Does anyone else like watching the progression of ship names and conventions and how they change depending on the fandom? Like, for instance, in anime, you often use the first one or two syllables of the characters name and put them together so: kiribaku, sasusaku, etc.
But then an OLD anime, specifically yaoi fandom, convention was to use the order to indicate the “seme” (top) and “uke” (bottom. my GOD the fact that I can remember this smh), so sasunaru or narusasu.
And then in western fandom, you used to have a slash, so luke/leia, kirk/spock, which of course, gave rise to the slashfandom name. Because people would say “I like x slash y, you know,as a relationship”.Then, for a long time you’d often have a portmanteau of two characters names, depending on if there was a similarity between them, typically at the vowel: spirk, klance, destiel, sterek. But NOW it’s gravitating more towards mashing the whole name or a nickname together: deancas, sambucky.
But then, you can also get really fandom-specific naming conventions, like Invader Zim, with ZaDR or ZaDF where the ship name was an acronym for the characters involved, and the relationship style, romance or friendship in this case.
And of course, it’s all very fluid, so you’ll see all of these naming conventions (and more!) mixing and matching through different fandoms and times.
also, if you were a Yu-Gi-Oh stan…you remember that there were literally 3000 ships and they all ended in -shipping (puzzleshipping, thiefshipping, etc) and all of the names had a significant connection to the characters involved. it was truly an art form back then.
day 24 and 25: I unfortunately never got into the cards so I don’t own any.
Buuuut I mainly got into the ships, and I have alot of ships.
So I’ve watched the dub of DM and I was a peachshipper and revolutionshipper growing up. They stuck with me the most as a child. Seeing the deleted scenes of Téa trying to figure out her feelings for Yugi and Yami really infuriated me. I still do not understand why 4KIDS was deathly afraid of building characterization for these characters. When I revisited this series through YGOTAS, thiefshipping is intriguing. Personally I see Yami and Yugi more as brothers rather than a pairing, but I felt a similar with Prideshipping but now it grew on me.I will admit that some of the puzzleshipping art is really cute. Encourageshipping was a ship I never knew I was apart of until I found the name for it about a year or so ago lmao.
I haven’t watched GX but Spirit/soulshipping looks really cute, and I’m a sucker for Fiancéshipping ngl.
I’m currently binging 5ds and I am an absolute SAP for Faithshipping. The tension in season one from these two was the reason I fell in love with these two. The sheer fact that he not only helped her, he told her that he needed her. (Martha did embarrass him in front of Aki’s father because even she knew that he fell hard for her). That’s what really sold it for me. Aki’s arc of getting her D-wheel license, y’know.. the roller skating scene. I justed want more. I’m dissapointed how she was casted aside after the dark signers arc. It felt like unresolved tension between these two. Jack and Carly was also a pairing I fell in love with, he practically confesses to her at the end of their duel! I really hate how they treated Carly’s character development at the end of the dark signers arc.
Zexal, there wasn’t a lot that I remember but I really did like Skyshipping! I know it feels clichéd and forced at times, but the last episode she did confess and well he didn’t give any indication of rejection. Keyshipping feels alot like puzzleshipping, but keyshippers do make good arguments with the screencaps and meanings portrayed in the show.
I haven’t watched alot of ARC-V but I’m a sucker for fruitshipping, and their counterparts being shipped together. Rin and Yugo? Absolute cuties. Yuto and ruri? Blushy dorks, I love them. Serena and Yuri? Power-hungry couple that (fights on the same side) together stays together.
I haven’t watched VRAINS or Sevens, so I can’t say!
