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purity and cancel culture make people think artists who write, draw, sing or make things about subjects that are (rightfully) considered disturbing and socially unacceptable — as well as fans who like fictional things that are (rightfully) considered disturbing and socially unacceptable — are “red flags”, “predators”, “deserving of having their hard drives checked”, etc, when in reality people can like or make fictional things about subjects that are (rightfully) considered disturbing and socially unacceptable without condoning these things in real life.
artists who create (fictional) contents about triggering subjects aren’t automatically “predators who condone these terrible things in real life”. artists who create (fictional) contents about triggering subjects are just artists who create (fictional) contents about triggering subjects.
people who like (fictional) contents about triggering subjects aren’t automatically “predators who condone these terrible things in real life”. people who like (fictional) contents about triggering subjects are just normal people who like (fictional) contents about triggering subjects. for reasons that aren’t nobody’s business but their own.
(as long as they don’t act out these things in real life and hurt real people, they’re normal people like you and me, and 99.99% of people who like fucked up fictional things are normal people who don’t hurt anyone in real life.
if someone watched a fucked up movie and acted out the antagonist’s crimes in real life, then it still meant that this individual was already fucked up and a predator, and they would have done terrible things whether or not they watched a fucked up film; the art itself don’t make people do terrible things.)
art has never been restricted to only rainbow and sunshine and unicorns.
art is also about the depiction of macabre, things that are disgusting, unpleasant, violent and unacceptable. (as long as nobody in real life actually gets hurt.)
you can’t claim to “accept art and artists” and then say “but if you write fics about (X) or if you like this movie then you’re a red flag and are disgusting 🤢”
it’s absolutely okay if you personally hate these types of fictional works that revolve around triggering subjects that are (rightfully) disgusting and socially unacceptable, it’s okay because it just means these types of works are not for you (no one forces you to watch, read or listen to them), but it’s not okay if you start harassing artists who create or people who enjoy art you personally hate, just because you hate them and therefore you believe other people must hate them too or else they’re terrible people.
you are a terrible person if you harass anybody in real life over fictional things that aren’t real.
you are the one who aren’t able to separate fiction from reality.
Profiction/proshipping, at its core, is 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
That's it.
This is what proshipping means
Common misconceptions about proshipping:
Proship means "problematic shipping"
All proshippers shipp something
All proshipper spaces are NSFW
All proshippers cope using proshipping
All proshippers enjoy all tropes
All proshippers are lolisho
To be a proshipper, you need to engage with and enjoy dark media
Proshipping is just a way to cope. People grow out of that
What really is true:
Proshipping always meant "pro—shipping"
Proshipping means being anti harassment
There are plenty SFW spaces for proshippers. Proshipping can not be summarized as simply being just r34
Not all proshippers use it as a way to cope with something. There are people that just believe that censoship over fiction content and harassment over it is unnecessary.
You don't need to like every trope and every ship to be a proshipper. You can like one, you can like two, you can like NONE! you just need to be respectful.
You don't need to be a lolishocon to be a proshipper.
You can be a proshipper and dislike incest/age gape. You are still a proshipper since you don't go to ppl that enjoy those things and starts harrasing them.
Proshipping is a belief that in fandom spaces, you are free to enjoy fiction that you or other ppl made without the fear of being doxed or getting rape/death threats from random strangers. Respect is the base.
It's kinda performative activism as well. They're able to sit back and call others freaks, weirdos and disgusting for enjoying incest in fiction and feel like they're contributing to positive change in the world.
I'll say it once more, you're absolutely allowed to not like blmatsu and be repulsed by it, you have every right to your preferences. But thought crimes are not a real thing. Writing and drawing spicy blmatsu work isn't equivalent to wanting to bang your irl relatives and officiating sibling weddings on the weekend. You're no better or worst of a person for not liking blmatsu. You're just a person with your own preferences, just like blmatsu shippers.
I find the difference in mentality between jap and eng fandom interesting. While americans forbid even the mention of blmatsu, the japanese freely joke about it. Both behaviors have some sort of cultural connotation. This is a good topic for me to ponder
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Hey osomatsu san fandom 👍🏻
Some of y'all are chill but there seems to be a fuck load of people here that're like this. Do better. Don't wish death upon strangers for shipping incestous relationships of fictional brothers that exist only in an anime. you can dislike blmatsu all you want, that perfectly fine and everyone is entitled to their own preferences and opinions. Let's just remember to treat each like people, please?
I find that People who are incapable of separating fiction from reality are more dangerous than people who draw fucked up or horrifying stuff im not even kidding.
Because someone drawing incest porn does not wish death on others for not liking their freak but I've seen it from anti shippers and the "protect little kids" group time and again.
Genuinely it is horrifying to see grown ups or 20+ year olds piling onto a twt or post and telling someone to off themselves over a few drawings or a fic.