[muthafuckathrowaway]

tumblr is the only place where you can encounter a blog belonging to a 32 year old woman writing about how badly they want characters to be r*ped and how hot child moleststionis “ONLY in fiction!!1!!” and they will still have the audacity to say “you asking me to take down my reblog of your post is making ME feel unsafe” to a teenager

[unholy-lover1985]

!RPF'ERS THIS POST ISNT FOR YOU THIS IS ANTI RPF DO NOT INTERACT FUCK OF! THIS PERSON IS ANTI RPF READ THE TAGS DUMBASSES!

[confusedgoldenflower]

Puritans & Purity Culture VS puriteens

Puritans

were “a religious reform movement in the late 16th and 17th centuries that sought to “purify” the Church of England of remnants of the Roman Catholic “popery”…. Their efforts to transform the nation contributed both to civil war in England and to the founding of colonies in America as working models of the Puritan way of life.”

“the Puritans were English Protestants who believed that the reforms of the Church of England did not go far enough. In their view, the liturgy was still too Catholic. Bishops lived like princes. Ecclesiastical courts were corrupt. Because the king of England was head of both church and state, the Puritans' opposition to religious authority meant they also defied the civil authority of the state.” [Second source, PBS]

“Puritanism may be defined primarily by the intensity of the religious experience that it fostered. Puritans believed that it was necessary to be in a covenant relationship with God in order to be redeemed from one’s sinful condition, that God had chosen to reveal salvation through preaching, and that the Holy Spirit was the energizing instrument of salvation. Calvinist theology and polity proved to be major influences in the formation of Puritan teachings. This naturally led to the rejection of much that was characteristic of Anglican ritual at the time, these being viewed as “popish idolatry.” In its place the Puritans emphasized preaching that drew on images from scripture and from everyday experience. Still, because of the importance of preaching, the Puritans placed a premium on a learned ministry. The moral and religious earnestness that was characteristic of Puritans was combined with the doctrine of predestination inherited from Calvinism to produce a “covenant theology,” a sense of themselves as the elect chosen by God to live godly lives both as individuals and as a community.” [First source.]

They fled from England to the American colonies due to the crown’s pressing for conformity; they went to America for religious freedom (ironic given the prostelatization and attempt to force the whole of England).

“The Puritans believed God had chosen a few people, "the elect," for salvation. The rest of humanity was condemned to eternal damnation. But no one really knew if he or she was saved or damned; Puritans lived in a constant state of spiritual anxiety, searching for signs of God's favor or anger. The experience of conversion was considered an important sign that an individual had been saved. Faith, not works, was the key to salvation. But it was not only individual salvation that mattered; the spiritual health and welfare of the community as a whole was paramount as well, for it was the community that honored and kept the covenant. Over time this religious fervor diminished. Scholars disagree about when and why this happened. The Puritans themselves found it difficult to maintain a society in a state of creative uncertainty.” [PBS]

[Psy] “Our Puritan ancestors who came to the New World in 1620 were in many respects the product of their own time. They understood that the Jamestown Colony of 1607 almost failed due to social and political order breakdown. The early Puritan authoritarianism was partly an attempt to avoid the mistakes that almost destroyed Jamestown. As a result, punishments were swift, decisive, and cruel, as though meted out by a military tribunal.

This creativity, however, was not reflected in their attitudes toward art and literature. They regarded art and literature as competing with the Bible for the hearts and souls of Puritan parishioners. Puritan preachers enjoyed the privilege of writing poetry and then converting their poems into sermons that supported biblical truths. Human creativity among commoners, unless for some functional purpose, was more likely to be viewed as highly suspicious, even satanic, and deserving of extreme punishments.

The attitude toward women in Puritan societies was also derived primarily from the Bible. They believed Eve’s sin in the Garden of Eden had caused the biblical fall, and all of humanity was atoning for her transgressions. As a result, a woman in Puritan societies had stature only if she was married to a socially prominent, wealthy male member of her community.

The poor were viewed with equal disdain and hypocrisy. In the Puritan mind, wealth was a sign that someone was a member of the Elect and was destined for salvation. Conversely, the Puritans viewed the poor, including beggars and the homeless, as members of the Damned who were excluded from salvation. Hence, the poor were also among the first to be imprisoned and executed during witch hunts.

Another defining characteristic of the Puritans is that they had no qualms about intermixing church and state into a rigidly theocratic form of government. These theocracies could not be challenged or questioned in any way. Their leaders were considered the earthly reflection of God’s standards of moral behavior. Laws based on a scripture provided ironclad protection for Puritan leaders and their views.

