Shipping Out

Shipping Out is an essay by Martin J. Pollard. The title is a play on Kara Wild's anti-shipper fic "'Shipped Out".

Writing in 1999, he discusses Daria/Trent and Jane/Jane shippers and the contemporary shipping debate after "Lane Miserables"; he argues that he finds too many fics have to write the cast out of character to get them together and praises fics like Michelle Klein-Hass's that he thinks pull it off.

This is an interesting essay years later, both due to Jane/Jesse shipping having died out and one claim was there's little evidence of Trent being interested - "Jane's Addition" would prove him right a few weeks later!