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Korean boy band member becomes first active K-pop star to come out as gay (www.nbcnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

"ship real life people" what does this mean "to ship people"?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It means thinking they should be together in a relationship (ship comes from the word relationship, I believe). This is a thing that people do a lot in fandoms for fiction stuff. Like shipping two characters together from comics or a TV show or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

And Lemmy itself does one example of shipping that is iconic:

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

It's not a ship if its real

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

We didn't do that, the writers of Deep Space 9 did. We just like that they did. A lot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Thanks for asking