#don't harass people for their ships

[kathaynesart]

sooo if ted is gone now will capril (cassandra x april) ever be a thing in your au? (i love ur au a lottt btw so well written!)

Thank you so much! As I've said in the past, I'm really trying to avoid actual ships in canon Replica! Like the tv show I do not want to make that the focus, HOWEVER I do want to leave it open ended in the same manner so that there's room for your own interpretation! So if you feel that there's Capril is in this Holiday Special... then there is!

For example: isn't it interesting that April is the only one Cassandra told about the pregnancy? Hm, that could easily be interpreted as just "girl talk" (since she's a woman and would understand better than the guys) or "lover's talk." Again I'm trying to leave this open for your personal preference! The same will go for several other ships, including Raph and Cassandra and even Donnie might have a little something going on the sidelines with a character I'll be bringing back in an upcoming update. Hehe.

Now, I will admit I have my personal preference of ships (I'm a huge romantic and have to really rein it in), but I keep them close to my heart and think that's a little unfair to enforce that onto a story that I want to try and keep "canon" when the canon has never confirmed any of them or even played in that space.

So TLDR, it can be whatever you want!

[skumhuu]

Proshipper = you're against censorship and harassment over fiction & curate your experience on the internet to have a healthy distance from things that make you uncomfortable

Antishipper = you're okay and even encourage harassment towards "freaks" and "weirdos" society deems acceptable to hurt

[royalarchivist]

Everyone this week: *lore, conspiracy theories, long conversations with Cucurucho, multiple attempts to summon the Binary Monster*

Spreen when lore:

[kathrahender]

"We should stop normalizing abuse" "We should stop normalizing toxic relationships in media" "We should stop normalizing shipping X and Y characters together" "We should stop normalizing X trope" "We should stop normalizing this" "We should stop normalizing that"

How about we stop normalizing harrasing people over something fictional, hmm? Or you know- how about we stop normalizing telling REAL people to kill themselves?

And with "harassment" I mean "harassment" for any reason. For any reason. So don't start commenting things like "Yeah, harassing is bad, but-". No. If you're okay with harassing people in certain cases, get the hell out of my blog and block me NOW.

[pearlcaddy]

[Twitter thread by Angry Black Changeling that reads: Low-key think any queer adult with DNI boundaries around ‘pro-shippers’ ought to do a detox consisting of education on queer history especially with respect to the fight against censorship + purity culture, and reckon with the way that - and fandom [especially terrible hot takes within spaces centred around fiction] - has furthered a surveillance culture where treating real world people like they are characters with a visible level of morality you can instantly assess + react to is the norm.

It’s not the norm. It’s purity culture at work.

You’re constantly surveilling yourself and others, and creating a level of psychological unsafety that will not keep you safe.

And let’s be serious for a sec, we know that abusers don’t come wearing “proshipper” badges.

Stats inform that they exist everywhere, and most commonly in heteronormative cultural blindspots such as family, schools, churches, institutions.

There could be overlap, but it’s a serious logical conflation to think it’s the 20 something with heart eyes over a fictional age gap you need to look out for.

That’s not to increase paranoia, but point out logical fallacies in that ‘shipping’ rhetoric.

Tbh on a personal level it’s so concerning because it’s so indicative of so many methods of coercive control: from cishetropatriarchy, to racism, to class based oppression - but it’s insidious in the way it’s creating pockets of surveillance within already marginalised + vulnerable communities who seem unable to realise that it functions on an insidious level that amounts to *thought control* + tokenistic morality.

It’s the opposite of safe.

It can be actually dangerous.

It’s doing the work of oppressors freely + willingly. /End thread]

Fandom has furthered a surveillance culture where treating real world people like they are characters with a visible level of morality you can instantly assess + react to is the norm.

It’s not the norm. It’s purity culture at work.

[se-hos]

do you even like macdennis if you can't handle the fact that mac is also a piece of shit to dennis

[sofigrace]

artist: i've been asked to put another bh member on the background of fearne's coloring book and i chose ashton because i like the pairing

haters: so you have chosen death

[phoenixiancrystallist]

It never ceases to amuse me when I check out a new follower to make sure they're not a pornbot and in either their description or their pinned post they have "proshippers DNI." You interacted first, my guy. This shit goes both ways.

