Neverending Romance
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| Name: | Neverending Romance: The Incomplete Nightmare Neverending Romance -- The Shipping List Revival |
| Owner/Maintainer: | Luna Tiger (2007-2013) esm8m (2013-2014 (possibly 2017)) Manqoba and Lillie (2019-2024+) |
| Dates: | 2007 - 2017; 2019 - current |
| Topic: | Community-created Pokémon relationship name list |
| URL: | (Jan 2024) Neverending Romance -- The Shipping List Revival, Archived version (2011) Neverending Romance: The Incomplete Nightmare, Archived version (2017) Tumblr extension of the (un)official Pokémon shipping list, Archived version |
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Neverending Romance is a community-created relationship name list for Pokémon fandom. It has been part of the fandom since 2007 and is an incredibly useful resource for documenting its shipping culture.
The list is hosted on Bulbapedia's Bulbagarden forum. While it was once its own website, it is now hosted as a forum post. As of November 2011, it had over 11,000 different pairing names.
Neverending Romance takes suggestions for potential keyword pairing names and compares them to pairing names already coined. If the name is available, the ship will have its own -shipping name. Even if a pairing only has one shipper, the pairing is allowed on the list. Pairing names' inclusions on the list are not indicative of endorsement.
The list's hayday was from 2007 to 2013, when many pairings were coined, many with only one fan. In later years, the -shipping name formula would be less centralized to the pairing list, though many were still coined on the Tumblr account for the list from 2013 to 2017, coinciding with Generation VII in the Pokémon series.
In 2019, with the release of Pokémon Sword and Shield, the pairing list was "revived." As of 2024, the list now has pairings from Pokémon Red and Blue to Pokémon Scarlet and Violet's The Teal Mask and The Indigo Disk DLC.
Pairings listed double for both platonic and romantic interpretations of the ship in question, though in practice, most names are only used for their romantic interpretations.
Further Links
- Villainous Ships, a list of villain x villain ship names. All of these names (or at least most of them) are now included in the main list.
- FalknerProject, a list of ship names featuring Falkner.