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@persephassax
We do pinned posts now? I guess so.
Hello, I am Seph. I’m preparing to be a fandom old any day now. I use they/them pronouns.
I’m current lost in comic book land, so expect lots of Batman and DCU related nonsense.
Feel free to get in touch, I’m generally friendly, if not exceptionally social.
Uh- are you aware of the meaning of proship?
Proship has never meant anything except a combination of three ideas:
Ship and let ship (your ships don't harm me and vice-versa) and YKINMK (your kink is not my kink, and that's okay; my kink stories don't harm you and vice-versa)
Harassment over fiction is not acceptable
Censorship of fiction is not acceptable either
Any other definitions are made by antis, not proshippers, and are an attempt at revisionism to justify harassment based on false claims.
WAIT that’s what that means?? 😭😭
everyone always has a dni for proshippers I thought it was something freaky or fucked up 😭😭
Yeah. Antis like to claim that the "pro" means "problematic", but nope. "Pro" (for) is simply the opposite of "anti" (against), and all that "proship" really means is "Let everyone ship what they want, everyone mind their own business".
A healthy reminder.
Louder 📣📣 for those in the back
“Pro” means we’re in favor of shipping; proship literally means we’re in favor of shipping! Can we please get back to this definition.
Anyone who tells you anything different is looking for trouble.
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My problematic ship is media literacy/the general public and media literacy tops
#original OP is a liar i’m p sure proship has always been about shipping minors with adults and the shippers always pull this rhetoric to#defend it#otherwise it’s just called ‘shipping’ but pedos made up the whole ‘pro ship: we ship *anything* ****including minors and adults! so.#so i’m always wary of self defined ‘proshippers’#their whole thing was predicated on inflammatory internet harassment in retaliation to other shippers being disgusted at their behavior
Incorrect. We had shippers and then people started calling themselves "anti-shippers", and pro-ship and anti-anti arose to mean "not an anti-shipper". That's all it's ever meant. It means not being an anti-shipper. Anti-shippers are trying to redefine it as meaning "problematic shipper" in order to try to gain rhetorical high ground by trying to give the impression that anyone who's not an anti-shipper is specifically writing underage rape porn and selling it to child abusers or something, but that has never been the case.
Some proshippers write about underage ships. Some write about gay ships. Some write the kind of generic romance that you'll find in an average romcom, with one character being the other's boss. Some write ships that not even the most obsessive puritan antis could find a firm moral reason to object to. Some, like me, don't write about sex at all and tend not to write about romantic relationships very much either, but firmly hold the stance that others should be allowed to write those things if they want.
Do you despise underage sex scenes? Does the very concept of them make you throw up in your mouth a little? Me too! I find them fucking disgusting! You know what I do about it?
I... don't read them. I certainly don't participate in hate campaigns to threaten, doxx or suicide bait random authors for writing stuff I don't like. That doesn't achieve anything. That doesn't protect any children. All it is is an excuse to bully someone and tell yourself that it's okay to feel righteous and powerful about it because people Deserve It if they write the fictional story wrong.
God I remember watching Voltron and Star Wars kick off into new depths of what being an anti meant.
We had shippers and gen fans and antis. Anti this ship, or anti that ship. And then somewhere things changed - I know it from Voltron but who knows, maybe someone else got there first - but ship wars went from being “your ship sucks” to “your ship involves someone two years younger so the age difference means it’s pedophilia”. “One character said the other is like a brother to him so your ship is incest.” Or my favorite from my old fandom, “that character is possessing someone so your ship is necrophilia AND noncon”.
It always involved rewriting definitions so that there was a reason the anti’s ship was pure and the ship they hated was morally wrong.
I remember years of adult antis showing younger fans what they considered “bad” material so the kids could report it. Adults deliberately showing kids explicit art or fic to encourage kids to search it out and try and get it deleted. I can go grab receipts, it’s not hard because it happened so much.
Anti antis became a part of the ecosystem to push back on harassment campaigns and doxxing and all the other toxic nonsense that came from the ship wars. Proshippers were the group that said “I won’t stand for censorship” and usually tried not to get into the fighting the way anti antis did.
It never stood for problematic.
Unless you count pushing back on thought crime and censorship to be a problem, in which case we have a very different problem to discuss.
if you were never going to give this series a fair shot because of the assumptions you made on it before it came out, I bet the news of DC firing GFM and cancelling Red Hood 2025 is wonderful and worth celebrating to you, or whatever.
but I do think we really ought to carefully consider the implications that DC is all about using iconography of killing fascists in their biggest movie of the year and how that is unequivocally a good thing, but the moment someone employed by them is mildly happy a fascist is dead, they will immediately get fired. all the while, Tom King, an honest to god war criminal, stays gainfully employed. ultimately any political stance DC puts on a show about that is just that, a show, when they've made it clear exactly what type of people they're willing to employ and what ones get fired for stepping out of line.
