LET'S TALK ABOUT "IS THIS A SHIP" COMMENTS
imagine the situation: there's a comic, where two sibling characters interact with each other, talking about the weather, whatever. you read this little comic, there's a fun interaction and a joke, and you like the thing
you decide to check comments, and the first one you see is: "IS THIS A SHIP?? IS THIS INCEST??"
I used to hate those. it's hard for me not to get annoyed by them, especially when there's NOTHING to suggest that there's anything problematic going on in the comic
like DUDE WHAT MADE YOU THINK THIS WAY? WHAT'S GOING ON IN YOUR LIFE/MIND THAT A BASIC INTERACTION BETWEEN TWO CHARACTERS IS ALREADY A SHIP MARKER FOR YOU???
then a friend of mine told me that, you know, there's actually A LOT OF ACTUAL SHIP STUFF with these characters. you just happen to hang out on a normal side of the internet (inside your own bubble, if you will) and you don't see any of this crap, so you don't even think about it. but other peps, they do often run into such stuff, and they just ran out of strength to dig into each individual author to see if they're up for problematic shit or not, so they crave for simple safe markers such as "not a ship" disclaimer (let's not think about how these disclaimers themselves can be abused to mislead people, that's a different story)
maybe there is a part of truth, I dunno, maybe some of there people really are just that........ "clueless". I guess I now have a better understanding of this type of comments much better now, but they're still annoying. I am sorry for peeps but not enough to put "not a ship" disclaimer in my own comics, because I promote the idea of using your brain to ANALYZE stuff and think for yourself if it's a ship or not
whatever, why am I even talking about this? definitely not because I am about to drop on you 6 pages of Proto and Poppy, why would you think that