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English
Etymology
Blend of Logan + Veronica, as a deliberate homophone of love.
Proper noun
LoVe
- (fandom slang) The ship of characters Logan Echolls and Veronica Mars from the television show Veronica Mars.
- 2008, Manuela Scherf, "Character Formation in Fan Fiction Based on Popular TV Series, thesis submitted to the University of Vienna, page 15:
- The complicated and, for fans, mostly frustrating relationship between these characters is the reason why stories dealing with Spuffy and LoVe pairings are by far more popular than stories based on any other possible ship.
- 2018, Ivan Askwith, quoted in The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom (Melissa A. Click & Suzanne Scott), unnumbered page:
- “LoVe” (Logan/Veronica) was a very rapid OTP (one true pairing) candidate.
2018, Annemarie Navar-Gill, “Fandom as symbolic patronage: expanding understanding of fan relationships with industry through the Veronica Mars Kickstarter campaign”, in Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, volume 16, number 3:Though all but two of my informants eventually self-identified as LoVe shippers—Eileen and Jodie were vocally opposed to the relationship, characterizing it as abusive—all were initially unwilling to involve that investment in their answers to my questions.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:LoVe.