24, she/her. I'm just here for a good time, hyperfixate on whatever my currect interest is :) or look at anime food. currently a big pokemon submas simp and working on an undertale fic (on hiatus) also I do doctor who occasionally and sailor moon (тока избранные поймут шо тут накалякано-намалякано гыгы)
based this off my trainwreckshipping au but with the twins swapped. to be honest, i was just planning on making quick comedic snippets and i accidentally made this entire thing. this is the final part, thank you for reading...
ingo inconvenience 1 here
ingo inconvenience 2 here
ingo inconvenience 3 here
ingo inconvenience 4 here
i will post the panels from the first two images later... without them blocking it.
my tumblr mutuals will take characters from media that is not very good & construct such rich & intricate inner worlds for them in their posts that i will go wow that sounds so compelling let me go check this out….& then the canon character will be like. relatively boring with very little interiority. but that’s okay because sometimes the real character is the one my tumblr mutuals hallucinated along the way….
was anybody going to tell me there's a brand new stop motion my melody and kuromi netflix anime and it's really freaking good or was i going to have to find out by myself
was anybody going to tell me there's a brand new stop motion my melody and kuromi netflix anime and it's really freaking good or was i going to have to find out by myself
was anybody going to tell me there's a brand new stop motion my melody and kuromi netflix anime and it's really freaking good or was i going to have to find out by myself
I have a bone to pick with you, submas fandom. As a blankshipper, as a nsfw/kink artist, and as a fellow human being.
I will preface that this might be kind of poor timing on my part, but this draft has been sitting in my docs for about two weeks and if things are up in flames I may as well say my piece as well. This has nothing to do with the dumpster fire that is happening in the corner of this fandom right now. I won’t get into detail about my feelings on that, except that I’m very mad about it :)
I also do not plan on entertaining bullshit; if you message or reply to me in bad faith, I will not respond. If you and I are not on the same page of “fictional depictions of dark and taboo subjects should be allowed to exist in the world” then you will not like what I have to say, and I invite you to block me right now, for both our sakes.
This is a vent, but it is also addressed to the people in this fandom who consider themselves neutral or anti-harrassment, because y’all are the ones who might actually listen. I would be thankful if you are able to read this through to the end.
I’m frustrated with some of you. I’ve tried to temper my frustration while editing this because I think a lot of it is just obliviousness, but I apologize in advance if my frustration comes through in how I write this.
To be blunt, as someone who is still fairly new to submas fandom, I am disheartened and kind of disgusted with how normalized and insidious the contempt towards blankshippers is within the submas fandom. Whether you like it or not, blankshippers ARE part of submas fandom. Blankshippers, particularly in Eastern fandoms, continue to help build and maintain the fandom. We draw art, we write fic, and yes, sometimes we even create works that have nothing to do with shipping. I think to deny that, whether you personally like the ship or not, is ignorant.
And yet, English-speaking submas fandom has normalized bullying people over a ship and over kink content. The obsessive stalking and harassment that has been on full display the last few months is the most obvious example, but I think it’s easy for most people to point at these more extreme instances and say “This is not what we stand for; we do not condone this; this is Bad Behaviour.”
It’s the quieter aspects of it that feel largely unaddressed. It’s the words that jump out at you during an average scroll through the submas tag on tumblr, or that you might see from someone you just recently followed on twitter. It’s a death-by-a-thousand-cuts situation; it’s not the sole action of one person, but the accumulated small actions of many.
It’s the sort of thing that keeps me from pressing the follow button, even if I like the work someone posts. It’s the sort of thing that makes me scroll past a piece of art I like without making a comment, even though I really would like to. I don’t even bother entertaining the idea of signing up for group events or projects in the EN space, because I’ve seen them fall apart over shipcourse time and time again. I have to consciously weigh if it’s worth the risk of receiving a scathing reply to my earnest compliment. I have to decide if it's worth following someone whose art I enjoy, but might end up catching strays in their casual posts and comments. I have to decide if my very presence might be offensive to every new person I might want to quietly follow. I have to decide if I want to bear the burden of knowing that commenting on someone’s work might get them in trouble.
It’s the casual “kill blankshippers” in twitter replies that goes uncontested. It’s the obnoxious “Not blankshipping! Don’t you dare get it twisted!” disclaimers on selfcest art (as if blankshippers aren’t aware of selfcest shipping from the JP side of fandom? We know how to tell the twins apart — so who is that disclaimer really for?). It’s tagging fics on ao3 with “blankshippers DNI” in an attempt to exclude us from even interacting with gen/platonic works. It’s casually calling the ship “gross”, or insisting that you “don’t approve of it” as an unnecessary side note to your criticism of harassment campaigns.
(And I have to ask; do you still enjoy art by popular Japanese shippers? Do you make an exception for people who have reached a certain threshold of skill, who have a style you like, who might feel more distanced due to a language barrier? If so, why is that, I wonder?)
It’s insidious and moreover, it’s isolating. This fandom treats us like we’re a freakish spectacle, or like we’re crazed sexual deviants who are trying to insert our ship into every piece of fanart we come across. We are treated like one ship we enjoy defines our entire personalities. We are treated like everything we create – shippy or not — is tainted.
And yes, some blankshippers might be obnoxious because every fandom has obnoxious people. You can block those people. I block those people. But most of us are just regular human beings with jobs and hobbies who enjoy multiple interpretations of the twins and are just as happy enjoying platonic art and fic of them as we are enjoying shippy art of them.
Blankshippers can do everything “right” — make a separate account for shipping content, tag appropriately, avoid mentioning the ship in non-shipper spaces — and we are still treated with contempt casually and out in the open, and expected to just take it without being upset or angry about it.
