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stardust-falling · 3 months

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fandom psa; there is nothing whatsoever that is inherently "problematic" about shipping characters who are "found family."

Adoption is not found family. A blended family is not found family. A found family or chosen family is a group which, through circumstances or simply mutual affection, hold their relationship to one another with equal care and importance as family members ought to. It's not the same type of relationship.

It's not incest. It's not even pseudo-incest unless you want it to be. I personally don't care what people ship, but I'm absolutely tired of people misusing the term "found family" to just recreate the idea of a nuclear family and force those roles onto the entirety of a fandom. Sure, maybe characters who are found family may view themselves like siblings, or like a parent and child or aunt and niece, but they might also just see each other as friends-- and guess what? romantic partners too! That's technically the most widely-accepted form of found family/chosen family there is!

The whole point of found family/chosen family is to have the importance of "family" on relationships that lie outside the commonly-understood bounds of that relationship. Not to recreate the "mommy-daddy-daughter-son" dynamic with unrelated characters and use that headcanon or fanon dynamic to enforce your own morality or preferences on other fans.

#zhuixing posts #fandom #shipcourse #technically #found family #found family is whatever you want it to be #that's the whole POINT #idk this just makes me mad #if you like two characters together platonically just say that and block the ship tag!!!#don't make up an excuse to make a relationship between two consenting adults 'problematic' and target shippers for harrassment #just because you don't like it lmao #also characters can refer to one another with familial terms and it STILL doesn't make it 'incest'#in MANY cultures my own included it's common to refer to romantic partners and unrelated people as brother/sister etc #unless they're literally related it's not incest #and it's not pseudo-incest unless you want it to be #if you're gonna be against a ship for 'moral reasons' at least make sure the incest you're accusing people of shipping #is actually really incest in the first place and not some ridiculously vague definition of the term :)#i generally hate the mindset of 'you can't ship x because morality!' because problematic ships are not real life relationships #and have no bearing on someone's values since fiction is supposed to be a way to look at things that wouldn't work irl #but for those of you who *do* feel like you can't ship things that are 'problematic' and are upset you wouldn't be able to ship #some of your favorite characters because they're considered 'found family'#i hope this encourages you to do what you want #and to have fun bc THAT'S what's important in fandom

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