Getting Stopped By The Shipcourse Police: Hey Pal, You Can't Proship Without A Proshipping Permit. To

You and me can be together! FOREVER!

Imagine being mystic flour in this bunch. You are actually focused on getting your souljam meanwhile these chuckle fucks are in love creepily obsessed with their other half and thats one of the main reasons why they lost. If I was mystic flour,I would more done than already am.

Funny, ain't it?

YouTuber: Hey, I swear and cuss and yell. But my videos is not geered towards children. It's not my job to monitor your children and make sure they only consume content age appropriate to them.

Anti: Yeah. People shouldn't be expecting random YouTubers to make content for kids.

Horror Writer: Hey, I make graphic and scary media. But my books/movies are not meant for children. And it's not my job to make it appropraite for children/

Anti: Yeah. They made it clear what the movie was in the trailer/poster. If a child watches that and gets scared it's their own fault. The writer made it for adults not kids.

Adult Show Creators: Hey, my show has sexual jokes and violent imagry. But it's not my fault if a child sees my work. My shows are for adults, not children.

Anti: Yeah. Not everything is meant for kids. It's up to parents to make sure their children don't see inapropriate material.

Libriarian: Hey, we have a variety of books including books parents don't agree with. But I'm not payed to monitor what children are reading. The most I can do is ask a child if they know what they're reading and if it's in their age bracket. But I can't memorize the morals of every parent of every child who comes here to make sure they're reading approved books. And it's absurd to expect me to.

Anti: Yeah. Book banning and censorship is alt-right tactics and disgusting. It's not libriarians' jobs to make sure your child is reading books you approve of. If you don't want your child seeing somehting you don't approve of, you monitor them.

Proshipper: Hey, I make content with taboo themes and imagry. But I make it clear children shouldn't be seeing my content and it's not meant for them. My content is meant for adults and it's not my job to parent random people's children.

Anti: That's groomer logic! Keep that shit to yourself! What if a child sees it!? You deserve to rot in jail! KYS! Pedo! Children don't listen to DNIs! We should be protecting children from this degeneracy!

I personally found the book yucky, it's just not for me, but this is so dumb omg

So apparently an Australian woman was arrested for writing a dark romance novel about a guy who was attracted to his friends daughter since the girl was, like, three. There's no actual smut or nsfw stuff until the female character is 18. She's being charged for the content of the book, nothing else(as far as I'm aware), and they're labeling it as producing, possessing, and distributing child abuse material.

I can get feeling icked out by the content or the trope but, like, it's fiction. It's words on a page. So far there is zero reliable evidence that any real children were harmed or mentioned. And the book, as far as I know, doesn't even contain any actual explicit underage content. This kind of thing, and people celebrating her being arrested, is a slippery fucking slope. Jfc.

fun fact! every ship is a "proship" because proship isn't a type of ship, it's just letting people ship what they want!

This could trigger sa victims 🤓" they say to an sa victim.

Dont use people's trauma as a way to hate on proshippers. It comes off like how conservative men pretend to care about women only when talking about trans people

so yeah about the new update

also sugar literally calls her "my other half" is this something???

cw vent

I find it so so disrespectful how as soon as someone makes sexy fanarts of a fictional character who's a sa victim, antis come to harass them like "sexualizing sa victims is disgusting and wrong and we're right to harass you for it" and even go as far as to edit their art to completely cover the character in clothes until we can't see an inch of skin.

I'm not going to sugarcoat it: as a sex-positive rape survivor, go fuck yourself antis who insinuate that ALL victims must absolutely become sex-negative and aren't allowed to be sexy anymore to be a "valid victim"

"Valid victimhood" is the stupidest thing to come out of all this discourse. All victims are valid. It doesn't matter if they're sex negative or sex positive. It doesn't matter how they present themselves. It doesn't matter what they believe in. There's no such thing as an invalid victim.

The Three Laws of Fandom

If you wish to take part in any fandom, you need to accept and respect these three laws.

If you aren’t able to do that, then you need to realise that your actions are making fandom unsafe for creators. That you are stifling creativity.

Like vaccination, fandom only works if everyone respects these rules. Creators need to be free to make their fanart, fanfics and all other content without fear of being harassed or concern-trolled for their creative choices, no matter whether you happen to like that content or not.

The First Law of Fandom

Don’t Like; Don’t Read (DL;DR)

It is up to you what you see online. It is not anyone else’s place to tell you what you should or should not consume in terms of content; it is not up to anyone else to police the internet so that you do not see things you do not like. At the same time, it is not up to YOU to police fandom to protect yourself or anyone else, real or hypothetical.

There are tools out there to help protect you if you have triggers or squicks. Learn to use them, and to take care of your own mental health. If you are consuming fan-made content and you find that you are disliking it - STOP.

The Second Law of Fandom

Your Kink Is Not My Kink (YKINMK)

Simply put, this means that everyone likes different things. It’s not up to you to determine what creators are allowed to create. It’s not up to you to police fandom. 

If you don’t like something, you can post meta about it or create contrarian content yourself, seek to convert other fans to your way of thinking.  

But you have no right to say to any creator “I do not like this, therefore you should not create it. Nobody should like this. It should not exist.”

It’s not up to you to decide what other people are allowed to like or not like, to create or not to create. That’s censorship. Don’t do it.

The Third Law of Fandom

Ship And Let Ship (SALS)

Much (though not all) fandom is about shipping. There are as many possible ships as there are fans, maybe more. You may have an OTP (One True Pairing), you may have a NOTP, that pairing that makes you want to barf at the very thought of its existence.

It’s not up to you to police ships or to determine what other people are allowed to ship. Just because you find that one particular ship problematic or disgusting, does not mean that other people are not allowed to explore its possibilities in their fanworks.

You are free to create contrarian content, to write meta about why a particular ship is repulsive, to discuss it endlessly on your private blog with like-minded persons.

It is not appropriate to harass creators about their ships, it is not appropriate to demand they do not create any more fanworks about those ships, or that they create fanwork only in a manner that you deem appropriate.

These three laws add up to the following:

You are not paying for fanworks content, and you have no rights to it other than to choose to consume it, or not consume it. If you do choose to consume it, do not then attack the creator if it wasn’t to your taste. That’s the height of bad manners.

Be courteous in fandom. It makes the whole experience better for all of us.