#this is about a lot of ships

[brawnie]

*grabbing mlm shippers by the shoulders* guys nobody needs to be the twink. nobody needs to be the sub. nobody needs to be the femboy. they can both be big fat hairy men who bask in each others masculinity or they can both be unspeakable monstrous creatures with inhuman genitalia it’s okay I’m holding your hand. Let me show you the way

#shipping #this is about a lot of ships #so I’m gonna tag a few #zosan #zolu #destiel #radioapple #I’m not saying you can’t play around with these themes man #I just feel like they’re shoehorned in so often #lawlu #davekat #pepsicola #sabriel #lgbt #fandom #dirkjake #10k #20k #1k

[lowlightt]

love ships that love to madness, to despair and damnation and ruin, to death and beyond

#this is about a lot of ships #but primarily about bingjiu #I am v obsessed and about to make it everyones problem #svsss #bingjiu

[bowties-and-warlocks]

look they have their problems but they are the grumpy and sunshine duo

#this is about a lot of ships #however comma #it’s about Lorelai and Luke #i love them your honor #they have issues ngl #i could go on and on #luke x lorelai #gilmore girls

[grimalkhiindi]

I hate you shipping discourse I hate you unnecessarily aggressive DNI banners I hate you dehumanization of those you disagree with I hate you harassment over ships or favorite characters I hate you purposeful lack of nuance I hate you false equivalencies I hate you policing how people engage in fandom I hate you actively trying to make fandom spaces hostile I hate you refusal to filter your feed I hate you making it everyone else's problem

#like no it's actually not ok for you to send death threats to someone because you don't like how they're shipping characters #ok to reblog #i hate you meme #anyway back to ao3 #because i think original context tends to be helpful to know #this post was about zadr. and by extension an//ti zadr. #but i know this applies to a lot of fandoms

[kitausu]

There are just some ships that if people are writing break up fics for them I assume the whole thing is ooc because THOSE motherfuckers broke up? Yeah right lmao

#kit gets personal #fandom #this is about a lot of ships #but also one very specific ship #iykyk tho

[soranker]

tomorrow :)

#TRIGUN MAXIMUM SPOILERS #trigun maximum #vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #ok...... one more......... yall can have a little vashwood as a treat...... #i actually love them so much SO BADLY but u prob wouldnt b able to tell bc i dont post a lot of ship art #but trimax vashwood. holay shit. hydrogen bomb yaoi #ive also just been like. digging into so much post-canon vashwood (<- sad and delusional and coping) #LIKE DONT GET ME WRONG I LOVE LOVE LOVEEE WOLFWOOD'S CHARACTER ARC and i think [redacted] is SO IMPORTANT AND VITAL TO THE STORY #BOTH THEMATICALLY AND FOR VASH'S CHARACTER ARC. i literally would not have it any other way unfortunately </3 BUT A PERSON CAN STILL DREAM! #ok ya ill stop talking now bc i think i could talk about them and think about them forever.. *scratching the back of my head*

[theshamblewithsybles]

YOU think they have a beautiful bromance I think they are approximately .5 seconds away from fucking raw on national television. We are not the same.

#this is about royjamie #“it’s a father son relationship” bro stfu #phil dunster literally said he’s more daddy than father so keep it to yourself #royjamie #roy kent #jamie tartt #ted lasso #brett goldstein #phil dunster #they are in love your honor #I know how many ships this could apply to so god knows what the tags are gonna look like #shipping #ao3 #queer #I have a lot of feelings on this ship

[crimson-rain-smoked-flower]

I’m not trying to attack you, but do you know that proshipper means someone who supports and romanticizes pedophilia, incest, and abuse? Your reblog on that post seems to read that you think antis just hate on people for having ships they don’t like. But it’s completely different than that. Just looking on the proshipper side of Tumblr and the internet and you can see people happily shipping children and adults and making nsfw content of such things.

i appreciate that you're not being outright hostile, but i have to say, that on its own put you above basically every anti i've interacted with.

i understand where antis are coming from, i really do. there are a lot of things on the internet that make me deeply uncomfortable, including the minor/adult ships that you mention. i don't want to anything to do with those kinds of ships and i would be happiest if i never saw them again. which is why i'm proship.

