Shipper

Not UPS nor even an import-export company. Comes from "relationships" and refers to other-media fen who admit to a vicarious positive emotional involvement in seeing the ongoing relationships develop between favorite characters – Crichton/Sun, Scully/Mulder, Buffy/Spike, e.g.

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Fanspeak

This is a fanspeak page. Please extend it by adding information about when and by whom it was coined, whether it’s still in use, etc.