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8	->''"Really the best thing about the smirk is that it demonstrates that literally a single pixel can serve as shipping fuel. It was worth it for that scientific demonstration alone."''
9	-->-- '''Creator/AndrewHussie''', on [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/382 this panel of]] ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''[[note]]Actually, it's four pixels, but we'll let that slide.[[/note]]
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11	Shipping Goggles is when a viewer interprets the smallest, most ambiguous [[{{Canon}} canonical]] evidence in favor of their {{ship\|ping}} of choice, even if said "evidence" is insignificant relative to other evidence, or outright nonexistent. Maybe that glance lasted just a ''little'' too long, or that remark in that conversation could be interpreted as innuendo. The ship in question can range from one that seems entirely plausible but doesn't yet have clear canon evidence, right up to a CrackPairing between characters who are [[FoeYayShipping bitter enemies]], [[CrossoverShip live in different universes]], [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight have never met]], or [[IncompatibleOrientation whose sexuality]]/circumstances makes any relationship between them extremely unlikely. Reasons for putting on Shipping Goggles vary; wishful thinking, to defend the ship against other competing ships, or JustForFun.
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13	Many shippers would admit to doing this to some extent; having your own interpretation of {{Canon}} is part of the fun of {{Shipping}}. However, it can become FanDumb when people try to [[ShipToShipCombat force their ships on others]]. And when such fans are RunningTheAsylum, things can get messy.
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15	Merely being an implausible pairing doesn't automatically mean that Shipping Goggles are in play, as often a ship's supporters will admit that their support for a particular pairing has nothing to do with the source material. The goggles are used to reinterpret {{canon}} events in was to promote or discourage character couples. While this usually goes hand-in-hand with goggles in favor of the fan's couple of choice, occasionally it is just simply aimed against a couple in general. Caution should be used not to confuse every case of LGBTFanbase {{Gaydar}} as Shipping Goggles -- if fans believe a character is gay, it is not necessarily because fans want to ship them.
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17	A subtrope of EpilepticTrees. Creators aware of their fans' Shipping Goggles can play to it with a ShipTease; this can be interpreted as {{Fanservice}} or just cruelty in suggesting a relationship that isn't going to materialize. Sometimes, [[IKnewIt the shipper turns out to be right]]. [[ShipSinking Other times...]] Examples of character shipping belong on one of the other ShippingTropes pages, like CrackPairing. If an in-universe character is wearing a set, that's ShipperOnDeck.
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19	TropeCo/ShippingGoggles[[TradeSnark ™]] are available on TropeCo/TropeCo™
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21	!!No examples, please. [[Administrivia/DefinitionOnlyPages This only defines the term.]]

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