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Antis when a fanfic has a major character death, calling the police to report a murder
I find it extremely funny when somebody tags/captions their art with "proshitters DNI" and then they're like "um reblogs are better than likes you guys uwu how come my post only has 8 notes"
Take a wild fucking guess you absolute twit
I just stumbled on a change.org petition to make proshipping illegal. Nothing totalitarian about that. /s
I understand the sentiment that shipping-neutral people have of "shipping discourse is meaningless outside of the internet" because to a degree they're right, but 1) that doesn't mean it isn't an issue worth talking about, and 2) antis are still more than happy to ruin you by doxxing you, encouraging you to self harm or commit suicide, calling up your place of work to accuse you of possessing CSEM, sending you triggering content, and using slurs and hateful language, because they somehow think it's justified to do all that over some drawings and/or fanfics they think are yucky. And all that isn't even taking into account how badly they wanna censor everything, how they're essentially the brand new "comics and video games are turning the children into violent murderers."
So while it's true that to the average person doesn't give a fuck about shipping discourse, and that not everybody has to fall neatly onto one side or the other, it's not the discourse itself that worries me. I think I speak for a lot of pro-shippers when I say that the actual concern we have is the harassment that antis love to participate in so much. The reason I say that being an anti is synonymous with being pro-harassment is because you can't really separate the two. You might be an anti that chooses not to harass anyone, but you still sit at the anti-shipping table with people who condone and often endorse harassment. Antis who say "oh but I don't agree with the harassment" don't do anything more proactive than just ignoring the harassment when it happens, so it runs absolutely rampant in anti-shipping circles and has abso-fucking-lutely become the expectation and the standard for how antis interact with pro-shippers (and shipping-neutral people as well).
It's been said before, but if you find yourself thinking "these ships with upsetting elements to them make me uncomfortable, but I know that they're not real and the people who ship them aren't doing so because it reflects the kinds of things they want to happen in real life, and being a hateful piece of shit to them is wrong" you are very likely not an anti but shipping-neutral and that's ok (although antis typically harbor a lot of animosity towards shipping-neutral people as well so welcome to the club). If you're thinking "I would never personally go harass someone over their disgusting yucky problematic ships, but it's ok if other people do because clearly those freaks deserve it", maybe consider fucking off.
I think it's pretty telling that nine times out of ten proshippers are the ones that are like "be safe on the internet! Don't give your personal information out! Block and filter people and/or things you don't want to see on your dashboard! It's ok to not like things just don't be a dick about it! Don't send anon hate! Don't tell people to kill themselves!" whereas antis are like "It is mandatory to have a public page that lists every detail about yourself. I don't know what blocking or filtering means and I refuse to find out. If you like reading murder mystery novels it means you think murder is good and you're probably a murderer. Die. Kys. I'm going to skin you alive and bathe in your blood."
But we're the scary evil predators. Sure.
@fuck-proshippers