“Normalize shipping two characters because you like them both.” “They never interacted” They’re both hot, shut up.

As an aromantic, I've never gotten the craze about shipping... until I discovered how absolutely hilarious the Cyrus X Cynthia ship is

As a chronic daydreamer, _"I live in the land of What If, not in the land of What Is."_ needs to be on a shirt.

"me thinking about ships instead of going to bed" don't CALL ME OUT for reading fanfic as bedtime stories

My ships are either 1. Canon (or characters with a very well-established dynamic that could easily be adapted into a ship with little suspension of disbelief required) 2. Random crossover bs I fabricated out of nowhere

Shipping them because the pairing sparks joy

The rarepair pioneering issue is 1,000x more painful when your brain has dragged you so deep into rarepair hell one half of your newest obsession _doesn't even have a canon name._ Or when a character who's never had fic made with them before has a really ambiguous name status in canon, and _you_ have to think of something to enter into the AO3 database to be connected to them _forever._ It's too much pressure for this young fool's heart 😭

I wholeheartedly believe multishipping and polycules are the answer to every ship war. Can't decide between Roceit and Anxceit? Anaroceit, next. Cant decide between Sonadow or Sonamy? They're both good, moving on. It just feels so good because people will be arguing over which one is better, but you just know "They're equally good, what's the point of picking?"

as a multishipper i cannot comprehend how people have one ship per character. i love this meow meow, i want them to be with everyone.

One half of my ship could sneeze and the other say "Bless you" and I'd be like "They sooo want each other" 😂

I love multishipping so my basis for shipping is based off of if I like their hypothetical dynamic. I'm suprised more people don't multiship because it saves you from making a decision between one ship or another.

my mind is constantly at war between "we need more focus on platonic relationships, and the idea that platonic relationships can be just as meaningful as romantic ones" and also "if these two don't kiss Right Now i'm going to start biting people"

Is it really a coincidence that this video uses Tomodachi Life music in the background when the game has created such crackships in my household as Waluigi and Queen Elizabeth II, or Michael Rosen and Isabelle Animal Crossing?

0:50 I love shipping. It’s so fun. But I’m also ace and aro. It took me longer to realize that I was aro because I loved shipping so much. Someone had pointed out how me being not interested in x reader fics, but shipping generally sounded like I was aro. I thought about it, but I didn’t fully accept it just then. It took me a couple more years to realize. Now I’m good. Shipping is still part of my way of interacting with media, but I realize that it’s not something I want in real life.

As an aroace, shipping is kinda my life because I don't really ship myself with someone else. So I just shove characters together and make sure they'll never have sex. Ever.

As someone who does s/i (oc) x canon, I confirm that we indeed feel very powerful in our little tumblr corner over there

being a multi-shipper is amazing, I can ship ANYONE WITH EVERYONE!

It's so funny to me when people think you have to know a lot about a ship because I LOVE interacting with fandoms I'm not in (and therefore don't know anything about) and picking random ships that I see and following them. It's literally so fun. Everyone needs to try interacting with random fandom.

0:05 for me it’s whenever they are on screen I go “JUST KISS ALREADY!!!!”

Honestly shipping and fan culture were so influential for me as a young queer person who grew up seeing fragments of myself in my favorite shows but never feeling wholly reflected. When I discovered fanfiction and AUs and the internet it was like something I'd been missing all my life finally clicked into place. It felt so validating to discover an entire community of people who had the same interpretation of a text as I did. Also, as cringe as it sounds, shipping actually helped me to form healthy relationships in my own life as an adult. The pretend queer relationships in media I loved were a better model for connecting with other people than the toxic/codependent dynamics I saw in typical hetero romances (fictional and IRL).

“You don’t know me.” “I do know you.” Made me ship Ty Lee and Zuko despite there not being too many interactions to go off of. I just really like Energetic, Good! paired with Dark, Not Good! because it’s just so interesting and cool; pretty much all of my favorite ships include it. Edit: as someone who writes for the _Murder Drones_ fandom, I pretty much just ship the trio together but also have variations of those ships in different fics. Can’t get into a shipping war if I’m a triple agent.

Personally I perfer to project onto a canon character and then ship them with the other character that i like but more power to the self shippers! You guys have way more swag than I could ever have.