[jesterwhoreknee]

Not me wanting to do a Chalastor/Radiobelle roleplay but being scared to death of being attacked or mocked in the roleplay community for it 💀

Don't get me wrong I love Vaggie and Charlie together and loved Vaggie's angel look alongside the backstory and how they met, but Vivzie isn't good at writting women and they don't have chemistry at all. Meanwhile I have always had a soft spot for Charastor and the dynamic/potential they had since the pilot came out. I know it will never be canon and don't intend in wanting it to be because I respect the characters sexualities/official pairings. BUT LEMME ENJOY MY FANON SHIP IN PEACEEEEE 😤😤😤

[natureboy96]

"You can't write/draw/think that, Feyre is/Rhysand is/Tamlin is/Nyx is/Azriel is/Lucien is/Elain is-"

Feyre/Rhysand/Tamlin are not, never have been and never can be abuse victims or abusers, because they are not real.

Nyx is not, never has been and never will be a child, because he is not real.

Elain is never going to end up with Azriel or Lucien, because they are not real.

These are not people, they are ideas presented in one way from one person. If you like the way these ideas are presented in canon, then enjoy them as they are. If you don't like them as they are, then change them to be something you want to see. If you see someone's ideas that you don't like, in canon or fandom, then find ideas you do like or make your own.

Make them all high schoolers or rival lawyers. Put them all in a polycule at a college frat house. Ship Nyx with Helion and let them fall in love (which already exists, by the way). Make them all preschoolers and reenact the Muppet Babies. Reread the books and enjoy the canon as it is if you like it.

If you see an actual person being abused or assaulted or an actual child in danger, say something. If you see someone writing about or drawing a FICTIONAL CHARACTER who has not been and never will be harmed, and you don't like it, then ignore it or block and go to the ideas you like.

we really gotta talk about this every day apparently... https://www.tumblr.com/natureboy96/759819418730741760/feyre-rhysand-and-tamlin-are-not-real-people?source=share

[noa-ciharu]

Way too many people online need to learn that minding your own business and not caring about fandom stuff you don't agree with is actually a healthy thing to do

See hc, fanart, fic, ship, character, piece of media etc. that you don't like? Scroll further. Block the op if you must or blacklist the tag or eventually vent in your own private space or to a friend in DMs. But don't make your discomfort everyone's problem by harassing people and make fandoms worse place for everyone

[seleneprince]

Kind reminder to everyone (looking at you acotar fandom) that if you don't like a post and what it's talking about, you don't have to read it or interact with it in anyway.

Coming to complain and cry at the comments because you don't agree with the headcanons is like going to cry at a vegan eating peacefully at their table because you love meat.

Fandom is about having fun and playing with characters like they're dolls, twisting the fictional universe to your liking and make up your own wild interpretations. Let people have fun, for fuck's sake.

[francy-sketches]

'Let people enjoy things' warriors r like yes I'm anti harassment unless you make a general negative statement about something I like not targeting any one specific person in which case we're all gonna dogpile on you to tell you you're being a mean bully :((( bc of how anti harassment we are

[kathrahender]

If you want to convince someone of accepting/supporting/liking the ship you like, maybe send death threats and harass them is not the best way. The only thing you're probably doing is making them hate/dislike the ship even more, and not only the ship, but also you and a great part of the fandom who like that ship.

[just-bendy]

[ The original post I wanted to make with the screenshots. ]

(( I was informed that I'm being impersonated on Discord.

Thanks to @discobowser for sharing these screenshots with me.

This is NOT me. This is a shameless impersonator and art thief. I would never join discords and tell people that I own just-bendy ( or talk like that... "bet" ... what?? and who the hell is king kirbo ) And I don't make alt accounts, what would I need that for? I'm still using the one I made back in 2017, and I wouldn't make one especially just for just-bendy.

If you see this user or any user impersonating me in a server, just ban them, no need to harass or attack. I am currently not in any active servers, or any Bendy ones, and I don't plan on joining any, so if anyone starts saying that they are the "real just-bendy" then please know that is a lie. If I could report this person, then I would, but I'm not sure how to do that. Thanks for reading. ))

[zestylemonsz]

am I the only one that doesn't understand antiship and proship?? like why are antis harassing tf out of the proshippers?

like, just block them? yeah, report if necessary. but you shouldn't bully someone for no reason.

can we make like a nuanceshipper or something?? something in the middle, or something nuanced between the two.

because I don't want to be considered anti due to how rude so many antis are. and obviously I'm not a proshipper.

yeah, I'd be a antishipper. but I'd rather just be not opinionated between it.

I have ASD so please explain stuff in detail/ easy to understand words. thanks