The Puritans also insisted on the freedom to practice their religious beliefs. However, they denied other religions similar freedoms. Like all theocracies, they established a “dominant religion,” in their case based mostly on the Old Testament, and that religion often set out to destroy all competitors. The Quakers suffered greatly at their hands, as did any other religious sect that held different beliefs.

How does modern America reflect the thinking of our Puritan ancestors? Here are a few general observations my students suggested with very little prompting.

Book banning and burnings are back in vogue, and librarians and teachers are subjected to threats against their lives if they teach unacceptable subjects. The rationale for these threats is often deeply ingrained in the Bible's language, usually the Old Testament.

The Puritans largely ignored the New Testament’s message of love, tolerance, and mercy as it is today. Christ’s role in modern theocracies has been diminished even further, and his message is often relegated to that of an unwanted interloper.

The arts and literature have been gradually pushed to the very edges or even excluded from many modern K-12 and university-level curriculums. Literary classics have also been banished from classrooms and their authors silenced.

The roles of women in marriage and society are once again under attack. Some state governments are even debating what tests might be used to determine whether or not a woman is pregnant.

The separation of church and state is clearly under assault. Meanwhile, theocratic thinking reminiscent of earlier Puritan authoritarianism is increasingly common.

Today's poor and homeless are often subject to abuse and condemnation, much as in earlier Puritan communities. Some homeless have been attacked and killed simply for living on the streets, the only available place. Simultaneously, income inequality has escalated to the point where the poor comprise a growing percentage of the nation’s population.

As was the case with their seventeenth-century predecessors, today’s Puritans are determined, or so it seems, to take control of our private lives.

As the Europeans would say, “There go those Puritans again.””

“The Scarlet Letter” is a literature classic that shows the hypocracy and rigidness of that society through the main character and her relationships.

Purity Culture

is a Christian practice that defines one’s spiritual value by their purity. That purity doesn’t only include physical sexual interactions, it includes thoughts/desires/fantasies/wet dreams (thought crimes; thinking = doing), masturbation, porn consumption, clothing, and otherwise benign behavior of everyone of any age. Of course, any consideration around queerness isn’t included (and if it is, it’s largely in a derogatory sense).

A deep need to self police and also police others around oneself is very strong and begun very young.

It’s an impossible ideal to reach and specifications vary between groups, but it is easily seen in popular culture in victim blaming/rape culture, shaming literal toddlers for what they’re dressed into, policing girls’ bodies through school dress codes, and the view that teen boys and men are these sexual, hungry creatures that need external sources (church and threat of eternal damnation) to keep them in control and that marriage fixes all that. It includes the justifiably disparaged practice of a teen girl promising herself to her father through a purity ring; that she’ll stay pure for her future husband and that’s her value and gift to him, as she is “subservient” to whomever the man of the household she resides in is (being her father or husband). To wait for sex (and desire etc) for marriage is to bless your marriage to be successful and good, and to not do that means you’d doom yours. Girls and women must protect others and not themselves by covering up and avoiding acting and dressing “desirable” so as not to make others, including their own relatives, “stumble” (what is called a women and girls “respecting themselves”), and boys and men are predatory in nature and they must be tolerated, and if they harm you, it’s you’re fault and you’re value is lesser either way.

Indeed, the body, especially a woman’s, is dangerous to yourself and those around you, and your value is in what you don’t do. It sexualizes everyone including children, and to be part of a sexual interaction (outside marriage), a piece of them is now gone and they’ve been degraded. Religious leaders teach with a rose, telling especially the girls that everyone they have sex with will pick a petal and so eventually, their future husband will get a, frankly, shitty little Rose nobody would want. Or if especially a girl has been assaulted, that’s dog poop in the icecream and no, the icecream doesn’t want to be unappetising, but it’s still become so.

This is abstinence only teaching, instead of any sort of education of consent and sex because that would somehow “taint” the childrens’ minds and make them sin (consent and sex can and is able to be taught very age appropriately i.e. “I don’t want a hug,” and despite the evidence that education is 1-protection and 2-it’s the educated who initiate sex later and have a reduction of sexual risk behaviors) which deprives people of very important health information and even partner interactions.

That abstinence glorification and framework—if I only take part in the Good Things, then I’ll be good and righteous and worthy of His love and others’ approval—not only forces a poor relationship with sex and one’s body, skewing one’s sense of themselves (as single adults, damned if they look for a partner, damned if they don’t, and jumping into marriage even if they’re terrified of how to engage in intimacy and sex), but the mentality can lead to conditions such as anorexia. Many after marriage, have a difficult time with that “switch” of what they’re suddenly now allowed to do, especially when it’s so ingrained in them that it affects their sexual ability or performance.