I’ve noticed that I really like ships where everyone (not just the fandom) just sorta agrees that they’re together even though they aren’t in canon. Not sure why, but hey.

As someone who's aroace, the aspec post near the 50-second mark is *far* too relatable. Also, lately I've come to appreciate the dynamic, 'Takes one for the team x Would break the laws of physics for their loved ones'. The best part? It stemmed from a crackship.

so one of my main fandoms is super smash bros… yeah, I have A LOT of crossover ships that make no sense at all because I think the characters would work together

Praising selfships? What a miracle! (yea, I'm a selfshipper lol)

In one of my oldest fandoms, I used to (and frankly still do) ship a rarepair. I love them both independently and they are friends in canon, who are you to stop me?

“i live in the land of what if, not the land of what is” is such a raw line for SHIPPING DISCOURSE

Shipping the canon ships: Nope Giving all the protagonists gay ships: Hell yes

As a fellow aspec i relate to that issue wholeheartedly, it's a cursed cycle

Crossover ships are honestly some of my favorite ships imaginable, especially if the character you're shipping's canon options aren't the best people to ship them with. The amount of characters I have shipped with just this one cannot be estimated.

Sometimes, I ship because of the bittersweetness a ship has. Like, my current otp has so much chemistry, but the ending for them is like a Greek tragedy. The care for one another was always there, but the feelings weren't realized until too late. It's like that for a lot of my favorite ships. I don't know why I'm like this lmao😂

"Tumblr gets shippy" Roll 1d600 for a Panik check.

0:05 it's when you have a full gallery images of your ship, it could be an genuine moment between them or it could be just them standing next to each other or just staring at each other, not in a romantic way, just, staring at each other. Another is listening to songs and always thinking about them, even with songs that are probably not fitting (but when there are songs that DO fit, the feeling is better)

0:50 Omg someone said it! That’s exactly what I’ve been dealing with, like I wanna make some representation for myself but it’s so hard not to ship literally every character ever. 3:56 I accidentally stumbled into a self insert x canon ship once. I was just self inserting along with the story imagining if someone that was basically me was there, and I was like “well he’d definitely wanna be friends with this one character, they share a lot of interests.” Then I imagined them closer and being basically a qpr. Then suddenly they were kissing and I was powerless to stop it. Like I had no crush or anything on the character but my self insert decided of his own volition that he needed to put his lips on that man even though I’ve never kissed someone irl and have no plans on changing that fact. -There’s a decently high chance that happened since the character is an npc in a dnd series and I am down bad for the dm playing him but ignore that.-

3:00 i used to be exactly like this, and finding out that you were allowed to like different pairings with the same character was mind blowing

Draculaura x Clawd was that 11-14 y/o ship I fell in love with. They’re so healthy and sweet and committed to one another and UGGHH THEY ARE MY EVERYTHING STILL

I laugh MANICALLY knowing that my technical first introduction to oc x Canon ships, let alone shipping in general was this one time when i was 9 and playing club penguin, the veggie villain mission came out and i managed to complete it and i saw dot pop out of the closet. Something in my Brain clicked. Something that made me go "ok so my penguin just loves her now!" I still draw them occasionally.

11:01 This is legit everything… and somehow always the ships I make… not in a way that I have them ending up together romantically but instead just… they click. They love each other absolutely and totally and it’s not as a couple.

7:00 honestly this is basically what i mean when i say "i ship them". i mean "i like the dynamic between these 2 characters". arguing whether that dynamic is romantic or platonic or both or something else is really secondary. i just like the interactions between these chars and wanna see more of them

I was legit giggling, cackling, and kicking my feet throughout this whole video omg 💀

I have, on multiple occasions, ended up rolling my eyes at the main couple whose beautiful romance we’re supposed to swoon over, then proceeded to swoon over the side couple whose relationship is meant to be comic relief. Okay, you two blandly pretty teenagers/twentysomethings are in a ✨Dramatic✨Forbidden✨Relationship!✨ Whatever. I don’t care. I’m more interested in these two middle-aged weirdos bonding over some bizarre interest that the other characters jokingly make fun of them for.

I adore writing random ships seriously. It's my idea of a good time to do mental gymnastics to make work out.

I get this obsessed and wild over shipping my own characters together. I love writing scenes where they're doing things together, the cuter the interactions, the better.

