Stevie & Lindsey Intimacy

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by michelej1

I wear my sunglasses at night . . .

They had just posed for the cover of Rolling Stoned.

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by vivfox

They had just posed for the cover of Rolling Stoned.

Good one!

[Dove]

Stevie is so tiny! She's fun sized haha

[CADreaming]

[ragrsrocalot]

A little intimate ( sit the fu@k down ) hair pull.

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[beccamorrisfift]

This thread makes me so happy.

[Silver Springs]

Originally Posted by beccamorrisfift

This thread makes me so happy.

Me too. It's like a gallery of adorable Lindsey moments. He does have some very zany moments. I mean, when was the last time you found a picture of another musician biting the elbow of his ex-girlfriend on stage?

[kaitsy]

Originally Posted by Silver Springs

Me too. It's like a gallery of adorable Lindsey moments. He does have some very zany moments. I mean, when was the last time you found a picture of another musician biting the elbow of his ex-girlfriend on stage?

Too true

[michelej1]

Here is an Entertainment Weekly article that discusses the etymology of the term "shipper" which people have asked about and explained on this board.
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Meet the Shippers: TV’s Weirdest Fans
(From Entertainment Weekly’s 2/10/12 issue)
Love gets expressed in some wonderful and very weird ways in the world of television, from the passionate kiss to a penetrating bite on the neck. But last spring on Fox’s Fringe, Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson) set a radical new standard for romantic gestures: He tried to change the future in order to save the life of his destined-to-die soul mate, Olivia (Anna Torv), and wound up erasing himself from history (and her memory) in the process. All together now: Awwwwwwwww.

Exec Producers Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman - whose careful cultivation of the relationship between the two sci-fi heroes over three seasons includes monitoring message boards and social media for fan feedback - believed that viewers would be moved by Peter’s trippy sacrifice. Fox and Warner Bros. Television, which produces the show, were cool with the decision. But they did warn the writers that their heartbreaking cliff-hanger could backfire with fans deeply invested in the Peter/Olivia relationship. Fans who write sexy fan fiction and produce music video valentines about the characters, and who would be suspicious and alarmed by any move that kept them apart, even temporarily.

Turns out the suits were right. “The shippers,” says Wyman, “have not been very happy with us this year.”

No, we’re not talking about Fringe’s legion of seafaring viewers. We’re talking about an increasingly influential subset of TV fandom fixated on romantic relationships (hence the name “shippers”), or the potential for romance, between characters. Once, shipping was mostly a sci-fi/fantasy thing. Today, shipping - like love - knows no bounds. 30 Rock has Jack-and-Liz shippers. NCIS:Los Angeles has Kensi-and-Marty shippers. There are even - no joke - Simon-and-Paula shippers. (They’re grieving, so please: soft giggles.) Most show runners in Hollywood consider shippers to be a minority voice - but an important one. “Shippers are the people who are most engaged in the show, so they don’t represent the biggest statistical sample,” says Andrew Marlowe, creator of Castle. “But they really are your core audience, and you can gauge the level of investment of your entire fan base by their interactions with you.” And because shippers express their passion so publicly, they produce a noisy energy that showrunners can’t ignore, even if they wanted to. “I put all my efforts into shutting out the shippers,” says Bones exec producer Hart Hanson, who last season finally allowed Dr. Temperance “Bones” Brennan and FBI Agent Seely Booth to consummate an epic, six-season will-they-or-won’t-they dance. “But it had to have an influence. It had to.”

Most TV shows are flattered by the intense attention paid by their shipper fans. The producers of ABC’s rookie hit Once Upon a Time were thrilled to see quick emergence of shippers devoted to the budding relationship between Emma Swan and Sheriff Graham, as it meant their fairy-tale fantasy was accomplishing it’s mission. “Romance, the journey to find love, that’s all ingrained in the very DNA of what we’re trying to do,” says exec producer Edward Kitsis. “It’s great to go online and see that choices paid off for you.” (Not long after fans fell for Emma and Graham, the producers broke their hearts by killing off Graham. Teases co-creater Afam Horowitz: “All great relationships start off with hope, and the hope that it can overcome all obstacles. What greater obstacle is there than death?”) The CW’s Supernatural - which owes its seven seasons to a fiercely loyal and dynamic fan base - has periodically winked at it’s “Wincestors,” shippers who write sexually charged fan fiction about bogeyman-hunting brothers Sam and Dean Winchester. “We have no judgement about that,” says exec producer Sera Gamble. “We’re glad we spark people’s creativity.”

Yet other shows can have a more tortured relationship with shippers. Case in point: Bones. From the get-go, Hanson envisioned a franchise that offered weekly murder mysteries and ongoing romantic tension between its opposites-attract leads. He routinely goes online to look for useful feedback, which means slogging through posts by more virulent shippers - Hanson calls them “the dim nasties” - who resent him for doing his job: sustaining the very chemistry that hooks shippers by producing obstacles (romantic rivals!) and complications (romantic baggage!) designed to keep would-be lovers apart for as long as possible. “It was like I was messing with their own romances!” says Hanson. “You do everything you can to get people to care that much. But if I had listened to the shippers, Bones and Booth would have gotten together at the end of season 1.” Somewhere, shippers are asking, “And that would be a problem why?”

Shipping existed long before the term was coined. See: Moonlighting, Cheers, decades of Soap Operas. Oh, and Star Trek. Gene Roddenberry’s groundbreaking sci-fi series from the late ’60s was the big bang of modern-day fan culture. Among those first Trekkers was a subset of fans, mostly female, energized by the fanciful notice of a romance between Captain Kirk and Spock. They began writing Kirk/Spock fan fiction, and in this way, “slash” shipping (which focuses on same sex couples) was born and remains popular today. According to scholars like Kristina Busse, who teaches at the University of South Alabama, shipping and slashing became ways for maginalized, neglected female sci-fi fans to express their passion for their favorite shows, lay claim to the narrative, and even impishly subvert a geek fan culture that until recently has been largely male-targeted and male-driven.