Un-Religiously’s video: Purity Culture: A Deep Dive into Fear, Control and Identity lays it out well. It’s an hour so of course it goes into further detail.

Puriteens

along with “antis,” “nazis,” “bookburners,” “censorists” and other appropriated terms are what a certain community of people on the internet, especially in fandom, call people who speak out against the normalization, sexualization, glorification, sensationalization, fetishization and romanticization of different abuses and rape (incest, rape, abuse, necrophilia, zoophilia, and pedophilia) that’s prominent in the community’s art, and to want those abuses to be represented respectfully in art.

They accuse people of “kidifying” fandom, being “anti kink” and “sex negative” for wanting the basic consent of being able to choose what to interact with which includes seeing nsfw fanwork (which is commonly posted without adequate warnings and in non-nsfw areas) and of course, the above. They tokenise victims that agree with them (a coping mechanism does not equate to healthy/productive nor acceptable to plaster accessibly online), weaponise victimhood, and victim blame and harass those that they don’t like and/or that disagree with them. They call themselves “proship” due to their rhetoric and recruitment that “they just don’t believe anyone should be harassed for what they ship :),” but due to their behavior, are called “proshit” and “prononcon” by those outside of and critical of the community. They also call themselves a “movement”… which inspires concern as to their intentions.

More here.

The prononcons are not being accused of thought crimes, as encouraging rape and abuse through romanticization, etc etc of it is action. As is attacking victims of that abuse who inform them that the way they chose to portray that abuse is abhorrent, harassing people who also speak up, and harboring self proclaimed pedophiles. Making art of things such as pedophilia is actually a crime in some countries, and it’s not “book burning” or “censorship” to keep grooming material and material that encourages those urges from availability.

But that community believes all art is inconsequential due to “no real people being involved” even if it’s Real Person Fiction because the depictions are all made up (despite that person(s) not consenting to the depiction which is often nsfw), and also despite visual valency (we are automatically impacted by what we take in through our senses) and that the most common csam image is the cartoon Coppertones logo (people escalate and porn sites seem to speed that).

Nor are they being told not to make nsfw art, just to be respectful about it which includes correct and accessible labelling, publishing it in areas designated for that pornographic content, and respecting victims eVeN iF tHeYrE nOt ReAl because representation matters (especially when we’re all stuck in rape culture anyway).

[robsdiary]

“baby’s first fandom” SHUT THE FUCK UP 😭

[thesicksys]

btw reminder again that being anti proship is the default ^_^ you can portray toxic/taboo relationships ^_^ portrayal isn't romanticization ^_^ glorifying grooming / incest / pedophilia isn't funny ^_^ idgaf if you're "coping" you say yourself proship is a stance ^_^ keep it to yourself ^_^

[v0id-clawz]

"Censorship in media is bad and people should be allowed to write what they choose to" and "Writing a story where SA/abuse is glorified and romanticised is not a good thing to do" are statements that I think should be able to coexist

[syscomingdown]

lukewarm take: if proshipping is simply not hating on ppl for who they ship, then "proship" is a COMPLETELY useless term

thats BASIC HUMAN DECENCY

BUT if you not hating on something like josuke x jotaro x joseph or have any form of repulsion & hatred towards it

then i fear we may be steering in the wrong direction

see im not gonna attack you for shipping bkdk even tho i HATE it but im going to DESPISE ur guts if you ship smth like abuser x victim or minor x adult

even if i had NO enemies id NEVER label myself as a fuckasd proshitter

[faewhisper]

Alright let me just pop the fuck off for a minute.

Being anti is not pro-censorship. But it’s the best argument proshippers got, so they won’t shut the fuck up about it.

I suppose next you motherfuckers are going to start drawing racist art, and when someone tells you that it’s wrong, you’re going to say “OH WE CAN DRAW WHAT WE WANT! IT’S ALL IMAGINARY! IT DOESN’T HURT ANYONE! DON’T CENSOR US!”

Not really sure why making something inherently wrong can’t be seen as inherently wrong. Drawing racist caricatures is wrong. Romanticizing kids fucking adults is wrong. Like you can write about it and make art, but for fuck’s sake, don’t make it your dreamy anime lovey bullshit. It’s fucked up. Making art and writing about sexualized kids in a positive light makes you a fucking pedophile. Acting on said paraphilia makes you a pedophile. Putting shit into the world that harms minors makes you a pedophile.

