#squick

[meo-eiru]

Oh wow I missed your drawings! I'm so glad your updating now I can obsess your new and old ocs.

Does that octo hair twink have a tentacle thingy???👀👀

octo hair twink😭

yes, here's a very quick sketch to show his tentacles

[polyamorousmisanthrope]

Squick

Squick is a noble word. It recognizes and honors your own personal taste while recognizing and honoring that your personal taste does not dictate morality.

I wish we used it more.

[the-bar-sinister]

To give an example of something in fandom that seriously triggered and upset me:

Quite some time ago now in a server for one of my fandoms, there was someone sharing clips of a WIP they were working on. Said WIP was about one of my F/Os. The fic was all about violent noncon leading to character death. The author, who is someone I really like, was chatting about it with some of the other people in the server. They were all teeheeing playfully and talking about it like it was fun, silly, and sexy.

I looked away as soon as I realized what the fic and the discussion were about, but it still made me nauseous and I went to go cry in the shower for a long time. I tried to put it out of my mind, but as you can see it still comes back to mind and makes me upset sometimes.

None of the people in that server were in the wrong. The author had every right to write and share the fic, and everyone else had the right to teehee over it. The fact that it upsets me is my own to deal with; fiction is fiction and no one is obligated to censor their fiction for my personal comfort.

[mx-dragon-faye]

I do admit I find it a bit funny when people give the reason of them being cousins for not shipping Hiccup and Snotlout… in the franchise.

Because in the httyd books, sure, yeah, they’re cousins canonically. But the franchise and the books are quite different for all that they’re both awesome and beloved and the franchise is based on the books, and in the franchise they’re simply never canonically stated to be cousins

I encountered the franchise before I had the chance to read the books and I went so long not knowing they were cousins in the books because they’re not cousins, canonically, in the franchise

I mean ship what you want to, don’t ship what you don’t want to. Whatever you like, you like; and whatever squicks you out, squicks you out. None of my business there what all that happens to be. If we share a like, great; if you like something that squicks me out or vice versa, well, don’t like don’t read is such a lovely thing

[gothiccharmschool]

An aside about the language on TV Tropes: squick is a Very Good Fandom Term that needs to move back into everyday use. For those of you who use "uncomfy", "squick" means pretty much the same thing, but with a layer of "I don't like it, but that's my issue, not anyone else'".

"Squick". Learn it. Use it. It's a useful shorthand, and doesn't have any layers of moral judgement about fiction!

[catsharkjones]

damn, usually i have no problem shipping two male characters regardless of literally anything but i just cant ship chris and adrian like i physically recoil, what's up with that lol idk guess ill unpack it later

[canisvesperus]

Saw a post just now construing the push for a return to the term “squick” as nerds whining about fandom elders being disrespected. Which is a load of revisionism if you’ve been active at all over the past 9-10 years. I don’t care if you think squick is a cringe or ugly word. We tell you to use it because disabled and mentally ill self-advocates are tired of countless people in this post-gamergate era still cheapening the term “trigger”, or at worst using it as a joke.

[hotdoghottakes]

I love that Satan's face just screams "the fuck did this guy say about his sister?"