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[larryhammer]

I need help with fannish jargon: what’s the name for an anti-ship?

For example, in fics for Tamora Pierce’s Circle of Magic books, a sexual or romantic relationship between any of Sandry, Daja, Tris, or Briar is a Hard No for me—they are siblings full stop.

What’s the word for that?

---L.

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[watersword]

I've seen that called "a nOTP".

[larryhammer]

Aha. Thanks.

[sovay]

I need help with fannish jargon: what’s the name for an anti-ship?

"NOTP" is the one I've heard. It might also be appropriate for you to describe the relationship pattern as a squick.

(I was just talking to spatch last night about David Goodis' The Burglar, a 1953 novel and 1957 film whose central relationship involves two characters who are unrelated to one another, but have spent the balance of their lives in a quasi-sibling, quasi-parental dynamic, and therefore the fact that they have become attracted to one another as adults is not an uncomplicated occasion for sexual union; it feels like incest to the older character, but it doesn't to the younger, and the narrative actually thinks the situation is tricky.)

[larryhammer]

That particular one is only sorta squicky for me. It feels like it breaks the canon author's contract with the reader too much to be interesting to read.

(That does sound like an interesting dynamic, and good on the narrative.)