摘抄《Psychology of Shipping》

The Psychology of Shipping

Do you want Ross and Rachel to become a couple? Hermione and Harry? Or are you against these pairings? If so, you're a shipper.

你想让罗斯和瑞秋在一起吗？你觉得赫敏和哈利是一对吗？还是说你觉得他们不该在一起？如果是这样，你就是一个磕CP的人。

You are shipping a couple if you want two fictional characters of a TV show or film to have a romantic relationship.

如果你想让电视节目或电影中的两个虚构角色展开一段浪漫的关系，那么你就正在磕一对CP。

The term "shipping" comes from "relationshipping". And shipping became a truly global phenomenon with two extremely popular narratives, The Harry Potter series and Friends.

“shipping”这个词来源于“relationshipping”。随着《哈利·波特》和《老友记》这两个故事风靡全球，磕CP已经真正成为了一个全球现象。

Probably the most visible shipper community, is the Harry Potter fandom. What makes shipping in this context even more a question of life and death is that there are at least two couples to ship: Hermione and Ron or Hermione and Harry.

磕CP磕得最有声有色的可能要属哈利波特的粉圈了。在这种情况下，磕哪一对可能是一个生死攸关的问题，因为有至少两对可以选择：赫敏和罗恩，或者赫敏和哈利。

Here is how J. K. Rowling describes her encounter with shipping:

J·K·罗琳描述了她第一次与CP粉的相遇:

"One day I looked at fan sites and oh —my —god. 'What is going on?' And it was during that first time that I met the shippers, and it was a most extraordinary thing. I had no idea there was this huge underworld seething beneath me."

“有一天我在浏览粉丝网站，我的天啊！‘这是什么？’我第一次见到这些CP粉的时候，我觉得这是一件不同寻常的事。我不知道居然有这么广阔的地下世界在沸腾。”

What I take the main characteristic of shipping is, that all other considerations in the creative work are deemed irrelevant, compared to the interest in getting the shipped couple together.

我认为同人作品的主要特点是，其目的是让这对夫妇走到一起，相比之下，其他的考虑都是无关紧要的。

The truth is that it is not possible to understand contemporary TV, even the most highbrow and sophisticated choices the artists make, without understanding shipping and its influence on the creative process.

事实是，如果不了解观众磕CP的狂热对于作品创作的影响，就不可能理解当代电视节目，即使是艺术家们创作出的最高雅的作品也不能免俗。

Even HBO's The Young Pope —one of the most highbrow TV shows ever aired and definitely not one whose subject matter would cry out for romantic entanglements —has played with the audience's shipping reflexes.

HBO的《年轻的教皇》——有史以来最高雅的电视节目之一，其题材绝对不需要囊括爱情纠葛——也迎合了观众磕CP的强烈需求。

Shipping reveals a lot about our society and about just how lonely people often feel. It is this loneliness that fuels the need to experience romance and love at least vicariously. And what better way is there to do so than shipping?

磕CP这一现象反映了我们社会的许多方面，也反映了人们常常感到多么孤独。正是这种孤独感催生了感受浪漫和爱情的需求，至少是间接的需求。为了满足这种需求，还有什么比磕CP更好的方式呢？