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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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

Julian and Garak

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

It's not a ship if its real

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We didn't do that, the writers of Deep Space 9 did. We just like that they did. A lot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks for asking