Well, I am angry. It’s exhausting, and frankly it’s fucked up that it’s gotten to a point where treating half of the fandom as undesirables is seen as normal. (It was illuminating, by the way, to hear someone outside of submas fandom describe the treatment of blankshipping as "one of the most hostile they'd come across in a fandom space" when I vaguely brought up the ship, but that's for another post.) Whether you mean to or not, the widespread attitude towards blankshippers in this fandom divides us and isolates us from each other, and we spend more time spinning our wheels on this stupid, meaningless shipcourse instead of creating things and inspiring each other.
The consequences of alienating a subset of creatives in your fandom may not be immediately obvious, but it has already created a hostile environment for everyone — not just the blankshippers, but for everyone. The surveillance, the hyper-vigilance, the accusations; no one benefits from this. I saw it in the fandom I was previously in, and it created an incredibly high turnover rate; people would average about three months before moving on. I lasted about a year but I eventually got sick of it, too. I think that’s the kind of fandom we are trending towards if this kind of behaviour continues.
I also want to emphasize that this is not an issue of establishing boundaries to me. I think it’s your god-given right to block any and all blankshippers you come across if you don’t want to risk ever seeing it on your feed. I think it’s absolutely fair to ask people not to tag your art with a ship name if it wasn’t created with that intent. I think if a blankshipper oversteps your boundaries, you have every right to correct them or block them. Hell, if you want to be mean in a private discord or group chat, I don’t fucking care, as long as I don’t have to see it.
The casual flippance and disgust towards shippers is unnecessary, and it doesn’t go unnoticed. Is it that hard to stand in defence of someone being treated unfairly without passing a moral judgement on their shipping preferences? Are you defending blankshippers at all, or just the people being mistaken for them?
It sucked when a bunch of non-shippers were accused of being blankshippers on tumblr, right? It sucks when people pester you with questions about whether you’re a shipper when you’re clearly not, with the insinuation that that’s a bad thing, that that makes you a bad person. In other words, it kinda sucks to be a blankshipper, right?
I have very little sympathy if you’re doing or saying these things performatively, or if you’re worried about your internet clout; look at the way you are actually talking about people and treating people. At the end of the day, you can make whatever comments you want in your space, but I think you should be aware that we can and do see them, and you should be aware of the effect it has.
If you truly consider yourself neutral and anti-harassment, then I sincerely ask for you to just consider what it might be like to be a blankshipper in this fandom. I ask you to defend us from unjustified harassment, not in spite of our ship, but because our ship should be allowed to exist; I ask you to defend us because we are people in the same community, loving the same characters.
And to the people in this fandom that do speak out on our behalf, when a lot of us feel as though we can’t without the risk of attracting more negative attention, please know that we appreciate you so much, even if you’ve never seen us say it publicly. I can assure you that your kindness and understanding also doesn’t go unnoticed.
I love blankshipping fandom. The majority of people rallying behind this ship have been nothing but kind and welcoming, passionate and eager to share art and fic and fandom history with a newbie like me. I do truly think this is the most welcomed I’ve felt to a fandom in a while. But they’re also exhausted and wary, because they’ve been burned so many fucking times. There’s a lot of blankshippers that want to be able to interact with more of the fandom without the scrutiny and the judgement, but the fandom has largely offered hostility in return.
I love blankshipping fandom, but I don’t know that I can say I love submas fandom with the same confidence.
i'll be real. i've been to many fandoms before. i'ma bit of a veteran in that regard. i've been to small fandoms for obscure niche stuff, as well as big fandoms with horrible reputations that precedes them. i've been to fandoms that are full of nsfw content and 'problematic' shipping, as well as those that have little to none. i've seen people who like those ships and those who don't. i've seen people joke about 'people ship siblings can you imagine?' and those who genuinely found it gross
submas fandom is the only fandom i've ever seen that is so casually agressive and hostile to their 'weird shippers'. the amount of 'blankshippers kys pls <3' and 'i will kill all of you haha' and 'do not touch my post with a ten foot pole' tags on ao3 and dnis on tumblr make me, a non-shipper, die inside every time i see them to this day. i've been in the submas fandom for over three years. and this is something i will never get used to.
it's what made me stop interacting with the fandom at all, for the sake of not tainting my love for the characters with stupidity of the western side of the fandom and their weird puritanism and pearl clutching. it's what made me stop reading fics on ao3 - every time i'd go browsing for something, i'd see these casually agresssive tags at least five times each session, and my day is ruined. it's what makes browsing the tumblr tag a gamble each day - will everything be clear today, or will i see another casual 'kys' and 'you are disgusting' this morning under an art? Or maybe today there will be another 'callout post' that smugly declares how this one popular submas artist is, oh the horror, making blankship art on their account they keep separate from their main and tagging it properly for the people who don't want to see that stuff
i don't ship it, but every time i see this attitude towards people who mind their own business and tag everything correctly and try their best to keep their shippy stuff away from the casual fandom, i'm terrified that so many people seem to think that this is not only okay, but is moraly justified and they're doing the right thing when they declare how they think the shippers are subhuman and treat them like they have the plague.
the sumbas fandom is making me question humanity and this is not what i want when i browse art for my comfort characters that help me get through the hard times. as do many people i've interacted with throughout my time here who don't interact with the fandom for the same reason - it feels like there's a constant witch hunt going on somewhere in the background. like there's constantly someone breathing down your neck, ready to pounce the moment there's even suspicion you're a blankshipper, or, the HORROR, are simply neutral. because the submas fandom is the only place people will treat you like a subhuman even if you are neutral towards a topic that no one who's not chronically online cares about. like you're constantly on thin ice even if you simply refuse to be hostile towards the 'weird shippers' as well
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