nine times out of ten, if i see that kind of ship brought up on my dash, it's because i was following an anti without realizing it, and they brought it up unprompted and untagged, to talk about how bad it is that they exist. they are the ones putting that kind of content in front of my face and making it harder to avoid.

the thing about people who ship those ships is that they're generally very aware that not everyone wants to see that kind of content, and so they tag it. they make sideblogs to talk about it. they don't go out of their way to shove it in people's faces. that means i, and everyone else who doesn't like it, can avoid it.

what antis want is for it to not exist at all. they want the tags to be purged and blocked, and for anyone who uses those tags to have their accounts deleted. and sure, that might get rid of some of it, but do you know what would happen to the rest? it would stop being tagged. people who don't want to see it wouldn't have the tools to avoid it. this isn't just a hypothetical, that's what's happened any time a fan space has tried to do that.

that's not even getting into the rabbit hole of what should be banned and what shouldn't. obviously any content that depicts real children or real life abuse shouldn't exist and shouldn't be allowed to be posted, but basically any platform that people use already enforces those policies, and there's not much of a slippery slope to go down there. if it involves real living breathing people being abused, it's bad. end of discussion.

but the same can't be said for fiction. ask ten antis for a specific list of all the content that should be banned, and you'll get ten different answers. what about kink? what about roleplay? what about horror and murder and anything that involves fictional characters being graphically tortured? what about people using art to process terrible things that have happened to them? what about art that uses dark themes as a horror element? if you just want to ban anything questionable to anyone, that's the line of thinking that gets any mention of lgbt existence banned. and again, this isn't just a hypothetical, this has happened before, and that's generally where it leads.

i know, from personal experience, that antis do, in fact, send harassment to people just for shipping things they don't like. i've gotten accused of absolutely vile shit for shipping two fictional characters who were both consenting adults. i've seen ship wars turn into moral battlegrounds, over ships that an average person wouldn't bat an eye at.

the thing about "romanticization" is a whole other can of worms. the anti logic goes like this: if someone sees something (even if it's very obviously fictional) in a positive light enough times, they will start thinking it's okay in real life, and go on to hurt real people. the problem with that is that it's just. blatantly untrue.

if it were true every horror movie fan would be a serial killer, every person that studies dark media would be an unhinged psychopath, and everyone who is into ddlg would be a pedophile. but they're not. they just aren't. people have directed movies just as fucked up as the darkest shit on ao3, and are still capable of being normal human beings who know right from wrong in real life.

even if someone is that impressionable, scrubbing away the existence of every piece of questionable content isn't going to solve their problem, because they're still going to be vulnerable to con men, scams, and cultists. the only thing that would actually materially help someone like that is developing their own morals and critical thinking.

children are also more impressionable, and there's a lot of content that's not suitable for them, but that doesn't mean that content shouldn't exist. it just means that they should stick to spaces designed for them (which most social media sites, tumblr included, are not) or, if they're old enough to be responsible for their experience online, they, or a trusted adult in their lives, should block and filter out things that they aren't comfortable with.

which is what everyone on the internet should be doing. it's what i do, and it's made the internet a much more pleasant place to be. and it's why i sometimes worry for antis mental health, especially teenagers, because they're being told it's right and moral to seek out content that makes them uncomfortable and to engage with the people making it. and that's just. really bad. it's not good for the creators that they're harassing obviously, but it's also really bad for them! it's not healthy to seek out things that make you feel bad, and it's a terrible internet safety lesson to teach minors that it's okay for them to seek out and engage with people making adult content.

individual harassment and crusading is never going to succeed at removing dark content from the internet. it just isn't. at best you might get a small percentage of people who create that content to stop sharing it, at worst you're just going to make people stop tagging it, and either way, you're exposing yourself to things that make you feel bad, when you don't have to.

if you want to materially change the type of content you see, you can. the block button is your friend, use it liberally. same with content filtering and tag blocking.

