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[do-the-striders-ship-stridercest]

“Fiction Isn’t reality” 100 anti shippers: EXCEPT IT AFFECTS REALITY!!! 

Yeah, no shit marsha, that's why i said it like that. It isn’t reality. Get good. learn to read get off my blog. 

[do-the-striders-ship-stridercest]

It’s almost 2018

here’s a reminder that fiction isn’t reality, and that whatever you ship is valid. You deserve love, and you deserve kindness. I love you all. Have a good new years celebration, and block as you need too. <3

[batvenom-art]

Ummmm except fiction affects reality?

So no you can’t ship whatever you want. With that logic you’re saying it’s ok to ship pedophilia, which is 110% not ok.

Please stop trying to spread this toxic message

[kankrikinnie]

in addition, if “fiction doesnt affect reality” why would people care so much about representation? its bc fiction DOES affect reality! think of when you watch a horror movie or see a sad movie, your brain reacts to fiction just as it would if were real: you get scared or you cry, to continue with the examples. the rhetoric that “fiction doesnt affect reality” isnt entirely true. while i understand how one would think that, bc how could something fake have any weight in reality? but it does in numerous ways

i apologize op if this is a super old post and you have moved past this but this is also for people who still think that way. shipping incest, huge age gaps, abusive relationships, etc. isnt okay and it never will be!

[do-the-striders-ship-stridercest]

In case you didn’t realize the wording there, it says “Fiction isn’t reality.” Representation in fiction is important. But you know whats also important, allowing people to talk and share experiences in ways that don’t hurt people. And shipping two fictional brothers, or an abusive ship, or a ship with an age gap is exactly that for so many. The Strider’s aren’t real people. But their story, and their relationships and their dynamics resonate with real people. That's why this blog exists. To allow and encourage people to ship things, and read, and just have fun. 

Fiction affects reality on some levels, but it doesn’t the way Anti Shippers think it does. Just because you read hentai doesn’t mean you’re suddenly only gonna be attracted to an eldritch horror. If you read a murder mystery novel you’re not suddenly a cop. If you ship an abusive relationship, you’re not suddenly a part of one. If you read a comic that features an age gap, that doesn’t make you a pedophile. 

Those things I listed are within reality, pedophilia, age gaps, abuse, yes. All of those things are real. But unless a living breathing person is being hurt by another living breathing person, you shouldn’t care what people do. 

“But you hurt me by making content for it!!!” And? You have to look for it. That's the thing, tags exist for this reason. Fiction exists to explore dynamics, ideas, and topics that are uncomfortable in real life. Get used to it. It’s been that way since books were invented. 

[do-the-striders-ship-stridercest]

The day an anti comes to me with a peer-reviewed study with 20+ years of data behind it on how fiction affects reality in the long term is the day this blog gets deleted. 

[do-the-striders-ship-stridercest]

About the massive blocklist, I also managed to get two of my blogs on there and one also accused of pedophilia ID This never happened to me before... whelp

off, that's rough, Like I told last anon, turn off anon for a while if you need anything this inbox is open. That blocklist is the bane of peoples existence right now, I highly encourage you reporting it and the blog. 

[faetyl-deactivated20181021]

I’m so tired of fandom wank and the fact that at the drop of a hat a massive block list can be made accusing people of federal offenses without any proof. My name has a star by it and I want to know where I’ve put up anything related to underage characters that's nsfw. Especially on this sfw blog. I have 1 fic here. I liked a boy 18 months younger than me and ended up telling him no just this past year bc I was 18 and he was 17. Don’t cry wolf kids, else you won’t be believed. That’s all this purity politics is delegitimizing victims who use fandoms and fiction to escape abuse or come to terms with what happened to them. And every anti I’ve ever seen uses the same argument people in the 90s used for video games when a shooting happened. 

Don’t say you’re for survivors and victims when you released a huge blocklist and accuse survivors and victims of being pedophiles with no proof.