Literally fuck off? Grow up and take accountability for your actions instead of slapping a bandaid over it and terrorizing anti blogs because you feel bad about yourself.

[bleedingdulcie]

Daily reminder to hate on AO3 and remember that they actively support having sexual rpf of minors.

[papyruslesbian-moved]

People who condemn fandom racism, homophobia, transphobia, etc. and talk about how we need more and better representation of minorities in media but then turn around and say that fandom incest, pedophilia, and abuse are ok because “they’re just ships” and “fiction doesn’t affect reality” will never cease to boggle my mind. Like the amount of congnitive dissonance is utterly astounding and I can’t imagine being that stupid or willfully ignorant

[sincerely-aaliyah]

I know I already made a post about this, but why is pedophilia so normalized?? I keep seeing posts with the tags “m@ps please interact”, “irl shota”, “irl loli”, “xenosatanist” and more. how did we get to the point where you can say that you’re a pedophile on social media and all you’ll get is praise and attention?

people making posts like “minors can consent”/“adults and minors should kiss” is NOT something that should be excused. even if you’re just joking, that’s not something you should joke about.

[rhiatargoed]

❥ Reminder: Please know that you are not automatically a proshipper if you self-ship, no matter what those crazy bastards try to tell you! No, self-shipping wasn’t “invented by proshippers”; that’s simply not true whatsoever considering self-shipping has been around for wayyyyyyy longer than the existence of the proship label and just fandom all together. Humans throughout history have daydreamed about smooching made-up characters and made works to express those feelings; a bunch of predators online definitely didn’t invent that, and it’s insane to see so many of them convince themselves and try to manipulate vulnerable people (especially minors) into believing that.

And sorry not sorry, but I’m going to be really blunt here and say: you literally cannot identify as proship and uphold the core belief that “fiction doesn’t affect reality” while simultaneously identifying as fictoqueer… It’s a fucking oxymoron, and you look stupid, because guess what??? You’re a real person! And fiction is directly influencing your very real sexuality and relationships!

But yeah, self-shippers and proshippers are not “siblings”, and we’re not “all holding hands”, and the self-shippers who are just having harmless fun with their f/os have a right to want nothing to do with that sick and twisted community. People should be allowed to have boundaries that make them feel safe, without having a weirdo in their ear trying to guilt them into thinking otherwise.

Proshippers can bitch and whine all they want, but the truth is the self-ship community is much better off without them polluting it.

Proshippers/Varients + Neutrals and Daisuke Juarez (mw) + Shane (sdv) Doubles Please DNI!!

[antiproship-lizzie]

You can be anti-censorship and antishipper! I am anti-censorship and I hate pro/darkshippers. you're free from censorship, not criticism !! <3

[gravit8ting-deactivated20260419]

Dude, why is it that almost every proshipper I have ever come across and/or interacted with HAVE A VICTIMIZATION PROBLEM.

It’s like they’re pointing a gun at you; and once you start calling them out on their bullshit, they turn the gun around and towards them, and then claim that you’re harassing them.

They breaks DNIS, spread lies/accusations, misgender and use deadnames on people who disagree with them, harass and threaten people with death/r4pe/etc threats and so on….

…But then all of a sudden, all of their actions go OUT the window and into your hands because you called them out. The moment you call out their actions, they’re accusing you of all the shit that they had done.

[sweet-discordia]

I'm sick of censorship

But I'm also sick of these tone deaf cunts too.

I'm anti censorship but pro media literacy LMAO. Also pro staying in yo fucking lane and using the right tags <3

Like, stop bringing your fictional shit into talks about censorship to do with facts and news.

I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH BUT LOOK

THERE'S A CLIMATE CRISIS HAPPENING IN AUSTRALIA, MULTIPLE ACTUALLY!!!

and news about it is actively being shadow banned or removed on platforms, and the news REFUSES to talk about it!!!

[mizisuaenthusiast]

"proshipping isn't that bad!! It means we accept all kinds of shippers and ships—"

enabler 🫵🫵🫵🫵

[rabiesbites]

"Proship doesn't mean we ship controversial ships, it just means we don't mind if other people do!"

Ok but you do realize that darkshipping is an online space which actively romanticizes pedophilia, incest, and zoophilia, openly inviting children in while writing the most graphic "sexy" depictions of rape you'll ever see and treating it like some "forbidden love" fantasy.

And if you see this and you, as the proshipper, decide you have no issue with this and just passively condone and support this, you're still not the good guy in this situation, you're just the bystander who watched little children get groomed and "didnt think it was serious enough to step in".

"I dont ship it, i just support others who do" is still pretty shitty when it comes to darkships