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Other francihses the term "ship" applies to?

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Is there a franchise it doesn't apply to? I thought all TV shows/movies used it.
 
You mean the suffix -shipping, or the term "ship" as the blanket term for relationships?

Because the suffix is used in the Golden Sun fandom, and the YGO fandoms.
 
Well, a most people call them either "ships" or "pairings"

But the whole ____shipping thing is only in certain fandoms. Most of the time, the pairing will just be a combination of the character's names.

For example: Instead of Tamaki and Haruhi from Ouran High School Host Club being called something like 'Ouranshipping', it is simply refered to as 'TamaHaru' (btw, thats my OTP ^_^)
 
Well, I just meant to all franchises use the ___Shipping term. But from what I've been seeing it's something like JaneSmith x JoeSmith, or like what Mooites said.
 
There are many actual pairing denoters (numbers are rather popular in two fandoms, and one uses them occasionally), but the most common forms are the initials, name smoosh, or the name splice.

SS in the Cardcaptor/Tsubasa fandoms blatantly mean, to someone who's been in the fandom for two minutes, the pairing of Syaoran/Sakura (before it gets recently obvious in Tsubasa that SS now stands for two of the same couple-- oh, it's confusing; never mind).

"TamaHaru" is a smoosh, because it takes the first two parts to make a denoter.

Taito or Tibbs is a name splice, because it takes the first half of one commonly used name for a character, the second half of another, and creates a new word. In Digimon, Taito means Taichi/Yamato, and in NCSI, Tibbs means Tong/Gibbs.
 
I didn't know the NCIS fandom did that. Well, that's good, specifically I was looking for the fandoms of CSI and Ghost Whisperer. So, was that like a whole CBS thing, or does it just depend on the fandoms? I haven't seen much like that on the CBS forums.
 
Harry Potter uses that same name splicing too. Dramione, Snarry... Those are the only ones I know, though.
 
While I admit the YGO fandom will use ship names sometimes, I seem to see just the character names (SetoJou) or initials Y/YY more. Princess Tutu just uses the names. Bleach uses the smoosh, and that's pretty much all the info I can give.
 
out of the three fandoms I'm anywhere close to familiar with, this one is the only one that uses "ship"

As said earlier, Harry Potter uses name splicing or M x F (Harry x Ginny, Ron x Hermione for example)

Sonic the Hedgehog also uses name splicing (SonAmy etc.)
 
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