But shipping as we understand it today began with another sci-fi saga about FBI agents investigating the fringes of weird science. “The fans of the X-files were among the first to take their fandom online,” says Christine Scodari, a professor at Florida Atlantic University. “It was really two grounds: those who called themselves ‘shippers’ , who wanted Mulder and Scully to develop a relationship, and the ‘noromos’, who didn’t want that in any way, shape, of form.” X-Files shippers were largely woman who identified strongly with Scully (or crushed hard on Mulder) and found something inspiring about an intimate rapport between a man and woman who respected each other’s intellect and wee struggling together through life’s rich drama… which, for them, involved exposing an alien takeover via killer bees and black oil. Says Scodari “It really was a commentary on contemporary relationships.” By the end of the X-Files’ nine-season run, Mulder and Scully had knocked trench coats and produced a child. But creator Chris Carter always kept the hot-and-heavy off screen, not wanting to upset the show’s winning chemistry and irk the “noromos.” Prior to the release of the 2008 film The X-Files: I want to Believe, Carter told EW: “I want you to take that relationship and imagine it could be real…. Maybe I’m the original shipper.”

Two more shows key to the development of shipper culture were Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Xena: Warrior Princess, an early example of a show that played to - and with - it’s shipper following. Xena’s emotional heart was the friendship between Lucy Lawless’ titular heroine and her young sidekick, Gabrielle (Renee O’Connor). The show would occasionally hint that they were lovers, which activated the slashers, which spurred the producers to push it even more. “Once the fans picked up on it, it was like gas to the fire,” says Xena creator Robert Tapert, who during the sixth and final season recruited to the writing staff a fan named Melissa Good, whose well-regarded slash fiction dramatized what the show would only imply. Xena and Gabrielle’s kiss in the series finale, says Tapert, was a farewell reward for the show’s ardent shippers.

Today, shipping isn’t just a rebel call or DIY wish fulfillment but one more way for fans to be fans in an era in which geek is mainstream and romantic fantasies, dark and otherwise, are all the rage. Shippers don’t just ship unlikely couples - they’ll ship anything with a romantic pulse. Evoking Twilight’s Team Edward-vs.-Team Jacob clash, Scodari says: “These days it is not a question of ‘to ship or not to ship.’ Now it’s a question of competing desires. Which couple will win?” The object of their affections may be fictional, and yes, their pop culture crushing can be scary. But for many, the benefit - and perhaps true motivation - is community with other fans. Elmedina D., 15, a fan of The Vampire Diaries, is attracted to two competing ships - Damon and Elena, and Stefan and Elena - and makes music videos dedicated to both couples. “When I hear a song, it just reminds me of a certain couple, just screams ‘This is perfect for them!’ and you want to make a video,” she says. Jodi Zeramby, 40, has written fan fiction imagining a romance between Alicia and bisexual Kalinda from The Good Wife. Authorial intent is a hotly debating topic among shippers, and Zeramby is convinced she’s onto something. “When you look at how close they got on the show, what they’re willing to do for each other, I think it’s there.”

Kara Estes, 29, is a slightly more typcial TV shipper. She’s a longtime Nathan Fillion fan and loyal Castle viewer, which automatically makers her a shipper, as the ABC drama is all about slowly bringing mystery novelist Castle and police detective Beckett together. “I’d say 90% of fan fiction is about their relationship,” says Estes, who spends about four hours a week blogging, tweeting, and chatting online about Castle. She doesn’t write fan fiction, but she reads it, and her affection for the Castle fan community inspired her to create the Castle Fanfic Awards. “Everyone has a hobby,” shes says. “My dad rebuilds old cars; I have Castle.”

THE SHIPPER GLOSSARY:

Shipper: Derived from the world relationship, a fan who’s deeply invested in the romance - or possibility of romance - between two characters. Shipping runs the gamut between “just having fun” and “scary-stalker serious”.

Noromos:Dating back to the days of The X-Files, these are the fans who oppose the idea of romance between characters. (Get it? No romance.) They’re often hardcore geeks who think the mushy stuff gets in the way of more interesting things, like investigating mysteries, flying spaceships, or killing monsters.

Shipper War:Conflict between rival shipper groups. The battleground: website message boards.

Stelenas vs. Delenas:Shippers of The Vampire Diaries are typically divided into two camps: those who want to see Stefan and Elena hook up, and those who want to see Damon and Elena hook up.

Smooshing:That annoying thing where people cook up nicknames, like Stelena and Delena? That’s smooshing.

Fanfic:Short for fan fiction, a very popular, creative way for shippers to express themselves.


Crossover: Shippers who forge an imaginary coupling between characters from different pop culture properties - say, Princess Leia and Harry Potter.

Mary Sue:
When fans write fanfic that uncludes an idealized character clearly based on themselves, that character is called a Mary Sue. (Mary Sues often get romantically involved with the fan’s favorite character.)

Slash:
A type of shipper - or subgenre of shipper fanfic - that advocates for a relationship to blossom between two same-sex characters.

Wincestors:The out-there group of Supernatural fans who fantasize about romance between the show’s heros, brothers Sam and Dean. Yes, we said brothers.

[CADreaming]

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Here's a new BN pic for all the shippers --- and even you non shippers who may be interested in seeing it :

[Silver Springs]

Originally Posted by CADreaming

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Here's a new BN pic for all the shippers --- and even you non shippers who may be interested in seeing it :

O_o? Is this real? It doesn't look like them at all.