#anda loves shippers

[skin-slave]

They aren't the same thing. They aren't the same thing. They aren't the same thing. They aren't the same thing.

[skin-slave]

What do you mean, was?

[apple-orchards-writings]

i just KNOW that if you're extra sweet and obedient (no running away!!) to cult leader kylar he'd spoil you... fancy gothic gowns and only the finest silky fabrics on your skin, your bath water is always scented with pretty flowers like jasmine and honeysuckle, and he never lets anyone else touch you.

i feel like when he's busy with his duties as leader, he'd issue a group of specially appointed handmaidens (high ranking cult members who would do anything for him, including worshipping you) to take care of you when he isn't present and get you all pretty for him when he comes home. but the moment one of them touches you too sensually for his liking (this can be ANYTHING!! LIKE!! AN UNASSUMING BRUSH AGAINST YOUR THIGH AS THEY WALK PAST YOU) and kylar's already seething with rage - summoning an inhuman abomination that vaguely resembles himself, rendering the assailant into a thick red paste on the hallway floor.

cradles you so, so possessively after. you can feel him shaking with rage as he cards his fingers through your freshly-washed hair. doesn't take any of his anger out on you because he believes you're a gift, something that he should cherish and never subject to that ugly side of himself. if you ask him about anything like 'going home' you'll be met with a sickly sweet smile that doesn't reach his eyes. reminds you that this is your home now! don't fret over your origins or silly things like that, kylar doesn't mind! just focus on your newly-wed husband, okay? (also considering the possibilities of a wedding night ritual... involving CL kylar covered in a lot of blood and a petrified pc...)

(also. I SCREECHED WHEN YOU POSTED THIS BECAUSE IVE HAD AN ASK IN MY INBOX THAT HAS BEEN MARINATING FOR AT LEAST TWO MONTHS ABOUT CULT LEADER KYLAR ANDA NDSJSJSJS ...I've been too intimidated to answer it. i will tag you and ur original post when i answer it eventually BSHDNSKS -kuu)

KUU YOU ARE MAKING MY DAY HERE

but wow yeah, the marriage ritual with kylar's body being covered in blood, and he's dipping his fingers in the bowl of what you fervently hope is red paint, slowly dragging them over your body and creating what seem to be markings for a ceremony. Once he's satisfied with painting every nook and cranny of your body, the lights will go dim and his eyes will glow, with his pupils changing shape.

He'll embrace you and you'll spend what feels like an eternity in this room, eventually coming out to see that a week has passed. Kylar will not stop grinning, overjoyed at the fact that you are now bound to him forever, and won't be able to escape him even in death.

The group of handmaidens that tend to you weren't allowed to speak to you before this, but now that you're officially Kylar's, they're so excited to gossip with you! But their new familiarity with you does not mean they'll help you in any way, so be careful. They just love seeing their leader so happy, it would be a shame if anything got in the way of that. In a way, they are your number one shippers lmao

[jazzymarie1006]

Melissa ships Milo & Amanda!

In Smooth Operator, when Amanda asked Milo how his seat got destroyed and Melissa basically tells her "it's best not to speculate" (AKA don't worry about it so my OTP can happen).

By the end of that same episode, as they start to leave, Melissa looks back at Milo and Amanda with the most precious smile on her face.

In school dance, when Amanda asked where Milo was, Melissa points to the hot chocolate waterfall with a smile. When Amanda starts to freak out, she starts to frown.

In Cake 'Spolison, when Milo and Amanda won, everyone else either had their eyes close or were embracing one another, but not Melissa! She was look right to both Milo and Amanda.

[skin-slave]

The anti movement permits/encourages/requires the following traits:

Black and white thinking.

Lack of critical thinking skills.

Lack of emotional regulation.

Inappropriate idealism/willful ignorance.

Projection of individual experience.

Inability to disengage.

Stereotype reliance.

Double standards.

Bandwagon mimicry.

These are traits that are present in children and diminish as they experience appropriate personal and interpersonal growth. The associated ages for these traits roughly range from 3 to 14.

Takeaway: Antis are child-coded. They cannot fuck, get pregnant, raise children, hold jobs or drink/smoke. Anyone enabling them in adult behavior is a pseudo-child abuser. Per their own standards, doxxing their pseudo-abuser partners is a good way to protect them. If they object, it's evidence that they've been groomed and shouldn't be taken seriously.

[Adding to the post body... Pls don't take this seriously. It's an example of how "coding" characters and esp real ppl doesn't make sense, and just causes problems. Adults are adults, no matter what.]