7:03 justifies a lot of my favorite ships- i don’t care if they kissed, as long as they at least care about eachother they can be justified as a qpr

4:15 I didn't think I was like this until I started consuming media with my friends and then learned I am very much exactly like this.

My favorite thing about shipping is watching fandoms tear themselves apart over nonsensical ships that everyone knows deep down will never become canon anyway. And even if they do, they'll probably wait until the last second to make it official.

I love ships that work well thematically, canon or not. Like say you have a story about societal norms; character A is trying to fit in because they are afraid people will shame them for who they actually are and character B is trying to stand out because they are afraid of being a failure. Them coming together states a new point in the narrative and makes everything so much more interesting. I love ships that just... make sense. Like they have to happen even though there are story consequences.

The aspec shipper just came for my life holy shit I don't even really do a lot of canon/canon shipping like if you don't tell me two characters are in love explicitly I probably won't see it (and even if you do tell me they're in love I'll still probably not really see it lol) So shipping must not be for me then right? Wrong! I get attached to a character and then decide that they still need someone to smooch (or "smooch") and I make a whole ass new character that I can custom-build to be someone I could see smooching that character instead of trying to pick someone from the lsit of existing characters to try to make make sense in my mind And I adore it don't get me wrong, but I'm just here sometimes like "why are you even like this hello"

I just ship random characters I think would work together. Like, for example, Medli from Zelda and Bertro from Housamo.

Personly, I feel a bit alienated at times since I'm more of a friendshipper. (Looking at you, Good Omens fandom. I'm happy for you shippers, though.)

when your so early the only other comment is a pornbot

I remember when I was younger I would ship the most randomest ships in the fandom because other people shipped those characters. Did it make sense. No. Was it fun. Yes. Then a few years later I wasn't much of a fan of shipping, I'd be ok with canon ships, but anything uncannon I'd just be like: What? Why? They're cannonically JUST friends why do people ship them? Now I am a casual shipper and ship whatever I want whether canon or uncanon, though I'm quite picky with my ships. With some I'm like, Ok, sure, these two are cute together I guess. BUT with a rair few times I have seen ships that I just love, and love thinking about. This though has only happened like two times, I think. Thank you to whoever bothered to listen to this random girl on the internet ramble about her taste in shipping.

8:20 i needed to hear this but this will not stop me from studying every ounce of them because there is VERY LITTLE about them in the actual canon

It was a surprise to learn that people can be possessive or weird about ship they like, or hostile about ships they dont. To me, all ships are inevitably like speculative thought exercises on how a potential relationship might go between two characters. "What is a story that gets these two potentially unrelated characters to a happy ending together?" is a very neat question to me, even if i never write those kinds of relationship stories. Its fun, interesting, and a good prompt to write about, if youre the type to. Shipping is a great thing for fanfic people.

Something that always pisses me off is when people automatically assume that shipping is inherently sexual (this has basically nothing to do with the video but I just felt the need to say it ;-;)

I'm fine with shipping someone with multiple characters, but not every character. There are some I just plain despise.

4:14, No this is so real it hurts. WHY can I not enjoy pieces of media like a normal person ⁉️⁉️😭 Like there is no just _"liking"_ anything for me. I need to be a walking encyclopedia for said piece of media. I will have to have to write at _least_ one fic. I am *morally obligated* to draw them as much as I can, regardless of where I am. If I am NOT the piece of media/the character/ship that I like by the end of it, then I've failed everything. 😇

You know what's fun? Go back a rewatch a show or movie you haven't seen in decades and see what ships you get out of it when you come back to it. Rewatched something I hadn't seen in 20 years, didn't even care about shipping back in those days and found myself a great handful of ships to enjoy on my own without annoying ship wars. Yes, I have to make my own content, but sometimes it's just nice to have the sandbox to yourself for a change

ive never been a huge fan oc x canon fics etc. but... it changes when youre the one shipping your oc with a canonical character

TFW your favorite pair is of characters who both died in the beginning of the series and only got their time to shine decades later with prequels.

I, an adult, am very normal about New Style Boutique for 3DS, so I definitely did not notice the shopping mall theme playing in the background.

1:05 The relationship between two of my characters is in a quantum superposition of siblings, best friends, and romantic partners.