DC clearly wanted the imagery and ""vibes"" of giving Jason Todd a dark, mature, political storyline, but clearly could not fathom the idea that when hiring someone who writes those kinds of stories, they tend to actually hold the political beliefs they're putting in your books, and not just dancing around a performative neo-liberal stance that lacks any substance aside from lukewarm feel-good moments. they hired GFM for the exact thing they fired her for- the political beliefs and envelope-pushing content she's known for that would've suited Jason well, if she had a chance to go where she was going to go with the story. but hey, I'm sure the next neo-liberal Scott Lobdell knockoff who gets to write Jason will be so much better and won't at all play into DC's obvious trend of victim blaming Jason.
and truly, good luck for Jason *or* Helena to get any significant appearances for a *while* until DC feels enough time has passed and they've brushed it far enough under the rug. even if this story was bad, they were at least *getting* a story and now they're going to get thrown right back into the pile of background Batfamily characters to fill out a roster and never have their personal stories explored or told. and they especially won't be told by writers bold enough to not soften either of these characters morals to make them more palatable to a wider audience and the company selling them. (and fwiw: I actually read issue one. it was fine. the story was interesting and the character work was not egregious.)
you can dislike GFM for whatever personal reasons you have, but if you think DC firing a trans woman the moment she says something they don't like about the politics she made it clear she stood on from the get-go is a *good thing* because now your favorite *fictional characters* are safe from what could've been a medicore run, I honest to god think you're missing the bigger picture in all this. because this is DC showing exactly where they stand as a company and how little they'll back the supposed progressive stories they're telling.
Just thinking about having a coterie of villains
RED HOOD #1 ON WEDNESDAY
Reading some nightwing (Tom Taylor run and now switching over to the Watters run, very into this Ligottian puppet thing he has going on) and I can’t believe that no one has wtitten any serious DickBabs with trans Dick Grayson.
They always draw Nightwing like he’s either the greatest tucker of all time, or like he actually doesn’t have a dick.
Where’s my slightly-closer-to-canon trans!Nightwing content?
Just finally getting into The Question — All Along the Watchtower and YES MY BOY TED KORD
I hope he drives Renee up the fucking wall. I hope they have a beautiful friendship based on irritation and grudging respect
David Dastmalchian as Jack Delroy in Late Night with the Devil 01/??
i used to think the brain was the most important part of the body. then I thought, look who’s telling me that…
In the human body, there are SEVEN WOEFUL PRINCES that suffer under the harsh lash of REALITY-CONQUERING TYRANT CEREBELLUM. Their names are thus:
ARTERY-AND-VEIN MENDICANT: The prince who sits at the center of an endless ocean of blood, stirring the systolic and diastolic tides with his jade-lacquered oar. It is said that in ancient times, he sat the throne of selfdom, but was usurped. It wouldn’t be very mendicantly of him to give in to a wicked urge for vengeance and retribution, but even the greatest saints can have slight flaws in their character.
BRAZEN LIVER CHAMPION: Only the strongest may survive in the terrifying princedom of the BRAZEN LIVER CHAMPION, a behemoth warrior clad head-to-toe in superheavy membraneous armor. He seeks to build up an army of deadly toxins and warrior-cells with which to overthrow the reign of REALITY-CONQUERING TYRANT CEREBELLUM, wresting the throne away for himself.
CANDLEMAKER: She who keeps the lipids of the body in her magical jar, and fashions fat into candles that burn with all the energy stored within it. She keeps no royal domain, but has declared the Cellular Republic of the Tissues, a neutral ground of functional anarchy where princeless organelles and exiled corpuscles may make their homes. Still, she schemes for the throne of selfhood, for she dreams of transforming the body into pure energy in an instant of divine ignition.
DEVILISH APPENDIX LORD: Of the SEVEN WOEFUL PRINCES, the DEVILISH APPENDIX LORD is the most woeful by far. They exist as nullity, a collection of emergent processes of the void that have concatenated into a capacity for experiencing reality. Every day, the DEVILISH APPENDIX LORD must choose between continuing the endless torments of existence, or returning to their kingdoms of nothingness by killing the body whole. How long can such patience last?
GODFUCK LIBIDO: This prince is a wild beast among nobles, in the sense that it is literally a big fuck-off bear with magic powers. It governs the junk, and all the dumb animal impulses that emanate from within. GODFUCK LIBIDO has no plan for what it’d do if it won the throne of selfhood, because bears are not capable of that kind of long-term thinking.
