Shipping.

It turns out that I have less time then anticipated this week, and so I have decided that today I will talk about something that most teenage girls nowadays gossip and rant about.  Shipping. 

If you are not familiar with the term 'ship' then let me briefly enlighten you.  Ships are people or characters that you would like to see in a relationship (no matter how improbable they may be).  Ship names are the name of the relationship, and they are usually the names of the shipped combined. An OTP (One True Pairing) is your ultimate ship.  It is the core of your teenage existence, and the one ship that you wish could be true more than anything.

Shipping is a common occurrence on social media sites like tumblr.  Celebrities and characters from TV shows are shipped with one another and written into fanfiction (a topic for another day).

Although ships can be very funny and cute at times, they can also be very annoying at others.  They can be especially infuriating if you are on the receiving end.  The shipped may feel pressure to be in a relationship or it may cause awkwardness in an existing friendship.  Some people don't seem to get that fact, and I would just like to say that it may seem silly or fun, but you may want to think of how it will make the shipped feel.  I do enjoy a good ship (and I still ship quite a few people), but I never really thought about how it may make them feel until the feeling was brought upon me.  So next time you have the sudden urge to gush over your OTP... maybe just do it in your head. :)


~Elliana