âš. â . âš just my main blog to yap about all of my nerdy interests! slay the princess ⢠the mechanisms ⢠portal ⢠the magnus archives ⢠law of talos ⢠murder drones !! MINOR !!
what if you stumble into a forest world wearing a forbidden "princess" tiara
and a dangerous crow boy whose job it is to destroy princess becomes obsessed with you
OKAY woah jesus. I guess it's time for me to be present in the tumblr stp fandom once more!!!!!!!! (partly because whenever someone reblogs my old art I tweak out a little) but yeah! expect some more fanart :D
why do you only accept requests for shiftingquiet ??? ship and let ship idk why you care about proshipping so muxh its fiction
Okay well⌠thatâs kinda rude. I only accept requests for shiftingquiet because I personally only like drawing canon/canon adjacent stuff. Not because I think other STP ships are proships? Just because Iâd rather not interact with proshippers doesnât mean I think any ship besides shiftingquiet is weird, I just donât ship anything else. :P
As for why I donât like proshippers interacting with my blog (which is a whole ass different question) I just think being supportive/neutral about darkshipping is weird. And yes, I do know that just because one uses the proshipper label it doesnât automatically equate to darkshipping, some use it to mean anti-harassment, but I also disagree with that.
Fundamentally I do not agree with the concept of âjust block and move onâ because choosing inaction is still a choice. I think itâs perfectly reasonable to want to bring attention to members of a community that do weird shit so that others can avoid them. Shouldnât that be reason enough? No, it probably wont be satisfactory for you given you felt the need to send this into my requests when I specifically asked for people to not do that. If you want my extended reasoning, itâs below the cut.
If you want to get into the complicated topic of âdoes fiction affect realityâ then I will oblige, and I do think itâs a little more nuanced than people give it credit for, but ultimately I come to the same conclusion there too.
I will ask you one thing. Do you get sad when a character you like dies? Do you feel happy when your favorite character accomplishes something? Is that not fiction affecting reality in some way? Itâs not a 1 to 1 transfer, but obviously there is correlation. Itâs silly to pretend there isnât.
Fiction doesnât exist in a vacuumâall art is politicalâand all fictional content by extension is influenced by real world existence and the experiences of people who write and consume it. People use fiction to get across their opinions, to bring attention to real issues, to create allegories correlating to irl things! If fiction didnât affect reality in any way, propaganda would not work, and the advertising industry wouldnât exist.
If one is attracted to that kind of stuff in fiction what makes it different than being attracted to the actual thing? Itâs not ârealâ per se, but they are still depictions of certain socially unacceptable things that are romanticized. Which I find very⌠strange.
Saying itâs different is like saying something akin to âIâm not jerking off to feet, Iâm jerking off to a DRAWING of feet! Itâs just a drawing. I donât have a foot fetish.â So what makes, say, the fetishization fictional incest different?
Now onto the âcensorshipâ topic before someone inevitably asks me about that, too. Iâm not against portraying incest/pedophillia in fiction as long as it is actually critiqued properly, and with tact. Most darkship content is not doing that. For example people usually bring up the book lolita, but that book was criticizing pedophilla, and portraying it as a wrong thing, it was not an endorsement of it!
And where is all this objection to censorship when it comes to actual authors and journalists being censored? Why do proshippers only care about people who rightfully find their 1k word one-shot on Ao3 about loli smut weird? Why donât they bring that same energy to real world book banning? Censorship is a tactic used by people in places of power and by governments. A random ass teenager on the internet isn't infringing upon your rights to free speech by blocking and saying that theyâre uncomfortable with darkshipping.
If we can say that media can be racist/homophobic/transphobic/ableist (E.g. depictions of harmful caricatures, stereotyping, tropes like the disposable black girlfriend, or having the gay character always die first, or infantilizing an autistic character.) and that it is a BAD thing, whatâs the difference when it comes to romanticized portrayals of incest/pedophilia? Why is it when it comes to that topic now its âship and let ship!â suddenly?
Is it because you actually care about anti-censorship, the nuanced behind fiction affecting reality, and creating âcomplexâ relationships dynamics, or do you just want an excuse to be a weirdo under the guise of moral superiority?
Now heres were I might come off as a bit of an asshole, but you cannot be serious coming to MY blog and asking why I want to curate MY content a specific way? Really? There are like a bajillion other people you can interact with.
I donât like engaging in this stupid ass tired discourseâIâm working on more important things right now since Iâm attending college in like a month and I have better things to do than argue about whether proshipping or antishipping is the most bestest.
If you're gonna make weird content just fucking own it and donât be a pussy by pretending youâre doing it for some grander purpose. Also maybe donât disrespect peoples boundaries by sending bullshit like this in their asks when itâs specifically stated that I donât like interacting with proshippers.
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