It’s in Swedish and I’m much too lazy to translate. But I figured the older generation might benefit from knowing these terms like shipping, AO3, slash, and whatnot.
He does not like the concept of shipping at all. But he thought it was educational and he liked the pictures I used. It was Star Trek themed since ST essentially coined the slash term, and we both watch it so I made that the main theme.
Well. That was fun. I love explaining nonsensical shit to older peeps.
I think I might need a PowerPoint to understand this post.
Zagorath explained the terms way better than I could.
It’s relevant to note that, while shipping (focused on romantic pairing) fanfic (derivative fiction written by fans) is really popular, you see fanfics about almost everything, depending on the media. For example some give redemption to a tragic villain, showing them by a different view; some seek to fill some plot hole left by the original author of the work; some explore the afterstory; and some are simply weird.
Me neither. I’m not very up to date on the brain rot lingo.
This stuff was ancient back in the 2000s. Or timeless, if you prefer. Except AO3, that’s relatively new. AO3 is just a website where the fans and their work congregate, though.
‘Shipping’ is when a group of fans of a piece of media decides they like the idea of two (or more) characters romantically involved, and have discussions, create fanart, etc, about it.
‘Slash’ is same-sex shipping. Usually male/male.
AO3 was gaining ground before 2016, so not sure it can be called new anymore lol.
I’ll do a lazy translate and post it in the comments later maybe