Shipping can be a way to imagine things we’d actually want to happen (in canon or to ourselves). Shipping can also be an enjoyable way to explore other possibilities, no matter how unrealistic they might be. Both approaches are fine and everyone can ship however and whatever they want.

Read “You Are Not Shipping the Way I’m Shipping and That’s Okay” on Pillowfort / Tumblr.

https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/3668559

https://www.tumblr.com/carduelis-carduelis/727001579271651328/you-are-not-shipping-the-way-im-shipping-and

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I think we should bring back a radical mindset of “ship and let ship” and “your kink is not my kink” in #fandoms spaces these days.

People seem to have forgotten that. It doesn’t start with harrassing real people over fictional characters they like. It already starts with comments like “ewww, kink/ship xy is gross 🤢” which is just plain rude, esp when you comment that under a post/text/whatever, where a person talks about said kink/ship and expresses that they like it. Imagine me barging in your home and telling you your decoration is shit. You probably don’t like that as well.

It’s fine if you don’t like certain stuff. No one needs to like anything, that would be unrealistic. But you know what the responsible way to deal with it is? Just scroll past it. Just ignore it. Put the stuff, you don’t like, on a filter list and just. don’t. interact. with. it. It’s not that hard.

“But what if I’m in a private chat with someone and they start talking about really gross stuff like incest??” Just tell them politely that’s not your cup of tea and move on. If the other person is not an asshole, they’ll respect your boundaries. But if said person has talked about an incest ship they like, and you start with “eww, disgusting 🤢”, then you’re the unfriendly person here.

The only reason I don’t put “proshipper” on my profile is that it would make me a target for antis. Proship simply means: Don’t be an asshole and harrass real people over fictional content, ship and let ship and other people’s buisness is nor your buisness. Proship doesn’t mean, that the person is a groomer, a predator and a rapist. That’s shit made up by antis who take that as justification to harrass real people and go to extreme measurements to do it. It’s wild.

TL;DR just be a nice person and don’t harrass real people over fictional content. Ship and let ship and stay out of peoples buisness.

#fandomculture #fandomdiscourse #proship #proshipper