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friendlyneighborhoodmadscientist replied to your post: So I was telling someone online about how in the...

This does bring up an interesting question, and one I’m not aware of the answer of: Where did the term “shipping” for favoring a particular romantic pairing in a piece of media come from? And why?

I believe it is a shortened and verbed derivative of "relationship".