ship and let ship

proverb

A pro-shipper slogan encouraging fans to focus on their preferred ships, avoiding ship wars and discourse over which ships are acceptable.

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Meanings

proverb
  1. slanglifestyleA pro-shipper slogan encouraging fans to focus on their preferred ships, avoiding ship wars and discourse over which ships are acceptable.

    The second way the fandom anti is seen to transgress fandom mores is to ignore the fandom etiquette of "Ship and Let Ship" and attempt to impose their definition of appropriateness on popular character pairings, or ships, in various media texts.

    2024 January 1, Rukmini Pande, “"Get out of here you anti": Historizing the Operation of Structural Racism in Media Fandom”, in Feminist Media Histories, volume 10, number 1, Oakland, C.A.: University of California Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 114–115

Origin

Alteration of live and let live.

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APA

ship and let ship. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ship%20and%20let%20ship

MLA

“ship and let ship.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ship%20and%20let%20ship. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ship and let ship,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ship%20and%20let%20ship.

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