#sals

[sals-fluttershy]

I hope the proshipper reading this has a nice day!

#proship positivity #sals #pro shipping #pro ship #anti anti #pro fic #pro fiction #proshipper #profic #minors dni

[littlemelonberry]

you're not a bad person if you want to make some kind of art inspired by someone else's vent piece. you aren't a bad person if someone else's art, regardless of that art's origin, moves you to create.

even if that inspired art isn't under the same context. even if it's for fun, or for kink, or for whatever "silly" or "lighthearted" or "disrespectful" reason it is created.

your obligations to the original creator stop at plagiarism and ensuring your work is properly tagged.

#proship #profic #sals #proship safe #rq safe #transid safe #<- not about those last two but i am safe space ^.^

[barbwritesstuff]

It's time for Something a Little Super!

Something a Little Super is a 20,000 word interactive story about adopting and raising a child with super powers. Your choices will shape them into the person they'll become (hero, villain, or something else...)

Featuring:

Multiple endings.

An immersive experience with music, images, and sound effects.

Gender selectable characters.

Cute, tragic, and bittersweet moments.

A variety of different choices.

Scroll forward and back at any time.

Option to skip already read passages.

A save feature with multiple save slots.

Super powered shenanigans.

I hope you like it. 💙

Warning: This game contains mature language.

#something a little super #interactive fiction #superheroes #ren'py #free #SALS

[skrillien]

this may surprise some people, but the majority of Normal people think that fanfiction- especially shipping fanfiction and double especially queer shipping fanfiction- is weird and gross whether or not there's incest/age gap/it's rpf. it's all "weird fanfiction" to them.

#profiction #profic #sals #ship and let ship #proship #proship safe

[catharsis-scrawled]

I feel like there's an assumption that art coping always represents the exact type of trauma the person went through, but that's not always the case. Many of the things I created and consumed to cope with my abuse involved a different type of relationship and/or different methods of abuse than what I went through. The coping doesn't always connect in the most straightforward way, and sometimes something too spot on might be triggering instead of helpful. If this is you, please don't feel like you're doing it wrong.

#proship #profic #anticensorship #ship and let ship #sals #abuse #abuse survival #cope art

[academicdisasterfic]

The Laws of Fandom Protect Whiteness.

Disclaimer: I do think that fandom only works if people stick to the Three Laws of Fandom, i.e. SALS, DL;DR, and YKINMK. I am anti-anti and I believe that writing problematic things does not make you problematic in real life. Basically: I'm on your side, fellow fic writers.

But there is a caveat. We have to remember why the Three Laws exist. They are there so that fandom is a safe space for everyone. So it can be a place we all come to and feel respected and heard. But this undoubtedly privileges White people.

The Three Laws of Fandom will inherently protect White people's safety because we don't have to worry about unconscious bias or racist conditioning towards our race or ethnicity. The Three Laws of Fandom do not inherently protect People of Colour because White people in fandom will have forms of racist bias that we have to unlearn. Therefore, the Laws only work if White people choose to be actively anti-racist and listen to POC in the fandom.

Let's expand on this.

This is not saying that writing racism, or writing racially-charged themes, should be censored or off-limits to White people. But when we do write them, we need to remember that the Laws also only work because fandom operates on a comprehensive tagging system. We are able to enforce DL;DR because we have tags showing us exactly what is in the fic. Therefore - don't like age difference? Don't like non-con? Don't like violence? You can opt out!

But if you write racially-charged themes and don't give appropriate content warnings, then you aren't giving POC the chance to opt out. In fact, you are endangering their mental and emotional safety by pulling them into subject matter that has real-world implications for them. And yes, entering fiction always carries a risk of reading something that you don't like - but is far more dangerous for POC than for White people.

It is one thing to accidentally read a fic that depicts a kink you don't like, it is another for a POC to read their own experiences being depicted in a way that makes them out to be no big deal, and not even a big enough deal to be appropriately tagged.

It is also important to note that a POC alerting you to racist themes or passages in your work and asking you to appropriately tag or consider the way you wrote them isn't the same as them flaming you. In fact, it shows care. This person thinks that you are worth their time and effort to try and have a conversation with. If you shut that down and prioritise your right to write anything you want above someone's safety, that is a racist act.