[skin-slave]

Full offense and pun fully intended, but I genuinely think the very existence of "dead dove, do not eat" was a fucking canary in the mines, and no one really paid attention.

Because the tag itself was created as a response to a fandom-wide tendency to disregard warnings and assume tagging was exaggerated. And then the same fucking idiots reading those tags describing things they found upsetting or disturbing or just not to their taste would STILL click into the stories and give the writer's grief about it.

And as a response writers began using the tag to signal "no, really, I MEAN the tags!"

But like.

If you really think about it, that's a solution to a different problem. The solution to "I know you tagged your story appropriately but I chose to disregard the tags and warnings by reading it anyway, even though I knew it would upset me, so now I'm upset and making it your problem" is frankly a block, a ban and wide-spread blacklisting. But fandom as a whole is fucking awful at handling bad faith, insidious arguments that appeal to community inclusion and weaponize the fact most people participating in fandom want to share the space with others, as opposed to hurting people.

So instead of upfront ridiculing this kind of maladaptive attempt to foster one's own emotional self-regulation onto random strangers on the internet, fandom compromised and came up with a redundant tag in a good faith attempt to address an imaginary nuance.

There is no nuance to this.

A writer's job is to tag their work correctly. It's not to tag it exhaustively. It's not even to tag it extensively. A writer's sole obligation, as far as AO3 and arguably fandom spaces are concerned, is to make damn sure that the tags they put on their story actually match whatever is going on in that story.

That's it.

That's all.

"But what if I don't want to read X?" Well, you don't read fic that's tagged X.

"But what if I read something that wasn't tagged X?" Well, that's very unfortunate for you, but if it is genuinely that upsetting, you have a responsibility to yourself to only browse things explicitly tagged to not include X.

"But that's not a lot of fic!" Hi, you must be new here, yes, welcome to fandom. Most of our spaces are built explicitly as a reaction to There's Not Enough Of The Thing I Want, both in canon and fandom.

"But there are things on the internet that I don't like!" Yeah, and they are also out there, offline. And, here's the thing, things existing even though we personally dislike or even hate or even flat out find offensive/gross/immoral/unspeakable existing is the price we pay to secure our right to exist as individuals and creators, regardless of who finds US personally unpleasant, hateful or flat out offensive/gross/immoral/unspeakable.

"But what about [illegal thing]?!" So the thing itself is illegal, because the thing itself has been deemed harmful. But your goddamn cop-poisoned authoritarian little heart needs to learn that sometimes things are illegal that aren't harmful, and defaulting to "but illegal!" is a surefire way to end up on the wrong side of the fascism pop quiz. You're not a figure of authority and the more you demand to control and exercise authority by command, rather than leadership, the less impressive you seem. You know how you make actual, genuine change in a community? You center harm and argue in good faith to find accommodations and spread awareness of real, actual problems.

But let's play your game. Let's pretend we're all brainwashed cop-abiding little cogs that do not own a single working brain cell to exercise critical thinking with. 99% of the time, when you cry about any given thing "being illegal!!!" you're correct only so far as the THING itself being illegal. The act or object is illegal. Depiction of it is not. You know why, dipshit? Because if depiction of the thing were illegal, you wouldn't be able to talk about it. You wouldn't be able to educate about it. You wouldn't be able to reexamine and discuss and understand the thing, how and why and where it happens and how to prevent it. And yeah, depiction being legal opens the door for people to make depictions that are in bad taste or probably not appropriate. Sure. But that's the price we pay, creating tools to demystify some of the most horrific things in the world and support the people who've survived them. The net good of those tools existing outweighs the harm of people misusing them.

"You're defending the indefensible!" No, you're clumsily stumbling into a conversation that's been going on for centuries, with your elementary school understanding of morality and your bone-deep police state rot filtering your perception of reality, and insisting you figured it out and everyone else at the table is an idiot for not agreeing with you. Shut the fuck up, sit the fuck down and read a goddamn book.

[2cmlovers]

Shipping fictional characters is supposed to be HARMLESS and FUN but attack on titan twt likes to ruin it.

People shipping dead character with alive one, they will be labeled as people who living in the past.

People shipping major character with minor character, they will be ridiculed, criticized, anda attacked.

And then when shippers call back those attackers will be like “fIcTiOnAl ChArAcTeRs why you so upset about it? You should go outside!” “I’m just stating my opinions! Lol!” contradicting to what they say, as morons they label, criticize, ridicule, and attack real people for their liking on fictional characters. It shows they just love to express hates/dislikings instead of express an opinion.

