#pro shipping positivity

[pro-fiction-spring-bonnie]

I hope all pro-ship self-shippers have a wonderful F/O filled day!

[cactiship]

Reminder

• You are valid no matter what you ship. Even if it’s considered “bad”.

• Fiction is fiction, ship what you want.

• Even if you ship yourself with characters, that’s perfectly fine too.

Have a great day!

Antis DNI

[romijuli]

It’s not that I don’t LIKE the Fandom Popular Pairings, it’s that I find the assumption that everyone ships them and the general all-consuming nature of said pairings to be kinda exhausting,

[sals-sonic]

"You have to be mindful when it comes to your art and who could potentially consume it!"

I can't control who sees my art. That's a fact. By putting it out on the Internet millions of people could see it and there's no way I could control anyone's reaction to it, let alone be able to stop them from viewing it. If you think that is precisely why people should be mindful, let me ask you this: why should an artist (or author) limit and censor themselves on account of a potential and imaginary "bad audience"? I'm sure that no matter the subject of the art, whether wholesome or problematic, it will eventually be viewed by people I disagree with.

Regardless, why should I let the paranoia of something that can't be controlled dictate what I create? If you're gonna walk on eggshells around your own creative process in fear of something that is ultimately impossible to avoid, you're fighting a losing battle. Stop focusing on things out of your control and policing yourself, and try instead to moderate your own personal space. Blocking accounts is the first thing to do and you can even filter tags if you want to, but never, under no circumstance, kill your art for anyone.

[justaproshipwatermelonnerd]

Another reminder that fanfiction is not big enough to do actual damage to the real world, and the only damage it's doing to you is disgust. So click off it if you don't like it.

[tiny-space-robot]

this just in: the ship you hate is valid regardless of your opinion and still has a right to exist

[ihhfhonao3]

Something something thinking about how antishipping is a very Americanized way of thinking because it’s justifying and being totally fine with the bloodiest most disgusting violence ever but crying and losing your shit when there’s an ounce of sexual connotation between the “wrong people” (or any sort of sexual connotation like at all)

gonna start saying “you’re not an antishipper, you’re a victim of US propaganda” like unironically

[sweet-ladys-things]

Antis: "How is writing about murder/gore and pedophilia/incest the same!? Drawing gore is way different!!"

They're both crimes.

That's how they're the same.

They both will send you to jail irl. Both murder and pedophilia will send you to jail. That's how they're the same.

That's why writing/drawing murder and torture is in the same boat as pedophilia. They're just two different forms of horror. If drawing torture doesn't mean you want to actually torture someone then drawing incest doesn't mean you actually want to have sex with your siblings.

Because they are the same.

[cosmileech]

I MADE AN ANTISHIP BINGO BOARD!!

Feel free to use this anytime, no credit needed ^_^

[sad-drake-lyrics]

what my 65yo father has to say about antis:

let me preface this by saying, i literally wish i had what just happened on video to go viral on TikTok. i was shook by this conversation down to my bones; and if you could see my father - a loud old Italian man with dramatic hand gestures - say what he had to say, i think this shit would blow up. but as i was obviously not filming him while we were eating, i will have to relay to you the story with my words.

so i'm sitting eating dinner at the coffee table with my father while watching TV, as Americans often do instead of eating at the dinner table, and since the news was on he started telling me this story that had been recently mentioned on TV once again from maybe ten years ago (it was in 2014, you can read about it here) where these two 12-year-old girls killed one of their friends as a sacrifice to the Slender Man. yeah, real thing. fucked up.

and so my father told me about how they interviewed one of the killer's mothers, and when questioned about where her daughter's motive could've come from, she said something along the lines of: you know, when i was a kid, i was into Stephen King and horror - and so when my kid was into that kind of stuff, i didn’t think it was a big deal.

