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He comes from the word “relationship” (relationship, in English) and means to hope for which characters in fiction form a relationship. The practice became popular in the 1990s. in 1970s with the series star trek: fans rooted for Kirk and Spock and nicknamed them in “K/S”.
But it was with The X-Files that O verb“ship” (“to ship”) itself emerged in the US, when viewers rooted for Fox Mulder and Dana Scully (Photos) stay together.
In Brazil, the term boomed during the 2000s, thanks to Twitter users.
With O passing of time, ratings in “ship” were created: there are O “slash ship” (a male gay couple, case in “K/S”), O “femslash” (a female couple), O “canon ship” (O obvious couple of the series) and O “cult ship” (a couple that never formed). It is common that, whenship” two characters, fans create a combination of names: Elena and Damon, in The Vampire Diariesfor example, became Delena.
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