This type of racism results in people like Stitch's Media Mix taking a hard line against the Laws altogether, as they are so regularly used as excuses by White people to justify racism. While I disagree with Stitch's ultimate conclusion, can I blame her for how they got there? The Laws have certainly never been leveraged against me to dismiss my lived experience or concerns, and have only contributed to fandom being a safer space for me. But Stitch is Black and speaks about antiblackness and racism in fandom - and gets barrages of death threats and hate mail for doing so, from fans participating in these spaces.

How are we supposed to tell POC that the Laws keep their spaces safe when they so clearly do not?

On a related note, I think the prioritisation of ✨positivity✨ over any sort of critique or conversation is another mechanism to protect Whiteness. It's important to remember that particularly in slash fandoms, the majority of fans tend to be white queer AFABs or genderqueer people, so the normal structures of patriarchy and heteronormativity that we navigate in our regular lives don't enter into fandom as pervasively. Whiteness, however, is the oppressive structure that tends to persist in slash fandoms, and therefore we need to be cognisant of how this can marginalise and isolate POC fans.

If you avoid difficult, race-based conversations because you only spread "positivity", then you do not actually care about everyone in fandom having a positive experience.

Paraphrasing from 'Conflict is Not Abuse' by Sarah Schulman, conflict isn't inherently bad. It's productive. It shows care. It's growth.

The Laws of Fandom can and should work for everyone. But we are the actual enforcers. We have to recognise the potential ways people can abuse the Laws to marginalise, threaten and isolate POC fans.

People of Colour deserve a seat at the table of fandom. They deserve a safe space. They deserve to feel wanted and seen and respected.

I don't have all the solutions for this - I'm White and recognise that everything I'm saying here I only learned from POC and have probably not said it as well or as eloquently as they have been doing (but no one's listening). I welcome any additions, critiques or insights from POC to this post.

The type of fandom I want to cultivate is safe and inclusive for everyone, and we need to start thinking about what that actually means.

#fandom #hp fandom #drarry #laws of fandom #sals #dl;dr #ykinmk #anti anti #antiracism

[sals-fluttershy]

Being anti ship really shouldn't be this normalised. Calling for censorship and harassing people who make fiction you don't like shouldn't be seen as "normal" at all. Most people get others to call themself 'anti ship' only by claiming that pro shippers are groomers or by claiming that we believe it's ok to abuse people irl. How weak must your argument be that you need to lie about another group to get people to side with you?

#antis nonsense #pro ship #sals #pro shipper #proshipper #proshippers are valid #proship safe #proshipper safe #minors dni #former anti #Im saying this as a former anti like. I was told this shit and also told that media that portrays stuff that would be unethical IRL is immo #-al #By ppl who wanted others to be anti ship

[danpuff-ao3]

I gotta admit...I really feel like I'm gambling with my life by sharing and talking about controversial content I enjoy 😂 It's kind of scary, but also...

I am 100% pro-write whatever, read whatever the hell you want. And I do mean whatever. Fiction is fiction is fiction, baby! You dig content I don't, or that I'm fully uncomfortable with? Not only do I support it, I'm rooting for you, dude! I might be rooting for you across the room, but hell yeah, dude, do the thing!!!! I will be your biggest fan cuz that's hella rad. Look how creative, how bold you are! Again, I'm across the room, but WOOHOO, BUDDY!!!!

So yeah. I'll defend your right to like whatever the heck you like to death.

And yeah it's one thing to sorta vaguely be like "SALS, KINKTOMATO, DLDR" and a whole other to be like "here's a list of all the dead doves I killed and ate" but also...🤷��♀️ If it scares people off, were they really my sort of people anyway? And what good am I doing anyone by playing it safe?

So...another day, another gamble. 🎲🃏

#sals #kinktomato #dldr #dead dove #i live in fear but also i cannot be stopped

[barbwritesstuff]

holy shit you wrote something a little super?? I am suprised but at the same time, you are also the one who wrote the parent-child relationship for a vampire.

It was so good. Literally. I started crying somewhere around the second chapter and didn't fucking stop all the way through it. Calum is my precious baby and if anyone touches him in the other endings, I will personally end them.

