Nowadays, we ship many couples, whether from movies, series, books or even soap operas! In “The Other Side of Paradise”, 21h soap opera of Rede Globo, the crowd is hoping that Clara (Bianca Bin) and Patrick (Thiago Fragoso) end together. In such cases, create a word to define the couple, which in this case is "Clarick", a junction of the names of the characters.

This is not something new: during the release of the Twilight saga, there were people cheering for both Bella to be with vampire Edward and werewolf Jacob. This is what we still talk about books! In the literature, another famous example was Hermione's shipps with Ron Weasley and Harry Potter's with Gina, both in the Harry Potter saga.

In sitcoms, this is also common. Who hasn't hoped sometimes for Kate (Evangeline Lilly) to be with Jack (Matthew Ford), sometimes for James (Josh Holloway)? Even in the real world there are people who cheer for a famous couple never to split up, like Brumar fans (Bruna Marquezine and Neymar).

In "Lost, " the fandom was split between those who hoped Kate would be with Jack or James.

But where did this story of “shippar come from?”

Although the cheering for couples is quite old, it was not until the 1990s that the idea of ​​naming it came up. In 1996, the fourth season of "The X-Files, " fans who were hoping for a romance between Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) began calling themselves "shippers, " a derivation of "relationship.", in English).

In addition to the shippers, there was also a fan plot that didn't want any romance between the main characters to get in the way of the story. They called themselves "NoRomos", in reference to "no romance". As love won, it was the shippers who survived.

Remember that in 1996, when the term became popular among this fan community, the internet was still crawling commercially. So it took a while for the term “shippar” to come into our vocabulary once and for all - something very common in today's virtual world. It mainly belongs to fandoms of great cultural successes, but can be used by anyone who wants to join a couple. And, have you ever shipped anyone?

Mulder and Scully: the couple that gave rise to shippar fever