me trying to read the low-contrast DNI written in a curly aesthetic font on a low quality jpg underneath a gifset from a stim account to make sure i can interact
everytime someone says mouthwashing is a fandom that shouldn't have shipping an angel gets shot
Reminder that it is completely okay to ship anything , even if it won't make any sense in the canon at all *cough cough* TikTok Mouthwashing fandom *cough cough*
this has reduced me to tears
“you can write non-con and dark fics as long as you’re not romanticizing it”
“you can write non-con and dark fics as long as it’s your way of coping with your trauma”
“you can write non-con and dark fics as long as —”
actually, anybody — including you — can write non-con and dark fics, and any other fucked up things, however they want, for whatever reasons.
wanna romanticize the fuck out of your non-con / dead dove do not eat fic? go ahead. don’t let anybody stop you from creating the art you want to create.
wanna write non-con fic even if you were never a victim? go ahead. you don’t have to meet any specific criteria in order to create the art you want to create.
just tag your works properly so that you don’t accidentally expose those who might not want to be exposed to such topics to the topics, and you’re all good.
art does not have to be for everybody.
art has never been strictly about rainbow and sunshine. art can also be about the horror and the macabre.
art can be outright disgusting and messed up, and being disgusting and messed up can be just what makes the art a masterpiece.
say it with me folks.
being an antisemitic jackass to jewish people online will not free palestine! zionist blocklists will not free palestine! circlejerking about killing israelis WILL NOT FREE PALESTINE!
Antis become extremely profic when the topics involve liking fictional villains/Antags. Defending them with their life and saying stuff like "You guys need to separate the character from their actions!" and "It's just fiction! I wouldn't hurt anyone irl!"
But when a Proshipper does the EXACT SAME THING they get harrassed, told to touch grass and even worse things
It just seems so hypocritical....
“ugh why do proshippers get all the cute artstyles, emoji combos, and flags!?!?” because harassment and bullying is ugly. the literal point of being an anti means you are pro censorship. you destroy creativity simply because you dislike it. of course the non-hateful people are going to be more creative and have cuter things because we are free to express ourselves and don’t bring others down for harmless things.
Periodic rent-lowering-gunshots:
Fiction is not reality.
You can enjoy things in fiction that would be awful in the real world. Like playing a murderhobo in a game! In the real world, being or supporting a murderer-thief would be pretty damn awful, while in the game it's just good fun. Same with anything else you choose to do with the pixels on the screen, like kinks that don't affect anyone real, so they're okay in fiction, but would be pretty damn bad in real life.
No one else is responsible for your online experience. They are required not to harass you, but they are not and never will be obligated to not post about ships, kinks, or tropes you dislike just to avoid you seeing them. It's up to you to blacklist words or phrases, block tags, or even block users as needed to avoid seeing content that upsets you.
No one can force you to read anything against your consent. Any content you don't like seeing can be instantly avoided by closing out of the offending post/fic.
You are not owed an online experience free of discomfort.
Nothing that happens in your imagination can ever make you a bad person. Words you write or read about fictional characters will never make you a bad person.
The claim that media consumption influences real-life behavior is intellectually dishonest and serves only to excuse the behavior of real offenders.
Fiction is a safe way to explore horrifying or confusing concepts. Therapists agree that fiction, even (or especially) about taboo topics is a good coping mechanism, especially, but not exclusively, for trauma survivors. Fiction is to adults what play therapy is to children. This doesn't stop being true if the work in question is of a sexual nature.
Sex isn't an inherently worse or better motivation than anything else. A work written to create feelings of arousal isn't dirty, shameful, or in any way less pure than works written to entertain, provoke moral questions, or for other reasons. And worth noting is that multiple purposes can exist in the same story, especially fanfiction.
You aren't entitled to an explanation for why someone reads, writes, or otherwise enjoys certain works, kinks, tropes, ships, etc.
“Antiship is punk!” has the same energy as “being conservative is the new punk!”
Proship is an inherently punk ideology. The production of transgressive and taboo art is an inherently punk thing. You cannot be against the production of weird fiction and be punk because punk is about liberation for the weird and estranged people of society and the right to freedom of expression.