitimately give a shit. You see a pairing you don't like, you shrug and move on, right?

Well, people aren't that tidy about things, as Love Live fandom teaches us. As for this ship, the unexpectedness has a lot to do with it, I think. And I do think it's understandable that people would like there to be some sort of justification for the pairing to happen at all, beyond "existed in same series".

I presume that's a game in the pripara series then?

EDIT: No, on second thought the colors look like it's Aikatsu, but there was a PreCure game that also looks like that

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Well, I mean, I can understand "I do not like this pairing."

It's the bit where it seems to cross over into "...and you shouldn't either" that confounds me.

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^ Agreed

Oh damn

^ Looks like Aikatsu Stars to me.

Vankomycin
You see a pairing you don't like, you shrug and move on, right?

That is sane reaction to it. Sadly romance of a fictional characters is a serious business to many people.

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AAAWWW YEEEAAAHHHH!!!!~ MORE YOSHIMARU PLEASE~ \ ( > \\ < ) /

I confess I do have fond (for some value of "fond") memories of the Harry x Hermione fans who actually put together a petition to have J.K Rowling's publisher prevent her from writing Book 7, and instead let one of their favorite Harry x Hermione fanfic authors write Book 7, because (according to them) the fact that Harry x Ginny and Ron x Hermione was official and canon clearly indicated that J.K. Rowling didn't understand her own characters well enough to be allowed to write Book 7.

Quite possibly the most ludicrous, most reality-challenged thing I have ever seen in my nearly half-a-century on this planet.

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While I do really like Nia x Simon, I am okay with and all for this pairing.

oh shit, i love this (heart eyes)

It's a wonderful anime and I'd love a new season. Looks like the manga is getting an official english release next year too!

Nervi
That is sane reaction to it. Sadly romance of a fictional characters is a serious business to many people.

I mean isn't your offense by it equally as serious? I wouldnt have said anything if others hadn't already brought it up I just found the discussion interesting.

Faust I'm not saying people can't ship these two, or other pairings I disagree with. I wouldn't even say it's a bad ship because its not really the ship itself I dislike, it's just when people force ships outside of their sexuality that I dislike. Stupid I know, it applies more to yuri than anything else.

How to put in a tampon 101.

If she did insert anything in, it looks to be her glasses. Or did they vanish into thin air?

Search your feelings. You know it to be true.