/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>Ships are ladies, or little girls, or trollops. You love them or you hate them; you have an affectionate name for them, or a funny name, or one in which the Anglo-Saxon predominates. They have personalities.
>Ships are female. they are made to find their glory in pain. To die while swimming men look on in dumb, throat-constricted misery, more conscious of the ship's agony than their own. They are made to fight proudly and gloriously... to win (sometimes to lose) and come home, smiling through the hurt.
>That is why men love a ship. When they are hurt in body, she is hurt in body; and they believe that when they suffer within through loneliness and fear, she must suffer so.