multishipper

English

Etymology

From multi- +‎ shipper or multiship +‎ -er.

Noun

multishipper (plural multishippers)

1. (fandom slang) A person who ships multiple pairings within the same fandom, especially ones featuring the same character.
   • 2014, Angela Fazekas, "Queer And Unusual Space: White Supremacy In Slash Fanfiction", thesis submitted to Queen's University, page 120:

     He describes himself as a multishipper and proudly reblogged a post calling him the Captain of the Ichabbie ship.

   • 2018 March, Kristen J. Warner, “JunexNick: The Quietest Ship in the Handmaid Fandom”, in Communication Culture & Critique, volume 11, number 1, pages 199–200:

     In between confessionals, the JunexNick fandom operates as most multishipper (fans who ship a variety of couples all at once) fan pages do on Tumblr; […]

   • 2019, Lauren Rouse, "The fan fiction reading guide: the use of multimedia and comments as close reading tools", thesis submitted to DePaul University, page 48:

     Ruby advises any new fans to find the multishipper spaces within the fandom. “There you can ship whoever you want. You don’t have to be in shipper wars or anything like that.”

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:multishipper.

Related terms

• multiship