#and maybe consider using an oc instead and not the only schizophrenic character I’ve ever seen writers treat with a smidge of empathy.

[hawkogurl]

This is an open letter to spideypool/parkner/shippers of really any mlm peter parker ship, but those two are the biggest purveyors of this as far as I’ve seen.

I hope it’s understood that my tone here isn’t personal towards you or your ship but instead the result of months of frustration.

If you’re going to put Harry Osborn in your story as Peter Parker’s abusive ex, as much as I hate that to begin with, can you at least just… not put that in the parksborn tag? Just not use the parksborn tags on most social media and not use the Harry Osborn/Peter Parker tag on ao3?

The people who primarily use those tags are parksborn shippers. We don’t want to see our ship get slandered in our own tags. For another thing, people who enjoy parksborn are also often people who really like Harry, and it’s extra not fun to see him specifically undergo what is always very severe mischaracterization. There are a lot of reasons it generally comes off pretty poorly to write specifically Harry like that, but even just watching your favorite guy be treated like that constantly wouldn’t be very fun, would it?

I realize it’s a pretty pointless battle to try and convince you to not write Harry like that at all, and I really don’t care enough to try, but all I ask is that you simply not put it in our tags. That’s all we as a collective want. If you’re concerned about filtering, use a tag in the additional tags section, just not the relationship tag. You’d be upset if about 10-20% of the content in your ship tag was your fave being mischaracterized and written as an abuser. Don’t put it in the ship tag. The ship tag is where people who like the ship go to read and look at content for the ship.

Please stop putting it in our tag.