Citations:NOTP

Noun: "(fandom slang) a ship that one strongly dislikes"

 * 2013, Kristal Frenero, "Fifty shades of fan crazy", The Talon Newsmagazine (John A. Ferguson Senior High, Miami, FL), Volume 10, Issue 2, February 2013, page 8:
 * However, if they come back, I'm sure the new "fangirl repellant" will have already been released and the smell of their “NOTP” (their most hated pairing) will drive them away.
 * 2013, "Severus Snape", "Ship happens", The Sandscript (Sanderson High School, Raleigh, BC), March 2013 (April Fool's issue), page 5:
 * Usually it is best to keep your NOTP to yourself, unless you wish to start a shipping war.
 * 2013, "tigeress", quoted in Marie Louise Öhman & Johanna Östlund, "Supernatural: Fans, tolkningsprocesser och meningsskapande", paper submitted to the University of Gävle, page 19:
 * I only have 1 NOtp that I can actually think of at any time and that is Megstiel. I love Meg as a villain but the thought of her and Cas is gross to me, and I don’t like it at all.
 * 2014, Ajantha Nadesalingam & Caitlin Heffernan, "A Brief History of Shipping", Graffiti (North Toronto Collegiate Institute, Toronto, ON), page 32:
 * A NOTP is a relationship that you do not want to be real.
 * 2014, P.D.T. Staps, "A Good-Enough Fan Within the Online Fan Community of Game of Thrones: An E-Ethnographic Study", thesis submitted to Tilburg University, page 55:
 * Similarly, stans of the Jaime/Cersei pairing often avoid stans of the Jaime/Brienne pairing because it is their least favorite pairing (also known as their “notp”).
 * 2015, Sam Maggs, The Fangirl's Guide to the Universe: A Handbook for Girl Geeks, pages 66-67:
 * Add the words you want to avoid to your black list (anything from your NOTP to seriously triggering topics), and posts containing them will never again show up on your dash.
 * 2016, Bethany A. Scettrini, "Fan Responses to Orphan Black and The 100 via Blogs, Fan Fiction, and Ship Wars", thesis submitted to Baylor University, page 50:
 * Concurrently, we have a multiplicity of OTPs, NOTPs (ships we adamantly do not want to see), BROTPs (pairings we “ship” as friends or “bros”), and constant dueling identities.
 * 2018, Francesca DiPiazza, Fandom: Fic Writers, Vidders, Gamers, Artists, and Cosplayers, page 101:
 * A fan's disliked ship is a NOTP or NOtp.
 * 2018, Donna Jeanne Barth, "Exploring Explicit Fanfiction as a Vehicle for Sex Education Among Adolescents and Young Adults", thesis submitted University of South Florida, page 28:
 * Common derivations include NOTP (a pairing one does not like), BrOTP (a favored non-romantic pairing), and OT3, OT4, etc. (terms for polyamorous pairings with more than two partners) (Fanlore n.d.).
 * 2019, Amy Pollard, "An investigation of fanfiction readers' and writers' views on fanfiction, with a focus on LGBTQ+ themes", Mesh: The Journal for Undergraduate Work Across English Studies, Issue 3 (2009), pages 22-23:
 * When questioned on why they disliked their ‘NOTP’, most respondents claimed it was often due to notable inclusion of paedophilic, incestuous, abusive, or non-consensual relationships and intercourse within the stories.
 * 2020, Luciana, quoted in Adrienne E. Raw, "Fandom Discussion: Knowledge, Intersections, and Tensions of Self, Community, and Social Justice", dissertation submitted to The University of Michigan, page 189:
 * almost anything that doesn't contain my NOTPs. Because I love my fandoms and most of them are dead, I tend to ship rarepairs so any piece of content is valuable even if I don't like it after I've seen it [o]r read
 * 2020, Katharine Elizabeth McCain, "Today Your Barista Is: Genre Characteristics in The Coffee Shop Alternate Universe", dissertation submitted to Ohio State University, page 64:
 * Your OTP is in every way the opposite of your NOTP, a portmanteau of “no” and “OTP.”
 * 2020, Devie Rahmawati, Wiratri Anindhita, Decintya, Amelita Lusia, & Ngurah Rangga Wisesa, "An Ethnography of Shipping as a Communication Practice Within the Fujoshi Community in Indonesia", Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, Volume 426, page 448:
 * NOTP stands for Not One True Pairing and refers to a widely disliked pairing.
 * 2021, Renee Ann Drouin, "'Fans Are Going To See It Any Way They Want It': The Rhetorics of the Voltron: Legendary Defender Fandom", dissertation submitted to Bowling Green State University, page 58:
 * For them, it goes far beyond just having a NOTP (a personal dislike of a ship)--they believe the ship or media is inherently harmful to real people in some way, and they attack fans of it in an attempt to stamp out its very existence ”(Genderqueer, queer, white, mid/late 20s).