Ship And Let Ship - Blog Posts

legal ships this, illegal ships that... no ships are illegal. the government is not regulating what fictional characters you can and cannot think would create an interesting dynamic. just let people have funnnn omgggg

2024 Proship-tober!

I don't believe the proship community has an art-tober sort of thing! So I made one! Feel free to skip days! Posting this early to give people time to prepare! <3

I'm a fandom oldie and a strong proponent of "ship and let ship", and I defend everyone else's right to ship what they love... But I think that gives people the idea that I like, automatically love every single ship??? Or every single trope?

I don't though!

There are a lot of fandom tropes that are on my "absolutely fuck no" list. There are a lot of irk kinks that are also on my "nope absolutely not" list, too. Personally, this is healthy. I'm able to look at something and go "Yep, I hate it, but it's not harming anyone, so continue to do as you please."

I’d like to rant about something I’ve noticed over 7+ years in fandoms which is 100% probably just me I just wanna know if anyone relates.

Does anyone else feel uncomfortable with making oc/canon relationships in a ‘I get other people doing it but I’d feel weird about doing it myself’ way instead of a ‘that’s a fictional character/canon characters can’t have fan-made love interests’ way? I have no idea how to describe this accurately, might have something to do with being on the aroace spectrum. SALS (ship and let ship), obviously, I just personally feel weird about creating ocs in relationships with canon characters as a result of an attachment to a character??? Fr I’ll make fanart of fanships but not a fanship of my own.

Like does that make sense???

That might be why—across all my ocs—there are, like, 2 couples of which one is too old for me to get rid of/has a lot of sentimental value and the other kinda just…exists as a plot line.

PLEASE TELL ME AT LEAST SOME OF THIS MAKES SENSE????

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That awkward moment when you’re in an artistic hiatus but at the same time feeling inspired to draw SW fan art; happy and/or angsty (or both at the same time) Star Wars AUs, etc. But also struggle with anxiety. Welp. 🍵

MENTIONS OF SA, ABUSE, AND DARKSHIPPING UNDER THE CUT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

⚠️ rant post

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as a pro and darkshipper myself, it genuinely confuses me how people do not see how billford IS a darkship.

do you people forget that alex has literally stated before that he based bill off of ab-sers, such as the ones who those he knew were victims of? it is literally CANON that bill ab-ses ford and his entire family CONSTANTLY. that is ALL he does, in the show, in tbob, everywhere. there has never been one moment where bill has not been ab-sing and harming ford in one way or another - even if they were getting along in stanford's earlier years, that's still gaslighting, manipulation, power imbalance, monster x human, and a lot more. several times he uses fords body against his own will and FORCEFULLY exposes his naked body to the public, obviously, WITHOUT CONSENT. how in the world would that not be SA??

i think that even though bill is just about the fan-favorite of gravity falls, aswell with billford, trying to go against this CANON TIMELINE is blatant denial.

i am in no way saying you CANT like bill, im profiction myself. but at the least try to understand the character that he ACTUALLY is. billford is certainly not my cup of tea, but I cant stop anyone from shipping two fictional characters, especially as a literal darkshipper. do whatever with whatever character, its all fiction. point is - if you're going to swoon over a character and ship something along with 90% of the fandom, go ahead, do this, but acknowledge the fact that he is NOT JUST a precious misunderstood silly lil triangle dude. he can be those things, duh. but that's for sure not ALL he is. billford still IS a darkship, and it IS, and has always been ab-sive.