2:09 I DIDNT EXPECT TO SEE THEM I NEVER SEE INFNITY TRAIN ANYWHERE I LOVE THEM

When someone asks me what my favorite ship is I respond with "the flying dutchman" I'm a big sucker for pirate dad jokes

Most of my ships spawn from seeing what other people ship and throwing them at my brain wall to see if I like them too. Except Polyninja. I came up with that one all by myself.

I just Want my big stoic villain To trust his nemesis enough to bottom

My introduction to shipping as a kid was flutterdash and Rajijack i didn't know anyone else shipped the ships i just really liked they characters together and i left the mlp fandom before i started actually joining fanbases

Me: Shipping two characters together: 😃 Realizing that I...don't really ship them as much as I used to: 😟 Realizing that I don't ship them partially because I have a crush on one of them: 😭

I have a ship where I was one of few who shipped it in it's first season where it was super unpopular (The characters had small but very good moments) but in the second series (what came out late November of 2023 so not too long ago) the two characters Spent most their time together and had a lot of moments together because of that the ship skyrocketed and i was excited but i found out that weirdly enough some of the people who also shipped it from season 1 got oddly defensive over the ship. I'm personally just glad the ship is even this close to being canon (It's currently in the top ten of ships in the fandom on ao3 and in it's subsection it's currently fighting for the top spot with another ship)

Shipping a crossover pair is so painful because no one else ships it, you have to create all the content for it, but also, they should kiss and I love them

My brain is so full of PearlxMarina (Pearlina) that I squeal every time they interact in a way that cannot be described as heterosexual. These two cephalopods love each other, it’s so obvious (especially in Side Order)

As an aroace I can confirm we are ship gods sometimes. I am unable to feel romance irl but I still ship these characters like crazy

Have you ever shipped two characters as a joke because it makes no sense but then fell in love with it, *please help*

I personally like ships that have a certain amount of canon behind them. Whether they're a canon relationship or not doesn't matter, but I like ships whose canon banter can very easily be interpreted as flirting. Like Komahina, for example.

I (a fanfic author) sometimes have the "wheel of fanfic" where I for example put a bunch of names on a picker wheel and whatever it lands on will be the ship. It sometimes helps to spark new ideas and challenges. Harry Potter/Zuko? Sokka/Aang, can I even do that? Gotta try right? The wheel said so and now my fanfic mind is racing!

There's this ship in my fandom that's SUPER popular, like ,, NOBODY will shut up about it, and i absolutely LOATHE that ship because I ship one of the characters in that ship with another character and because of the more popular ship there's like no content of my ship and it makes me so angry

My favorite jealousy troupe is 'if I can't have you,no one can'

This whole video brought me so much joy I- idk, i've always been a fan of shipping, whenever I wanna start watching a show/playing a game/etc my main reason is to find characters to ship or to see why a popular ship is popular (and whether I agree or don't with the fandom for shipping them). Istg I don't wanna be seen as a "UwU yaoi 🌚" type of person (the fact that there's only 1 or 2 male + female ships that I like and the rest is wlw/mlm doesn't help at all btw), for me shipping is like self-therapy (?) like I project my urge to be loved or to love somebody onto fictional characters, whenever I'm writing a fanfic I notice that some parts look like my dream relationships, and how the characters feel is based on how I felt during my 1st time *actually* being in love X﹏X And can we pls talk about the post on 1:43 ? Like it's so ON POINT, all of that is SO TRUE, and esp the "and you get the same butterflies you get when you think about your crush". Sometimes I pull out my notebook and keep drawing my comic about my OTP, and whenever I'm working on it I just re-read the certain parts and feel... so good?? I feel these butterflies too 😭 I can draw them holding hands and start smiling and feeling as if my crush just grabbed my hand... I love the shipping community. I loved this video. Thank you, tonka joey

When I’m daydreaming in class, what, no, I’m not daydreaming about any crush I have on someone, nah nah, I dream of my ships smooching in the most tender way and it makes me go wild

So many of these are so real but especially the one about being an aroace shipper (I NEED REP BUT I LOVE MY SHIPS), & the one about what you shipped when you were 11-14 staying with you forever. Two of my favourite ships of all time are Rigby & Eileen from Regular Show, & Vinyl & Octavia from MLP (the latter being my current fixation). I'm 19 now but I've shipped those since I was 7 & 9 respectively, was obsessed at the start of high school, & I'm 19 now, still obsessed 😭

Edred and Melinda from unicorn warriors eternal. Holy shit. Hot witch lady and hot elf prince both in love with each other? Hell yeah.

there are a couple characters that I would definitely ship together, if it weren’t for the fandom constantly yaoifying one of the members. it’s like they take away his agency because he’s an effeminate guy (or as close to effeminate as you can get in this show). The other character is also butchered, but in the other direction. he’s a very serious and stoic person, but that doesn’t make him a manly caricature like a lot of the fandom sees him as. it completely flattens both their characters

K. Long rant ahead. I casually engaged in shipping, but never felt passionate about a couple being canon until I met Leorio x Kurapika from Hunter x Hunter. (Btw I know they are 17 and 19, Leorio just looks like an old man). I KNOW they will never be canon. However, unlike other couples I’ve casually shipped, I feel like their canon relationship would actually be improved if they had romantic feelings for each other. (I think giving Kurapika a love interest would make it even more difficult for him to choose between being consumed by vengence and living peacefully and accepting what he cannot control. Also I want to see Leorio suffer even more under the “I can fix him” mentality). Also they got that wattpad-ass dynamic: ordinary college student x conviniently young and hot mafia prince. Thanks for listening yall.

me in 2020: nooo you can’t ship characters that have never interacted!!! that’s weird!!! you have to stick to the canon!!! me now: OMG GUYS JANIS SAID GRETCHEN’S NAME TWICE IN MEAN GIRLS?? THEY’RE LITERALLY GFS

i love shipping because it makes people mad :)

4:09 THAT CHARACTER IN THEIR PFP IS FROM AN OBJECT SHOW FKSVIXBDURBSKVSBD IM SORRY BUT SEEING OBJECT SHOW RELATED STUFF OUTSIDE OF OBJECT SHOW SPACES MAKES ME GO INSANE BC THE OSC IS SO NICHE AND IM IN LOVE WITH OBJECT SHOWS

8:35 i love how like half of TADC fandom is on the third level because of how cute Pomni And Ragatha are together

10:20 This post made me worry about my current situation. I have a crush on one of my best friends, but I don’t want to have a crush on him nor do I want to be in a relationship with him. He knows how I feel about him, but he doesn’t know how he feels about me, and regardless, he doesn’t want to be in a relationship either. We moved on like nothing had happened, and I figured that was the best course of action since I’d _prefer_ being just friends, and I also figured that, if I changed my mind in the future, we could discuss it then. However, this post has got me wondering, what if I regret this decision? 11:01 Nah. This is better. I was right the first time around. When I was younger, I used to think that the goal of having a crush was to enter a romantic relationship, but now, I’ve realized that those feelings don’t need to be acted upon. I’d rather regret a lack of romance later than ruin a friendship now.

the thing at 3:39 is literally Just Stab Me Now. I have been obsessed with it ever since I finished reading it. By Jill Bearup btw if anybody wants to read it.

I know I ship them because I never shut up about the sheer amount of ship bait my game keeps feeding me. They’ve all but declared their love to each other multiple times. And let’s not talk about the non-stop “partner” 😂😂😂

0:42 Zukka my beloved ❤❤ (I haven't watched Avatar in like eight years)

4:36 me shipping Kanara and lilac before it was canon Kanilac..? Lilara? ..daisychain. DAISYCHAIN. WAITWAITWAIT FLOWER?? FLOWERTWEET?? FLOWERCHIRP!!

I recently got sick and one of my first thoughts was a sickfic I read, I should be put down

"How do I pick between X & Y ships" Polyamory Also 0:39 is so true omg

here in 10! this channel is amazing!! though ive just started writing, these videos are great inspiration

These freaking ficwriter feels on my Every ship ever, but then I havent written anything in a very long time, but aaaaaaaa.

I love how it just sounds like a bunch of people talking about their boats

I specifically love 12:05 because that’s exactly what tomodachi life is like. It is the singular best game for making crack ships. Like yeah these characters are very much not compatible… but what if they kissed? Tomodachi life bravely goes into crack ship territory, and I respect it

Honestly for the longest time I only shipped stuff that was already canon and self shipped, probably because of my autism making it hard to see any subtext that wasn't directly fed to me. But now I'm all in on rare pairs lol, and still self shipping...