we really need to teach people these definitions because I've seen way too many people say "comship dni!" and then proceed to ship comships
but yeah just a reminder
comship = complicated ship. definition-wise, a lot of popular ships are comships! I don't know all of the kinds of ships that fall into here, but some examples include mortal x immortal, living x ghost, robot x human, mirrorshipping, etc. basically any complex dynamic.
lightshipper = a subterm of comship. the reason this term exists is because darkships fall into the category of comship. however, not all comships are darkships of course. lightshippers are comshippers that do not darkship, simple as that! some people say this is just normal shipping, but that's not excactly the case.
proshipper = a proshipper is against harassing (or generally hating on, I think?) anyone for what they ship. darkshipper? comshipper? neither? they think you shouldn't be hated for it. unfortunately, people are trying to pose this as a synonym for darkshipper, as well as harassing others despite having this label.
darkshipper = dark ship. I don't know how to explain this in one chunk, but it includes plenty of things. human x non-sapient animal, family x family, minor x adult, etc. while some use this as a coping mechanism, many factors suggest it's not a very good one, especially if posted publicly. (I can elaborate if asked)
(in the case of fandoms having a different species as society instead of humans, human is just whatever species that is I think?)
personally, I'm a lightshipper, slightly wary of proshippers, and against darkshipping
if I got anything wrong please correct me!
