First: Me I Love Drawing Characters Hugging I Just Get Too Scared To Post It Bc I Am Not Shipping Them - Blog Posts

reminder to people about tagging etiquette. if it is not TAGGED or MENTIONED that it is a ship post by the original poster then do NOT tag it as such.

No matter what the characters are doing in the post if it is explicitly not meant to be ship art or not stated to be ship art, tagging it as such is rude

"but they're hugging/kissing/holding hands!" don't care, none of that is inherently romantic

"but i ship them platonically" don't care, you still don't have to tag it as ship. And, like it or not, the word "ship" has romantic implications, even if you do not mean it as such.

This isn't even a petty thing. OFTEN does mistagging something as ship discourage artists. they start trying to play it safe, make it impossible to appear as ship art, and most of the time that doesn't even work and it limits them!