[arkaniist]

I mean??? There are lots of actual content creators that do much worse than what you reblog??

yyyyeeeeaaaahhhhhh true! but listen…

honestly! i don’t care! i don’t care about what people are posting unless it is A REAL ACTUAL CHILD OR PERSON. i don’t care if people are posting gore and rape and incest and underage ships AS LONG AS IT IS CLEARLY ALL FICTION 100% WITH ABSOLUTELY NO LINE BLURRING WHATSOEVER.

because i, unlike a bunch of really immature assholes on this site, know how to block tags for things i super super don’t want to see ever and wow, amazingly, i never see them!

these fucking morons parrot ‘fiction affects reality!!’ like a bunch of broken records and they literally have no idea what that actually means. coming from someone who specializes in that exact concept, in a college level degree type of way, it absolutely does NOT mean what they think it does.

[do-the-striders-ship-stridercest]

the block list is p disgusting. Like thats a list full of good people who are upset and hurt by that. Many of which are surviors. Fandom isn’t a safe space by far, but you are in control of the media you consume and the fact people willingly went looking through all those blogs, became upset, then made a huge list to make people feel like garbage, shippers aren’t the problem. This repeated call out culture is a problem. 

[do-the-striders-ship-stridercest]

yo, my POSITIVITY blog was blacklisted. i dont get antis, like... i was just helping people not hurt them self??? thats a bad thing now???? ahh??????

According to Anti’s yes. They regularly attack users for existing. I know quite a few people on that list and they’ve not done any harm. But they’re constantly getting anon hate or being vagued, or just being massively disrespected for staying in their lane as much as they can while being on a public platform. They have their blogs flagged and tagged, they’re mindful and good people. Just like i’m sure you are, and they’re on that list just because they posted a picture of dirk and dave holding hands in the past year, some have stars for the reason that Dave was aged up (like one of my blogs has one and it’s got 1 fic on it, where dave is 20). Like that's just what they do. I’m sorry your blogs on there. Turn off anon for a few days, keep the positivity going. <3

[do-the-striders-ship-stridercest]

you're gross, you wouldnt support it irl, would you?

I don’t support irl incest. But this is fiction. So it’s not real. 

[do-the-striders-ship-stridercest]

We did boys

3 of my bogs(including this one) are on a massive block list. One is being accused of pedophilia. So time to remind you all that the block list is full of lies and is untrue. Unless you harm a real living minor in real physical life, you aren’t a pedophile, just a shipper who enjoys and creates content. Keep creating.  Enjoy your ships, enjoy what makes you happy as long as it’s safe. 

[do-the-striders-ship-stridercest]

2018

Happy New Years! Enjoy a year of shipping, of positivity, and enjoy content you enjoy! 

[do-the-striders-ship-stridercest]

bro lazily kissing dave awake on a sleepy sunday. 

[do-the-striders-ship-stridercest]

New Years

Dirk and dave stand under fireworks and kiss. Hal in his android body smooches davesprite to calm him from the fireworks

[do-the-striders-ship-stridercest]

It’s almost 2018

here’s a reminder that fiction isn’t reality, and that whatever you ship is valid. You deserve love, and you deserve kindness. I love you all. Have a good new years celebration, and block as you need too. <3

[stridercest-week]

it's a t-shirt ;D

i made this for funsies but i’m definitely going to spend approximately fifteen us dollars on it and now YOU CAN TOO!!

[do-the-striders-ship-stridercest]

Have a good day, all of you those ship things people don’t like. Yall deserve it and I have chihuahuas for each of you

[do-the-striders-ship-stridercest]

Thanksgiving for the striders was filled with Chinese take out after bro burnt the turkey. They are, drank, and laughed into the night eventually passing out on the futon to some hallmark Christmas classic.

They woke up black Friday and lazily smooched each other's hangovers away to go online and get a jump on Christmas over thanksgiving left overs and Gatorade.