Shipping - Fansplaining

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Special Episodes

Special Episode 36: The Devil Wears Prada 2

A Mirandy shipper’s ebullient journey through a sequel that is otherwise…perhaps not so great.

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Features

The RPF Question

Amid blurry boundaries between fic, celebrity fandom, and conspiracy theories, how real person fiction evolved from forbidden to mainstream and back again.

Special Episodes

Special Episode 19: Tropefest: Found Family

The enduring appeal of families of choice.

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Features

Shipping Survey: Methodology and Tools

Commas, smushed ship names, and one long-suffering data professional.

A massive ship loaded with shipping containers.

Features

Shippers on Shipping

What is shipping? Our survey’s 16,513 self-identified shippers...did not agree.

Episodes

Episode 64: The Year In Fandom 2017

Fandom mainstreaming, shipping and activism, and #MeToo: our annual year in review.

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Episodes

Episode 29: Shipping and Activism

Fan scholars Rukmini Pande and Lori Morimoto discuss the trouble with shipping-as-politics.

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Explainers

To Ship or Not To Ship

An explainer about the words “ship” and “slash.”