That said, I wanted to know if there was a walkthrough or something for the endings? I simply can't seem to get any other ending but two.

Yep. I'm to blame for Something A Little Super. It's my second Ren'py game and an ode to my favourite comic book character of all time: Martha Kent.

It's been a hot minute since I looked at the code, but the way SALS works is that there are two hidden sliding-scale stats. These are:

Hidden_vs_Super

Selfish_vs_Selfless

Both of these start at 50 and every choice you make (with a couple of exceptions) either increases or decreases one or both of these stats. So, for example, if you encourage your kid to hide their powers, that'll be -5 to the Hidden_vs_Super stat. It brings the overall number closer to 'hidden' and away from the 'super'. If you encourage them to help others that'll be a +5 to the Selfish_vs_Selfless.

The five endings are:

High Super, High Selfless

High Super, Low Selfless

Low Super, High Selfless

Low Super, Low Selfless

Else (eg, one or both stats are mid value).

If you're struggling to find different endings, you need to encourage the kid to look at the world differently. So, for example, they need to be more careful with their powers, or to look after themselves before helping others.

The endings aren't bad or good. They're just different.

I really hope that all makes sense. Thanks for the ask, and I'm so glad you enjoyed the game. 💙

#SALS

[coulsonlives]

#i hate how accurate this is someone hug me #antis #censorship #fandom #ao3 #flame wars #meme #suicide ment cw #minors #purity culture #puritanism #satanic panic #sals #ship and let ship #kinktomato #ykinmkato #anti anti

[doesyourshipmakeyouabadperson]

Hello lovely and loving followers! ❤❤ Let's spread some love and positivity for all the amazing ships out there! 🚢💖 Whether it's canon, non-canon, or even crack ships, let's celebrate the joy and creativity they bring to our fandoms. Here's why ship positivity matters:

1️⃣ Representation: Ships allow us to explore diverse relationships and identities. They provide representation for underrepresented groups and help foster inclusivity within our communities.

2️⃣ Imagination Unleashed: Shipping lets us unleash our creativity by envisioning unique connections and exploring uncharted storylines. It's a beautiful way to engage with our favorite characters and build new narratives.

3️⃣ Emotional Investment: Ships often inspire strong emotional connections. They make us laugh, cry, and feel deeply. Sharing these experiences with fellow shippers creates a strong sense of community and support.

4️⃣ Personal Expression: Our ships reflect our personal preferences and aspirations. They allow us to explore themes like love, friendship, and growth, and help us better understand ourselves and others.

Remember, ship positivity doesn't mean dismissing other ships or spreading hate. It's about celebrating the ones we love without tearing down what others enjoy. Let's respect each other's ships and embrace the diversity that makes our fandoms vibrant and welcoming.

(Not liking a ship or even hating a ship is a-okay! Just block tags accordingly and vent about it in your own space. No need to stifle anyone else's fun!)

Spread the love by reblogging and adding your favorite ship tags in the comments! Let's flood our dashboards with positivity and appreciation for all ships, big and small. 🌈💞

#anti anti safe #pro ship safe #anti antis please interact #pro shippers please interact #pro ship #safe for anti antis #anti anti #pro ship positivity #ship positivity #wrote by chatgpt and modified by me ❤ i dont have many spoons rn #sals #ship and let ship

[twilightstarr-zinnia]

Very interesting how it's okay to ship Kazuha with the man who did a bunch of murders and was responsible for his family's downfall, but shipping him with the woman who protected him is too harmful to him and must be pedoincestified somehow.

(I have nothing against ship and let ship Kazuscara shippers, just so we're clear.)

#shipping discourse #beikazu #genshin impact #ship and let ship #sals #proship

[schmem14]

I got a mean comment on a post on here and for once, I IMMEDIATELY deleted it and blocked the user.

It’s been hard for me in the past not to dwell or reply back some unkind retort, or to second guess my validity.

I’m celebrating the power and freedom I have to curate a happy and safe fandom experience for me!!

If you cannot be kind, you don’t belong in my circle, and I’m not going to give you any leeway or stoop to your level.

#be kind #ykinmkato #SALS #DLDR #fandom discourse #curate your experience