cradle ship: A ship between an a child character and an adult character It’s a term for a type of age gap ship so you can more easily filter out or search for those types of ships
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Pet ship could work, yeah. 🤔 I don’t think it matters what it is, so long as people use it. –🐸☠
Hybrid ship and crossbreed/xbreed ship both sound too much like they’re referring to potential offspring of the couple, which I personally find squicky and others might too. Dog ship or feral ship? I kinda like companion ship though. I feel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hmm, I have no idea. There certainly might be a use for a term for “I don’t consider their ages when shipping them, and it doesn’t come up in the fic” if only for people who don’t like that to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
That’s a great one and we’ll add it asap!
Please! We would love it if people linked it and spread it around!
Shipping Glossary het ship: A ship between a male character and a female character. OTP: One true pairing. Refers to the shippers prefered ship for the characters involved. self ship: A ship between a canon character and the shipper themselves,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m working on a shipping glossary carrd.
Shipping terms for searching and blacklisting So far we have toy ship: A ship between two child characters teen ship: A ship between two teen characters tag ship: A a ship between a teen character and a child character cradle[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I propose scale ship for a ship that you want to signify has a significant power imbalance in some way, but you wouldn’t consider it dubcon/pick ship. Scale of course talking about the balance of the scales being tipped. How[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yes! we’ve been trying to think of a way to separate this too. maybe cradle ship for adult x child and xgen ship (cross generation) ship for adult x teen? I’d say just gen ship but gen already means something[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For two underage characters there’s toy ship if they’re both below their teens. I suggest teen ship, direct as it is, for when both characters are in their teens. For a mixed teen/child romance perhaps tag ship (referring to how[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hmmm, #shipcest is in pretty heavy use, so we might not want to mess with it! That said, if we want to fit the pattern we could always go with kin ship, or the slightly less elegant blood ship. (I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Thank you very much! It’s a very understandable squick to have, honestly. Hopefully if we can get a term for it in popular use it’ll make it easier for you to avoid.
the first thing that leaps into my mind is “companion ship” (like dogs are considered a person’s companion).
scientistservant: blackheart-biohazards: So we’ve been doing a little thinking about what terms we could use like Toy Ship to describe and tag for different types of ship to aid in searching or blacklisting them. We came up with a couple[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So we’ve been doing a little thinking about what terms we could use like Toy Ship to describe and tag for different types of ship to aid in searching or blacklisting them. We came up with a couple of ideas.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Toy Ship: A Toy Ship is a ship between two or more children (no teenagers or adults.) Toy ships are considered cute by some people, but are a squick to others. Children’s media fandoms probably have the most toy ships,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…