#if you tag this as the ship im blocking

[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.

[izzypaw]

doodling my favs to feel something.. they're so similar

[faggotzoro]

aroace people can date and fuck and yes this post is directed at the cunt posting in the zolu tag that zolu is “wrong” because luffy is aroace. suck my dick from the back

[dailydegurechaff]

Today’s Daily Degurechaff is… let’s swing a bat at a hornets nest and post shipping content!

(The Tanya/Grantz one is a reference to this tweet. The Tanya/Lergen one is sort of a redraw of an old sketch I never finished.)

[goodold-fashioned-killerqueen]

my wrist still hurt but i won't let that stop me from drawing them

(jk i draw this few days ago and i will take some breaks after i done my assignment btw, my hand started to just lock itself when i hold pencil now, and I'm not even hit my 20s, letting you know 👍)

[thegunslingerletmedrop]

"You don't ship Buddie?"

Then: Meh, don't have no dog in that fight. Just here for Firefam.

Now: Ngl, kinda rooting against it purely because of shippers. Some of y'all are cool AF and make me want to ship them, but some of y'all make me want to make a blood sacrifice to ensure it never happens.

[nik0roo]

if you ship sontails, knuxtails, shadtails, or anything of that nature i need you to find the nearest cliff and walk right off of it

[glowfangs]

if we're the same does that mean you can't stop thinking about me, either?

pr*ship/c*mship dni

[the-mushroom-faerie]

so I've started watching farscape

1. so many puppets!!! all the puppets!!!!

2. SENTIENT SHIP LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOO

3. I can see how Vala is a culture shock for farscape fans but I love aeryn and Vala equally

4. I. want. to. hug. a. space roomba.

5. I have mixed feelings about zhaan. like she's pretty and she's nice and she is a gentle soul that can and will kick ass, but she's naked a little too often for my comfort

5. I like criton better than cam (I feel like I'm missing a few letters there please feel free to correct me)

6. I'm only on e7 so I think that's all my opinions rn

[trashcanmando]

Kal Skirata and Walon Vau

they are judging you harder than youve ever been judged in your life

[iratusmus]

fiona fox is the love + light of my life . also no i am not taking any criticism on her questionable tshirt collection i can and will defend all of my choices.

also bonus artist commentary in the alt text

[paranormal-creativity]

(NOT A SHIP)

i've been thinking about them and their dynamic pre-rebellion. they are the only two nightmarens of their kind, and i have to believe they found companionship in each other. would NiGHTS have hesitated for a moment before rebelling, wanting reala to join them? would they have felt betrayed by his refusal? would reala have felt betrayed by NiGHTS leaving anyway? i think NiGHTS's rebellion must have been so, so lonely for both of them.

(PROSHIP DNI)

[sunsetcorvid]

someone stayed up a little too late studying

[ourobororos]

Hey can you draw data in the Hatsune miku outfit?

i was so happy to get this request that i drew lore too. showing up uninvited in typical lore fashion

[lokiiied]

#i don't even wanna tag posts that talk about sylvie with the sylvie tag anymore #bc even when i'm talking about why i like her & her story w/o romance is important to me #and how she seems happier & i hc her as aro/ace #i alwaysss get someone who starts talking ab how she's cLeArLy in love w loki #like #i literally just said it's not about romance what part of this is an aro/ace friendly convo do you not get #not everything is about your ship #i like her as her own character #who does not need to revolve around potential romantic feelings for loki #if you can't talk about her without bringing up loki then...

[worldsokayestdragon]

i keep seeing people on tiktok complaining about untagged jaytim on ao3 as if it's a frequent problem for them like they're stumbling across the ship in fics that weren't tagged for it every other day or something. and like. as someone who reads a probably unhealthy amount of batfam fanfiction, I have literally never had that happen? with jaytim or any other combination of robin shipping? actually in all my years of reading on ao3 I feel like I've seen fics that weren't tagged for the ships in them maybe once or twice in any fandom.

like maybe you should read the tags a little more carefully if you're getting jump scared by a ship you don't like that often. or better yet use the search filters and exclude it! although let's be honest they're probably just lying about it to stir up drama around their least favorite ship