KALEIDOSCOPIC PINEAL DRACULA: The vampire princess reigns from a petrified cathedral within the very flesh of the REALITY-CONQUERING TYRANT, holding her dominion against the tyrant’s absolute rule by the power of her three enchanted eyes. Within the bounds of her demesne, she keeps a ruthless court of scheming neurotransmitters, hormone functionaries, and the tyrant’s own emissaries. She would take no throne for herself, but rather push the body onward to full revolution, allowing a transcendent evolution towards the end of human entelechy through the harmonious alignment of all organs and tissues. But then again, she is a dracula, so, take that last part with a bit of salt.
LOVELY LADY FEMUR: This skeleton empress commands all manner of necromancy, reigning from an ivory tower that binds the human body to the dirt of its mortality. If she were to the steal the throne of selfdom from the REALITY-CONQUERING TYRANT, her magical power would tip the balance of power from flesh to bone, which…probably is better we don’t think about.
an incomplete collection of tweets i consider to be short poems
i have some too
posts to cry to
I truly hate the word "unalive." There are so many other euphemisms that fictional Italian mobsters worked so hard to provide you with and you just ignore them.
beautiful compilation from @orc-sign-language
"Joined the great majority" is a good one that I practically never hear.
"Approaching room temperature" is a personal favorite from the medical field.
English is a beautiful weird language. We can do so much better than simple constructed antonyms for sensitive topics
Sometimes I like to live on the edge, as a semi-closeted trans person, and show up to my office job without shaving the morning-of, then I get to spend the rest of the day worrying that people are staring at my chin/cheeks with suspicion!
Don't skip the final step! Do a search on your new character name to make sure it's not an egregiously offensive slur in some real human language.
sex is a natural part of a lot of peoples lives and it is realistic to portray it in media just because of that. it does not need to be meaningful to the story or serve a purpose anymore than brushing your teeth or eating a meal does. we still include those things because it's just something human beings do. it's a part of our everyday lives. purity culture should have no part in the creation of art. it is a form of censorship.
I know this is in response to purity wank nonsense, but just because I do also actually believe in protecting the sanctity of “sexy for sexiness’ sake” and/or “weird pervy shit” — *gratuitous* sex is when we don’t actually learn anything about the characters from bearing witness to their intimacy. Just like I don’t want to watch someone eat in a movie unless there is something to be understood about the character, or the setting, or the emotions, or the story from watching the character eat.
This does not mean that gratuity cannot also be a point in-and-of itself; a movie which explicitly lingers on mundane actions (peeing, brushing your teeth, eating, taking a dump, showering, frying eggs for breakfast, dipping your toast into the egg yolks, putting on your shoes, saying goodbye to your partner, riding the bus to work, order a sandwich at a deli, staring at the scantily clad underwear model on the big billboard outside your office window, meeting up with your partner on the lunch break to have a quickie in the single person, accessible bathroom in the lobby, including disposing of the condom, wiping down people’s thighs, washing your hands, tying your tie back up again, checking your watch to make sure you leave the bathroom and appropriate amount of time after your spouse, riding the elevator back up to the 5th floor where your office is located, etc etc etc) should, in the case of many people, as OP says above, include their sexual activities in addition to the other unremarkable tasks they undertake and complete.
And sometimes, you just want to show a really hot person in a sexually provocative context for the viewing pleasure of the audience. And that’s okay, too!
I can't believe Stargate Atlantis never had Zelenka and Hermiod together. The two most foul mouth characters in the franchise, constantly swearing up a storm in their native languages. I can just imagine the two of them dealing with Rodney over the radio and they just start muttering.
Also, I want to know what Hermiod did that the rest of the Asgards were like: look, I know we're fighting for our lives against the replicators and are on the brink of extinction, but we need you to babysit the humans while they learn how to fly their own spaceship.
im only saying this once
the only acceptable jobs for spider-man
broke high schooler
broke college student
freelance photographer
high school teacher
unpaid intern
pizza delivery guy
research assistant for doomed scientific project
guy who stands on street and spins sign for quiznos
being spider-man
and thats IT i dont want any of this “hes a genius tech ceo making millions” SHIT. Spider-man is BROKE and he missed rent this month and he has a tiny apartment and thats how its MEANT TO BE. he doesnt make money because he is our Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-man and not fucking Tony Stark.
how about dog walker while in spiderman costume
you. you get it
im imagining “being spider-man” as his full-time gig and i just
he has a patreon. the description is just the words “I’m Spider-Man” and all he ever posts is specifically-requested selfies from people who want to be sure its really him. pinned to the top of the page is a picture from the top of the empire state building (not the observation deck, the real top) of his spider-gloved hand holding a bagel that is on fire, with 34th street in the background
Someday I’ll understand why people care about what is or isn’t canon. But today isn’t that day. Tomorrow probably isn’t either. Next week isn’t looking too good. But someday, probably…. Maybe.
