Penny Arcade - Comic - Skiffers

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Penny Arcade - Comic - Skiffers

Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.

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poipoigirl

lol Shipping doesn't need logic. Just the passion of a wookie and a hut.

Skull2185

I dunno if it's my monitor, but it was hard to figure out who said what. I assumed Tycho would be into Chewie on Jabba fucking, but after squinting it out I see those bubbles have a little bit of orange tint.

Lucascraft

I don't understand the first speech bubble. What are shippers?

Arteen

Lucascraft wrote: »

I don't understand the first speech bubble. What are shippers?

Relationshippers. People who fantasize romantic relationships between fictional characters, often where that relationship isn't canon, or sane.

MichaelLC

Lucascraft wrote: »

I don't understand the first speech bubble. What are shippers?

Sick son's of...

It's short for 'relationship' but pretty much just means sex stories/plays/stop-motion between characters.

Like Kirk & Picard getting it on.

Bursar

UPS, FedEx, that sort of thing.

I'm kind of eyeing you suspiciously right now, but at the risk of falling for a joke, I realize that not everyone knows the lingo for the pit of degeneracy that is the Internet...

"Shipping" is when people take two (or more) characters from a work and make unsupported theories that those characters are in a relationship. Frequently this then appears in fan stories, art, etc. In the old days, this was called "slash fiction," because the pairings were usually written as "Kirk/Spock" to show which characters were in it. Now it's "shipping" because a relationship is much more involved and fandoms have really stepped up the amount of effort that goes into them.

ziddersroofurry

Talk about a crack ship. Gabe's is on meth.

...besides, everybody knows ChewKanata is the OTP.

Edit: Lol this is great. I Googled 'ChewKanata' and first result was this https://khallion.deviantart.com/art/My-Boyfriend-587235726 (SFW)
...they really do look adorable together. Headcanon accepted!

Inkarnit

I'm just here to say that I also had no idea what a shipper was and was trying to think of what I could have missed that made any of this stuff make sense. I have now learned about "shipping" though I had previously heard of "slash fiction" or "fan-fic." I just didn't know it had evolved.

Quid

Inkarnit wrote: »

I'm just here to say that I also had no idea what a shipper was and was trying to think of what I could have missed that made any of this stuff make sense. I have now learned about "shipping" though I had previously heard of "slash fiction" or "fan-fic." I just didn't know it had evolved.

There's not necessarily any additional fiction involved. Shipper can just refer to a person rooting for two characters to hook up.

donavannj

Inkarnit wrote: »

I'm just here to say that I also had no idea what a shipper was and was trying to think of what I could have missed that made any of this stuff make sense. I have now learned about "shipping" though I had previously heard of "slash fiction" or "fan-fic." I just didn't know it had evolved.

It hasn't really evolved, though, as it's basically been this way for at least as long as I've been using the internet (which brings us back to '03), the circles it was in were just less public, especially the ones where you had the out there ships like the one presented in today's comic. You're just one of today's "lucky" 10,000 for the term "shipping". It's also probably something that you've done with other shows and not known there was a name for it, as it also applies to canon relationships, though most people who consider themselves "shippers" are stanning/shipping a relationship that isn't yet canon.

Skull2185

I don't subscribe to the whole Chewie/Maz thing. Mostly out of logistics. Maz is tiny compared to Chewbacca, and from what I understand, a wookie penis has a truly remarkable circumference.

H3Knuckles

To give a sense how long the term shipping has been in use; one of the big debates for fanfic of the early seasons of the Pokemon TV series was whether or not one supported the "Rocketship" (the romantic pairing of Jesse and James from Team Rocket).

Technically, this is a canon ship (in one of the official manga spin-offs)

wallywest

Thanks internet!

ziddersroofurry

donavannj wrote: »

Inkarnit wrote: »

I'm just here to say that I also had no idea what a shipper was and was trying to think of what I could have missed that made any of this stuff make sense. I have now learned about "shipping" though I had previously heard of "slash fiction" or "fan-fic." I just didn't know it had evolved.

It hasn't really evolved, though, as it's basically been this way for at least as long as I've been using the internet (which brings us back to '03), the circles it was in were just less public, especially the ones where you had the out there ships like the one presented in today's comic. You're just one of today's "lucky" 10,000 for the term "shipping". It's also probably something that you've done with other shows and not known there was a name for it, as it also applies to canon relationships, though most people who consider themselves "shippers" are stanning/shipping a relationship that isn't yet canon.

Yeah. Shipping is just imagining two or more characters (or people) together. People have been doing that since people first became people. I'm sure back in the cave human days Oogla looked at one of Ugs cave drawings and thought, 'Atouk would be so much better with Lar'.

ziddersroofurry

Skull2185 wrote: »

I don't subscribe to the whole Chewie/Maz thing. Mostly out of logistics. Maz is tiny compared to Chewbacca, and from what I understand, a wookie penis has a truly remarkable circumference.

Er I'm pretty sure there are more than a few big guys with smaller companions out there who make it work. That and given it's not like we have anything official to go by you're basing your estimate on non-canon data, anyways.

Kagera

Um not to deviate too far from the comic but aren’t Jesse and James related?

Edit: they are not. Huh wonder where that idea came from in my head.

Hevach

Kagera wrote: »

Um not to deviate too far from the comic but aren’t Jesse and James related?

Edit: they are not. Huh wonder where that idea came from in my head.

If you cover their hair, they do have almost the exact same face.

That's true of a LOT of characters on the show, there's really only a few faces and it's the hair or hats that identify characters, but since they always appear together you start to notice them first.

MichaelLC

Kagera wrote: »

Um not to deviate too far from the comic but aren’t Jesse and James related?

Edit: they are not. Huh wonder where that idea came from in my head.

That's actually a common folklore, dating back to the late 1800s. Some believed they were the same man.

furlion

Skull2185 wrote: »

I don't subscribe to the whole Chewie/Maz thing. Mostly out of logistics. Maz is tiny compared to Chewbacca, and from what I understand, a wookie penis has a truly remarkable circumference.

The first time I read that comic, like a decade ago, I was in a computer library at college and I laughed so hard I cried. God damn it slew me.

Skull2185

I had the same reaction. I think I was at work on my lunch break, and people must've thought I was losing it. Had a case of the giggles for the rest of that day.