Crack Shipping

By Kismet

There's something almost beautiful about the concept behind Crack shipping.

There are canon ships, like Danny/Sam and Tucker/Valerie. There are even semi-canon ships like Vlad/Maddie or Danny/Paulina. There are even enough slash ships that make a lick of sense, like Fenton/Phantom.

But a crack ship knows no bounds.

Crack ship is normally defined as a pairing that the majority of a fanbase deem unreasonable, illogical, or all-around weird. They normally involved characters who hate each other (Danny/Dash), have shown el zilcho interest for each other (Danny/Ember), or more often then not, have never met before in canon (Jazz/Clockwork).

It would be impossible for one to use a specific ship to emobody what is the Crack concept. But of all the different shipping genres, it is both the most ludicrous and the most unifying. A crack shit can be slash or het. It can involve humans, ghost, or both. It can involve inanimate objects, even! To be a Crack shipper is to put in your lot with the rest of the fandom.

But in all cases, Crack struggles to explore the depths of compatibility, to ask the most "What if?" and "Why not?" questions, to stretch imagination as far as one possibly can to make an inkling of sense of out a pairing. It takes guts to become a hardcore fan of a Crack ship.

For example:

What if Freakshow was so stricken by Jazz's understanding of his past that he learned to fall for her?
What if Dash needed a tutor and the only available person was Sam?
What if Tucker returned to the Ghost Zone as Dora's knight in shining armor?
What if, during all the years that Dan was Clockwork's prisoner, the two somehow make a strange and incomprehensible bond?
Why can't Sam and Valerie just give up on Danny and learn to get along?

Deep down, we are all Crack shippers, even if we don't know it. We have all wondered what would happen, and we all, for even a brief moment, smiled at the thought. Whether jokingly thrown together in an attempt to be random or honestly believed in, Crack shipping has by far made an impact on the fandom.

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