#proshipper discourse

[nanasketchdump]

Begging anyone in fandom spaces (especially people who already have anxiety) who find themselves obsessing over ages of characters and the morality of ships to an intense degree to please look into purity/morality OCD and the thought policing involved in OCD because if you aren't careful it will get worse.

Engaging in fandom in that kind of way and critiquing every passing thought or feeling you or others may have if you have anxiety or OCD is incredibly harmful and I cannot emphasize this enough

[eqho]

I think one of the reasons so many antis hate on incest, pedophilia, noncon, etc in fiction but not murder or gore is really because of how desensitized we all are to it. like, you never see people going out of their way to harass some author for making a book that is even remotely sexual or romantic and pertaining to the topic of murder. but the second it's pedophilia or something taboo, it's an issue. it feels like for them it's not just fear of the unknown, but how desensitized they are. pedophilia, rape, etc are rarely discussed online and in real life. people make murder jokes, watch movies with murder (and variants), see murder on the news, etc. but no one is used to incest or stuff similar. discussing such taboo topics, whether it's in real life or fiction, is frowned upon and people avoid these discussions because they make them uncomfortable. why? not really sure.

also, calling them antis feels wrong bc it makes it sound like a whole like.. war we got going on. they're not 'antis' and I feel like proshipper is a term to describe a normal user who doesn't harass people over such miniscule things like fiction. you're not an 'anti,' you're a weirdo that harasses people online over fiction. stop giving yourself some label like you have any significance or superiority in this community. though, at this point, it seems Iike antis ARE apart of this community. we don't even call them anti proship, they're just called antis and we all know what they mean. they have tags, and frequently argue and debate with us. I don't even think we'd be called what we're called if antis didn't exist. "darkshipper" a normal person who just ships things they like. like why do we have these names. I still use them but yk.

[nendo-town]

Ok so i might be worlds #1 dumb bitch because i kept seeing posts that are like “proshippers are bad“ and I was like “BUT I LIKE SHIPS AND I’M A MULTISHIPPER“ and then i was like “OH NO AM I BAD??” so i looked it up and

oml i feel so stupid??? no i am not a proshipper. i hate that i have to say that. Anyway, just for the record:

I AM NOT NOR DO I SUPPORT PROSHIPPERS!!! PEDOPHILIA WILL NOT BE TOLERATED ON THIS PAGE!!! PROSHIPPERS WILL BE BLOCKED!!!

this has been a dumb bitch psa

-Clay :3

[eqho]

"shipping incest is bad bc irl incest is bad cuz ummm ur kids become disabled!!"

big red buzzer

incest irl and online is ok as long as it's consensual. btw ur one word away from being a eugenicist if u think certain people should not be allowed to have kids just bc the kids will become disabled

[too-late-to-change-the-name-now]

all this proshipper vs antishipper discourse is popping up on my page and annoying me.

i don't care what you ship or how you ship it, as long as

you're not using to justify crimes against irl people/ there are no irl crimes (this is for both sides, some antis do the 'accuse of what you're guilty of' thing and most proshippers don't do this stuff)

no irl people who said they didn't want it are shipped, that is sexual harassment, them being on the internet (with a presence or not) does not justify that

if someone, antishipper or proshipper, says that they don't want to see certain stuff, don't try to send it to them, that's also sexual harassment

No sexual harassment in general

Aro and Ace identities are respected like other queer identities are

I feel like all of this is kind of obvious already done stuff, but some of the stuff I've seen made me question that.

even though i disagree with a lot of proshippers, I don't harass them. ever. i just move on and maybe block them if it keeps appearing in my page.