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ship and let ship

ship and let ship proverb: a pro-shipper slogan encouraging fans to focus on their preferred ships, avoiding ship wars and discourse over which ships are acceptable.

Proverb

ship and let ship

  1. (slang) A pro-shipper slogan encouraging fans to focus on their preferred ships, avoiding ship wars and discourse over which ships are acceptable.
    • The second way the fandom anti is seen to transgress fandom mores is to ignore the fandom etiquette of "Ship and Let Ship" and attempt to impose their definition of appropriateness on popular character pairings, or ships, in various media texts.2024 January 1, Rukmini Pande, “"Get out of here you anti": Historizing the Operation of Structural Racism in Media Fandom”, in Feminist Media Histories, volume 10, number 1, Oakland, C.A....

Origin of ship and let ship

Alteration of live and let live.

Questions about ship and let ship

What does ship and let ship mean?
Ship and let ship means a pro-shipper slogan encouraging fans to focus on their preferred ships, avoiding ship wars and discourse over which ships are acceptable.
What part of speech is ship and let ship?
Ship and let ship is a proverb.

Words near ship and let ship in the dictionary

  1. Shiori
  2. shioyaki
  3. ship
  4. ship a sea
  5. ship ahoy
  6. ship and let ship
  7. ship biscuit
  8. ship biscuits
  9. ship bread
  10. ship breads
  11. ship broker

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