Fleets and Armadas

In fandom, supporting a relationship between two people is called "shipping" them. The idea of them together is a "ship." I have many ships - so many that I feel the need to a) write them all down to catalog them and b) blog about them.

Ariel and I were recently discussing whether to call our many ships a fleet or an armada. We learned that an armada is bigger than a fleet, and so all our ships together constitutes an armada rather than a fleet. But we both like the sound of a fleet better, and in Battlestar Galactica the entire human race's ships is called a fleet. So we call our ships our fleets.

I call my ships by either names for the ships that fandoms have given (like Harmony, Snarry, or Johnlock) or by just the two names of the characters involved. Ship names are prefaces by either HMS or USS, depending on if the fandom they're from is British or American.

Flagships are my strongest, most proud ship within a fandom. Submarines are my anti-ships, or couples I really don't like together. I have romantic ships and platonic ships (see Heterosexual Life Partners).

In the future, I will probably post about individual ships. For now, there's grammar to study, showers to take, food to eat, bedrooms to clean up, outside to think about visiting, and some running shoes to put to use.