>>50416381You can still very much be part of a shipping fandom without ever experiencing the source material. Anyway the point I was trying to make is that there's nothing odd or wrong about shipping favorite characters together, it is only when these same people turn dumb fun into some perverse romantic warfare that it becomes all kinds of diseases.
You can root for your, pokeshipping, pearlshipping, advanceshipping, amourshipping without turning it into as if you were rooting for your favorite team to win the superbowl or whatever.