English
Noun
ship war (plural ship wars)
- (fandom slang) An intense and sometimes hostile disagreement between shippers of rival ships in a fandom.
- Oh, no, not another ship war between members of Team Edward and Team Jacob.
- 2008, Melissa Anelli, Harry, A History, Pocket Books (2008), ISBN 9781416554950, page 236:
- They seemed fascinated by my and Meg's absorption in the Harry Potter culture, so we told them stories of the ship wars […]
- 2013, Mark Duffet, Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture, Bloomsbury Academic (2013), ISBN 9781623565855, page 248:
- 'Ship wars' are discussions, usually between female fans, about who the best partner would be for their favourite character or artist, a classic example being the debates over whether Yoko Ono was good for John Lennon.
- 2013, Emily Regan Wills, "Fannish discourse communities and the construction of gender in The X-Files", Transformative Works and Cultures, Volume 14:
- Habermas may not have imagined ship wars as a context for practical discourse, but fandom is in fact an excellent space in which to engage in the forms of contestation he describes.
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