Shipping

Shipping is the favored pastime of every LPS fan that is over the age of five. It is a massive waste of time because shippers are always wrong and they disregard Hasbro's canon.

How To Be A Successful Internet Shipper (WARNING: SATIRICAL)

Step One: Find A Couple

When you are shipping, you're obviously perpetrating a pairing. To find a couple you can plaster with millions of video editor effects, you can use one of three strategies: rely on your feelings (which doesn't make anything canon), find an image of two characters hugging or something, erase the context, and just call it "ship confirmed!" (which is NOT confirmed, because you're not Hasbro), or seize a pairing that seems to be canon, willfully ignorant of Hasbro's plans to scrap it in a while.

Step Two: Find Images Of This Couple

I already mentioned this a little in step one, but if you've got a pairing, you need some images for it. You can either capture some pictures from random episodes of the show, or, if there are no show images because you either need more shocking ones or you're pairing a show character with an OC, fan art. Remember, good shippers make the fan art as dumb as possible.

Step Three: Cover Your Images With Effects, Then Add A Song That Sounds Like It Came From The Hallmark Channel's Movies

Launch any powerful video editing software and open your files. First, skim through the entire image effect library and choose from the most irritating ones. Popular shippers must cause seizures! When your images are tinted with obnoxious shades of pink, red, and purple and covered with grating hearts flying across the screen, you need a saccharine love song to go with them. The easiest way to do that is to watch any given Hallmark movie, listen for romantic music, and then slap it on your work.

'''Step Four: Post Your Video On The Internet, Then Whine, "Hasbro, PLEEEEEEEASE MAKE MY PAIRING CANON!" '''

There's really nothing to it! If you sound really, really, REALLY desperate for Hasbro to step in and say "Okay, this ship is confirmed canon", then a bunch of other rampaging teens will come along and fill the comments section with their whimpering and carrying on.

Step Five (Optional): Make A Fanfic To Support Your Pairing

Many respected shippers create fanfics, or little stories, to support their ship. When making a fanfic, be sure to have it as mushy as possible. Make it humorous in the beginning, but plummet right down to a sinister ending. The LPS fandom will go into a feeding frenzy over your work!