[vishwaspur]

Dabba Tales: 29th June, 2017

Gauri! Tu Queen hai! I love you! T_T

“Humein apne hi jhoot se darr lagne laga hai..”

MYE QUEEN IS SO AWARE AND WOKE SHE DOES NOT DESERVE THIS ANXIETY!!!

BM is crossing all levels of creep.

Gauri you really think ye bowtie like khamba is a chotu Omkie? -_- BM being offended at it is actually me.

Gauri is legit scared of BM. My Queen :((

Rudy-Bhavya…skip skip skip.

Are they discussing ANDAS?!

Why are they looking for andas in the fridge? All the andas are present in the logic of this show. Wahan se le lo.

YAAR OBEROIS CANT EVEN AFFORD ANDAS!! HATAO YAAR!!

My Queen Gauri..she is such a PAKKI khiladi. She knows BM is no easy villain. She is actually planning on playing her cards right. Gauri Kumari Ssarma is a gift y’all!

Did Omkie ask for Rudy’s help to give milk to Gauri?

HA. hahahahah CUTE!

DEVAR BHABHI CONNECTION!!

can the spin off be entirely about Rudy’s adventures with his Bhabhis? Like it’s just so much more fun.

“Chocolate brownie!” “Chaaclate kya?”

OKAY THIS IS SO CUTE LIKE FREAKIN’ CUTE!!

“Iss kamre mein devar-bhabhi connection ka network weak hai..”

I love how Gauri is actually looking like the older bhabhi to the chota Rudy. She is indulging in his jokes and is just…pleasantly amused :’)

MAKE THE SPIN OFF ABOUT THEM PLEASE!

Jhanvi babe..tujhe Daadi banane mein Omkie ka koi kamaal nahin hai.

“Tumhari khushi ne mere saare dukh bhula diye Om…”

I’m not crying you’re crying!

“Gauri ko waise mat treat karna..jaise Tej aaj tak mujhe treat karte aaya hai..”

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCKKKKK!!!!

THINGS JHANVI DID - THAT!!!

OMKIE’S FACE!

ARE YOU REALIZING THIS NOW OMKIE?!

Can they PLEASE give Omkara’s introspection scenes?! If Kunal didn’t have the ability to not always needed words to express himself..Dabba wala Omkara would’ve been just a cardbox character who feels NOTHING!

Why did they leave this scene like this?! Omkara had to reply SOMETHING!

*headdesk*

Pinky in pink?

Sab Pinky ki baja rahe hain 😂

How come everyone knows Omkara doesn’t treat Gauri like human his wife? Wasn’t this a bedroom secret of the 1st floor?

MY QUEEN DOESN’T DESERVE THIS GUILT!!

Why is this generation full of shippers? Shivaay se le kar Bhavya tak..sab shippers!

Gauri. Rudra is still legally MARRIED!

OH FFS WHAT KAHANI?! TU APNI KAHANI TOH DHUND PEHLE GAURI BEHN!!!

#DonateAndasToOberois

Bareilly Wale Sharma Ji Ke Gol Gappe

HE

BROUGHT

HER

GOL

GAPPAS

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My Queen is happily munching gol gappas y’all!! HAPPILY!!!!

BLESS YOU SHARMA JI!!

…my queen T_T

she doesn’t deserve this guilt

I CAN SEE HER DYING LITTLE BY LITTLE!

oh god i hate/love this.

Precap: Gauri on the move to bring out BM’s creepiness in front of Omkie. ALLAH KARE OMKIE NOTICES THIS!!

[skin-slave]

check and mate

Why are antis so obsessed with ao3? Don't they know that ao3 was made in 2009, making it a MINOR???????

lmaooo pretty sus of them

[fabiabraginskiventus]

Es curioso que ahora medio mundo anda mamando con que las JK Shippers son las funadas del fandom de JoJos cuando ellas mismas me funaron a mí, y eso que yo soy JK Shipper. ¿Por qué tengo el presentimiento de que dicen que odio esa Ship cuando es de mis OTPs?

Sinceramente, no sé cómo pude ser capaz de escribir otro fanfic de esa ship con las ganas que tengo de mandarla a la mierda con todo esto. Adoro la ship, pero las personas que se supone son mis iguales en ese aspecto... bueno, la mayoría son re-lindas pero unas personitas en específico son un asco y, la verdad, daría lo que fuera por no tener ninguna forma de asociarme con ellas, pero la ship y los personajes en sí... los amo demasiado (aunque a uno le tengo alto love-hate xD Pero esa es otra historia). Planeaba alejarme de la ship totalmente pero... pero aquí sigo y eso puede ser afortunado o desafortunado dependiendo quién seas y qué idea quieres tener de mí. Si quieres irte por el cuento de estas mocosas, pues qué mal, sí me gusta el JK, y lo adoro aunque mi inspiración insiste en crear historias con mucho Angst para ellos. No tengo nada contra la ship, pero si hablamos de shippers... sí hay un numerito muy escandaloso que son demasiado imbéciles.