#oops this got really long #cd.ask #proship #disk horse #tw pedophila mention #uhhh what to tag #tw shipping discourse #this doesn't even get into the antis that i've seen proudly professing that they care more about fictional characters than real people #because i don't know how to explain to someone that real humans matter more than cartoon characters #or how to avoid content on platforms other than tumblr bc frankly thats a lot of the reason i don't use them #i don't trust an algorithm #also im turning anon off after posting this so if you want to send me hate you cant be a coward about it #also be prepared to get blocked and ignored #the only reason i answered this person is bc they weren't being hostile

[wikoymi]

So eepy

#komahinanami #komahina #hikoma #hinanami #nagito komaeda #hajime hinata #chiaki nanami #sdr2 #danganronpa #danganronpa fanart #fanart #art #ship art #finished #wikoart #been thinking about them a lot lately #hajime hinata the kind of guy who cant sleep without a weighted blanket #good thing he has 2 #however he is unable to move. quite unfortunate #fortunate for nagito and chiaki #haha fortunate. like. Like. Like #not sure if i should tag km x nm bc i dont really ship them. if it is its in the way that chiaki is hahstag nonbinarey #i remmeber when i played sdr2 the first time i gen got jumspcared everytime they she/herd chiaki LOL #trans hajime ftw

[meziniart]

he's touchy

#EDIT: miguel was looking a bit too pale on my first version so I tanned him a bit :} #in which peter is very touchy without realising and miguel does realise a lot™ #haven't talked enough about them here but obviously i have a miguel brainrot #my personal twitter only has miguels ass #havent looked at their ship name but im calling it #spider dad yaoi #spiderman across the spiderverse #spiderverse #across the spiderverse #miguel o'hara #spiderman 2099 #atsv #peter b parker #spiderdads

[mardyart]

pre red carpet routines

#i love Love love them so much your honour #feel free to send hcs my way!!! i wanna talk about them yeahh #heartsteel #heartsteel fanart #kayn #k’sante #yone #ezreal #sett #aphelios #settphel #(i ship them a Lot hh) #lol #league of legends #league of legends fanart #art #fanart

[screamingblogger]

yadda yadda first dnd character is a reflection of the player yadda yadda

only murph could ever play riz and riz could only ever be Murphs character. watching the wheels spin in this mans mind every time any kind of investigation or information gathering comes in to play is insane

the other bad kids stalling conversations until riz gets there because murph already has a full game set match interrogation prepared for Brennan is top notch, sometimes the lines between Brian Murphy and riz gugak disappear completely and baby im here for it

#gorgug being like uhhhhhh can riz get here please really got me lmao #‘I need murph to phrase this better’ #something something murph saying in an early adventuring party that he has to steer the ship to get people anywhere #I think a lot about riz okay. #fantasy high #dimension 20 #riz gukgak

[blitheringbongus]

Personally I think they’d be cute

#BEEN shipping them for over a year I thinkkk?? #gods I wish the bachelors were polyamourous so I could marry both Harvey and Shane without it being immoral #I care a LOT about the feelings if these fictional pixel men I could NEVER cheat on either #my art #queued #sdv #stardew valley #sdv fanart #stardew fanart #stardew #stardew vally #sdv harvey #stardew harvey #sdv shane #stardew shane #sdv harvey fanart #sdv shane fanart #stardew harvey fanart #stardew shane fanart #shane x harvey #harvey x shane #sharvey #hane #??? I don’t think these guys even have ship names- #oh well #they’re in LOVE in my HEART #pickled peppers #dr pepper

[heartscrypt]

the web - fear of manipulation and lost control made manifest

#twst #twisted wonderland #jamil viper #kalim al asim #twst tma au #tma #heartscribbles #dont tag as ship #honestly this piece stands alone w/o the tma au tag but i just want it there for context #but for the very niche audience of tma twst people im sure you all understand me when i say jamil is SOOOOO webcoded #i have a lot of thoughts on a twst tma au that will probably come out later #most of them center around web!jamil tbh #there is something incredibly funny about aligning (guy with horrid fear of all bugs ever) with (spider themed fear god) #i will keep doing it

[noctilia]

#anastasia the ninth #anastasia the first #alecto the first #alecto the ninth #noctiliart #the locked tomb #fan art #nona the ninth #‘im so sorry about samael’ ;-; #i ship them your honor #i’ve been having a lot of anastasia/alecto thoughts lately #you might have noticed #also after months of painting various blonde women with issues i’ve finally nailed down how to paint blonde hair from imagination #and make it look fluffy #here’s a video bc some of you liked it when i include the progress last time 😘

[selfshipping-haven]

me when i see people talk about their fictional crushes

#i'm just like #come to the liiiiiight #i was there once #you'll feel a lot better once you're unabashed about it! #self ship #self shipping #selfship #selfshipping #f/o #fictional other #fictional crush #fictional character crush