so, of course, my response was "yeah, being into that stuff isn’t a big deal at all - it's normal - but being a sociopath and murdering someone is not normal; it's fucked up. but there's nothing wrong with being into horror stories - they're just stories meant to entertain - it doesn't make you a murderer to enjoy Halloween - but it would if you put on a Michael Myers mask and went out and stabbed people." and, of course, like any sane person, my father agreed with me.

then, continuing this line of conversation, i started talking about the concept of how "fiction isn’t reality," and how a frightening amount of people don't understand that; and i literally started telling him about antis - people on the internet who attack and harass others over "problematic" or "inappropriate" fictional interests.

i used well-known pop culture examples like: if you're into Game of Thrones and like Jaime and Cersei together or wanted Jon and Daenerys to end up together (i didn't think he would process the term "shipping," but clearly by the end of this conversation i think i was wrong), that people (antis) will say things like "you should die," and that you "support inc*st in real life," and that "you're disgusting."

i also used the examples of "toxic relationships" in pop culture, like the Joker and Harley Quinn, or Kylo Ren and Rey, and how if you’re into those kinds of fictional relationships that people (antis) will say that you "support toxic relationships," and that you are "glorifying abuse," and that it all "must be what you really want and believe is right or good."

and my fucking 65-year-old father literally goes: "I don’t understand. It’s a TV show. Don't they know it’s fake?"

queue my jaw dropping to the fucking ground because i'm like. YES. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT PRO-SHIPPERS ARE TRYING TO SAY AND THESE PEOPLE DON'T GET IT.

he was flabbergasted, my pals. the shock in his eyes was incredible to behold.

and, oh boy, that isn't even the best part, guys.

my father then says, "Don’t tell me it’s like that with anime too?"

and i said, "it's worse with anime."

and i fucking swear to you - no joke, on my life and baby Jesus' cradle - again my 65-year-old father looks at me and says, “It’s a fucken cartoon."

... ... ...

... i can't ...

i can't end this post better than that.

[pro-fiction-spring-bonnie]

Shout out to all my fellow selfshipping proshippers! Y'all are based and are just as welcome in the selfshipping tag as anyone else!

Your taste in fiction isn't an indication of your morals, your F/Os know this and they too are proshippers!

Your F/Os have always and will always love and adore you more than words could ever describe! There is no soul on this Earth that can tell you otherwise, and if they try just know that they are wrong and will never be right!

[huntinglove]

From the creators of "He would not fucking say that" comes the brand new "He would not be this fucking good at sex"

[catgirl-catboy]

"Murder is okay to glorify because nobody is getting off on it."

You sweet summer child. Everything is somebodies kink, write that down. I've met many people that enjoy gore and murder in a sexual way (and most of them were lovely people, but not relevant)

and I think its very telling that the worst thing you can fathom is somebody getting off to shit you hate, and not, you know, a real person being hurt.

[sals-sonic]

Happy New Year!

✨ Enjoying dark fiction is totally fine! Yes, even if you didn't suffer any kind of trauma in the past.

✨ As an artist or author, you're not a bad person for creating dark fiction, whether you're writing it for fun or to cope!

✨ You don't owe anyone an explanation on why you like certain ships or dynamics! It's nobody's business!

✨ Fiction is like playing with dolls, it offers a safe space to explore dark topics while not hurting anyone!

✨ Dark fiction, whether nsfw or sfw, isn't inherently "worse" or "not as good" as more vanilla types of fiction. Everyone has their preferences, and there is no objectively "good" or "bad" fiction!

✨ Happy 2024!! Let this be a full and creative year for all artists and authors out there, no matter what they draw or write about!! ✨

[sillyfriend-selfship]

Selfshippers!!! Your f/os would never make you feel bad for sleeping too much, too little, or at odd times. They'll help you work on it if you want help, but they'd never force you. They've got your back.

Also, between you and me, they think your sleeping face is soooo cute!! Don't tell them I told you though.

[tiny-space-robot]

antis: "THAT´S A MINOR!!!!!!"

me: