Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141031002615/@comment-24891101-20141208035537

Starboy35tcoos wrote: The whole "Oh this ship sank or this ship is going full steam ahead" is honestly annoying to me.

But don't praise one ship and make it seem like all other ones are below it or terrible in comparion.

Majority of the time from what I see from it is usually two characters that barely interact or just have some dialouge together or are just in the same screen together for a certain amount of time.

This I don't understand. In order:

Why is it annoying? It's just an extension of the metaphor, which is entertaining for those people involved. Personal preference noted, but I'd ask the same favor.

This doesn't actually happen. Certainly not here. While we do assign vessel classes to ships, there's very much a reason for it. It's based on current probability, per the characters' interest and personality, likelihood in the limit as the series comes to conclusion, and overall fandom popularity. Therefore, Arkos and Bumblebee, for instance, are both carriers, since the first is very well supported, canonically, and the second is very popular in certain quarters. We don't insult other ships, we merely point to the likelihood and popularity, which are encoded in the class, as above. We recognize certain ships as major ones, but use a more interesting vocabulary to do so. It entertains us. It's not as if the community here as a whole detests certain ships.

Not really. Not here. Most ships that exist have some degree of canonical backing, or are sufficiently stereotypical that it's not beyond possibilty, and many of the others are too popular to ignore. As for the rest, we have fun naming them, based on character themes, motifs, and symbolism. It's fun word association.