A fight between fans over which characters should be together, conducted with charts, fanfiction and the intensity of a religious schism, and revived in 2025 by hockey players and a teen drama's summer. The record's entry for the argument that has ended more friendships than politics.
The record has 'shipping'. This is the war, and the record notes that every ship war in the file was won by whoever the writers chose, and that the losers never conceded.
Correction to the headnote: Ship War was not coined, it was noticed. Someone said it, someone else screenshotted it, and the screenshot is the coinage.
Filed as evidence: a job listing that asked candidates to demonstrate "Ship War energy". Screenshot attached. The listing has since been edited.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