Publico esta mamada aquí con la idea de que nadie sabe quién soy ni de quiénes o qué estoy hablando. Es un vent pendejo, no tienen porqué hacerle caso. Sólo quiero expresarme en paz de estas cosas que tienen mi mente bien atormentada.

[skin-slave]

This!!!!!

there’s a major difference between “fiction affects reality by making you feel emotions when you view media” and “fiction affects reality by making you go out and murder people when you watch a horror movie because it convinced you that behavior is a-okay”.

it is incredibly disingenuous to act like these are the same or to act like people who are talking about the latter being bs are being ridiculous because you’re purposefully misinterpreting them as saying the former isn’t true.

[skin-slave]

Shamelessly piggybacking off of this post...

Once you start trying to see the uncomfortable, ugly, difficult, visceral stuff as something that isn't inherently unnecessary and to be avoided... the way you interact with art blooms in wonderful ways.

From art that infuriates, to films that hurt, to suffocating darkfic... There is art that needs you to feel bad about it. You can't understand it unless you can feel bad about it and not stop there. The feeling bad is part of the message that the art is trying to convey. If you can't feel bad about a piece of art without running away, you are missing so much. And what you're missing is meaningful.

I'm absolutely not a believer, but Immersion (Piss Christ) is one of my favorite pieces. It's a photo of a small plastic crucifix in a glass container of urine. It's colorful, surreal, and beautiful. It's challenging. It calls forth so much truth about conviction and divinity and modern cultural Christianity. If I were a believer, I would keep a copy in my wallet to remind me.

And ppl who can't stand to feel bad about it hate it so much.

It's gross. Urine is gross. We don't like gross things associated with ppl we hold in high regard, let alone our gods or prophets. It's such a familiar icon. One that many wear and hang on their walls with pride. And it's completely surrounded by something gross. That's uncomfortable.

For ppl who can't feel bad, that's it. That's all it is. Discomfort. The piece is asking questions that they can't hear bc they feel bad and run away. Until they're able to sit in the discomfort and listen, they won't experience the piece.

I'm not saying everyone has to love that photograph. I'm saying that it's important to be able to engage with art that isn't sweet and pleasant. There's value in seeing discomfort as something to get your attention and prompt investigation, not something to be avoided at all costs. Bc it does cost.

[skin-slave]

fify

[skin-slave]

"Pro-ship" does not mean you love every ship!!! It doesn't mean you support everything that a shipper does or says. It doesn't mean you think shipping is all that important. It doesn't even mean that you participate in shipping at all.

It means you aren't opposed to the existence of shipping. You think shippers aren't harming anyone thru the act of shipping. You think the right to ship should be protected. You think the way to deal with ships you don't like is to block tags/blogs, avoid fics, etc.

"Anti-anti" does not mean you like all of the darkfic and related themes! It doesn't mean you like any of them at all. It doesn't mean you don't have squicks or triggers. It doesn't mean that you think all of that is good for everyone, all the time.

It means you believe that those fictional depictions are not the same as those things happening in real life. You know that ppl can consume that kind of art for a lot of reasons - which are nobody's business - without acting them out. You think that the defense of art, including that kind of art, is important and necessary. You think the best way to deal with themes you don't like is to block tags/blogs, avoid fics, etc.

Labels are optional. You get to pick what you call yourself. It just frustrates me to see, "I can't be pro-ship bc I don't like this ship." Or, "I could never be an anti-anti bc I don't like this theme." Those labels and communities are very much accessible to you!! If you think you don't belong for those reasons, you're mistaken!! Very few of us like all the things, and that's ok!! You are welcome here!! 💚

[skin-slave]

[skin-slave]

You guys, there are 2 types of media. Fiction and non-fiction. Non-fiction has to be verifiable fact. Nothing else counts as non-fiction. The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald is a historical event. That's non-fiction. If I start changing stuff about it, it becomes fiction. There's no in-between.

"Based on a true story" is fiction. "Starring X as himself" is fiction. Speculative fiction is fiction. Historical fiction is fiction. Rpf is fiction. It's all fiction. None of it is real, regardless of whether or not it's inspired by something real.