1999, Darcy Rice, "An Advocate of Perfection", Orange Coast Magazine, June 1999, page 38:
The non-shipppers are those fans who are opposed to Ham and Mac having a relationship.
2001, "Amblin", quoted in Christine A. Wooley, "Visible Fandom: Reading The X-Files Through X-Philes", Journal of Film and Video, Volume 53, Number 4, Winter 2001-2002, page 40:
Carter knows about the debate raging amongst the various shipper/non-shipper camps.
2013, Leora Hadas, "Resisting the romance: ‘Shipping’ and the discourse of genre uniqueness in Doctor Who fandom", European Journal of Cultural Studies, Volume 16, Issue 3 (2013), page 337:
In these terms, Ten/Rose has a highly privileged position among Doctor Who pairings, and it seems that this position exactly engenders a powerful resistance to it among non-shippers.
Given that the final season of The West Wing itself officially sanctioned the relationship, non-shippers could no longer rely upon the ambiguity of producers' statements as 'evidence' to verify that the romance existed only in the minds of shippers.
2015, Matthew Raymond Holowienka, "Fan Practices And Doctor Who: 'Nu Who,' Fan Works, And Shipping", thesis submitted to Saint Peter's University, page 19:
Because Hadas (2009) discovered a divide among shippers and non-shippers on LiveJournal, these questions served to investigate if that same divide existed on Tumblr.
2016, Jaquelin Elliott, "Becoming The Monster: Queer Monstrosity and the Reclamation of the Werewolf in Slash Fandom", Revenant, Issue 2 (2016), page 99:
The cast accepts questions concerning Sterek and they even joke about it but when the show airs the only signs of Sterek are interactions between Stiles and Derek that non-shippers don’t pay attention to.
2017, Kinga Kowalska, "Embodied Soulmarks and Social Expectations: The Materialization of Romantic Love in Soulmate AU Fanfiction", in The Materiality of Love: Essays on Affection and Cultural Practice (eds. Anna Malinowska & Michael Gratzke), page 216:
In many cases, though, such stories make little sense to non-‘shippers’ (fans who do not see the characters as compatible) and require at least minimal knowledge of the ‘fanon’ (fan canon or fan-established recurring motifs) behind a particular pairing.
