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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] 35 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Giving more fuel for their fans to ship real life people like they're yaoi characters.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day 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 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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

Julian and Garak

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

It's not a ship if its real

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

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