Ship Manifesto

Fanlore defines a ship manifesto as a meta essay whose purpose is to introduce a ship to fans and advocate for it. Such essays typically combine character analysis, canon details and commentary on the pairing's interactions, and an overview of fan activity around the ship, including community links and fanwork recommendations; some add picspams. Newer versions often appear as videos. The term has been used since the early 2000s and comes from the LiveJournal community The Shipper's Manifesto, which Fanlore says ran from 2004 until its last update in January 2018. Some communities restrict pairings such as those with large age gaps, incest or real-person fiction, while others accept any ship that is labelled properly.