For a lot fans – and this corner of fandom tends to be pretty heavily female-dominated – being really into a book or film or television show is about collecting emotional capital, spending a lot of our time thinking about fictional characters, or fictional relationships, or, best of all, potential fictional relationships. That’s the act of shipping, and we’ve got it down to a science.
Star Wars, queer representation and the mainstreaming of slash (via twelve-in-twelve-2016)

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Source: newstatesman.com

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