Shipping Culture - Blog Posts

If I see any comments disagreeing with this I'm putting you on a watchlist and calling your mother.

“they’re just friends why are you shipping them” “you’ve never heard of bromance” “they’re not gay”

Tell that to the directors, writers and artist who barely put any energy into the supposed love interest of the show/movie. Like the two characters who aren’t supposed to be shipped and are friends only, are literally dying for each other and expressing love in subtle or niche ways only the other person would know.

Whilst the mc and love interest chemistry is drier than the fcking sun.

so uh blame the writes and directors for being lowkey (highkey) shippers

This obviously isn’t for every canon ship, since some are rlly well written. But like theirs a reason fans are shipping characters together.

"It's not about the CANONICAL chemistry. Canon can go fuck itself. It's about the POTENTIAL for chemistry. It's about the fact that, had things gone just a little differently, had they gotten just a little more screentime together, they would be in a serious relationship."

-- Me explaining rarepairs and crackships and stuff to my sib

It's always "Worry about real children" until people do worry about the real children GROWN ASS ADULTS wrote porn of on ao3. Real child actors, real random teenagers, real children. Those are all things allowed on ao3 and as much as i love fanfiction i care about children more. you people are so dumb for trying to defend this people, "it's just fantasies" YOU SHOULDN'T BE FANTASIZING ABOUT CHILDREN IN THE FIRST PLACE 🤦‍♀️

No self proclaimed "pro-shipper" people aren't mad because "ooh you enjoy taboo things how scandalous for our puritan eyes" people don't like you because your community is filled with predators and pedophiles. You don't actually like taboo things in the context they were written in you just want to write and draw porn of children hope this helps. (L0licons and Sh0tacons should hang themselves btw 💗)

So i might get some hate about this but at this point idfc im so tired

Unpopular opinion but, can we PLEASE bring back to OG definition of proshippers?? I feel like people changed the definition when getting into fandoms became more "mainstream" (HEAVY quotation marks).

Before you comment allow me to educate you. A proshipper is someone who is into shipping in fandom originally created from x-files in the 90s (this website has more information but thats just a long story short definition)

Technically the people you dont want interacting with your profile is someone who is a darkshipper (even thats fucking pushing it). If youre curious (this might get me some hate but again idfc) Im a Comshipper (for me im more into the complicated/complex relationships such as unhealthy attachments and toxic relationships but i do love me some fluff)

While yes i can see where proship can mean Problematic ships but again thats what a darkship is. Its its own thing. I just wish that people didnt change the meaning of something thats been established SINCE THE FUCKING 90s. And seem to completely forget that meaning, like??

I understand the weirdos that ship weird shit, i have my fair share of ships i dislike. But personally as a Comshipper i have a nuance perspective on my ships that are like that, i understand it may not be healthy but i understand WHY its unhealthy and know not to do that or look for that (boo istg dont mention my love life rn)

This needed to be said as someone who has a friend who is an OG definition of proshipper. But i will be a safe space (as long as you arent weird) for anyone. Anyways rant over, again please do some research or look at the link (<- same link just added again) i provided before leaving a comment.

https://www.tumblr.com/squaloropera/749207242108256256/hey-ask-me-about-the-inherent-heteronormativity-of?source=share

Okay explain because I'm interested

Oh thank god. You will regret this.

Now, the first thing to do here is to explain exactly what I mean by ‘top/bottom’ discourse. What I’m referring to, specifically, is people arguing over fictional characters (usually) and their preferred positions in penetrative sex. These characters being gay, almost exclusively. Pretty fucked up, but now that we have that point of reference, I can explain better. Now, there is no inherent heteronormativity in thinking a character prefers to bottom or top, but the discourse here is usually where the problem lies. First of all, roles of ‘top’ and ‘bottom’ aren’t exclusive. A top can bottom, a bottom can top, there is no set rule. Thinking anything otherwise dangerously borders on ‘____ is the girl of the relationship cause he only ever takes’ territory. This is the heart of this heteronormativity claim. In general, this discourse will be in the comments of any fanart or fanfiction of a gay fictional pairing that happens to be sexual. Usually, you’ll find at least a few comments of ‘Nooooooooo, ____ totally tops!’ and with the expectation that said character should always be the more sexually dominant one, even if there’s no penetrative sex being displayed and the word ‘top’ is being used to refer to sexual dominance. The core of this discourse is never actually about the actual meaning of ‘top’ and ‘bottom’, but in fact the words are being used in place of ‘the girl’ and ‘the guy’. If you replace ‘____ is the bottom!’ with ‘____ Is the girl in the relationship!’ it suddenly makes the comment make sense, and also reveals the sinister nature of top/bottom discourse.

I hope this was coherent, lol.

When Daniel Howell started opening up about how much he hates shipping culture surrounding his relationship with Phil, but I never did that shit even as a kid so I get to watch people getting shamed for their fucked up behaviour

I can't wait for everyone to get to a point where they realize this and all the other times the members hit one another wasn't okay. No matter who did it. Nobody should put their hands and try to hurt their coworker in public, it's not cute. All the members have hit or pushed or kicked one another in some type of way. Honestly I found it weird cause it's very rare to have that happen so many times with such a controlled group which tells me this was normal. It's really sad cause many were very young, some hardly knew one another and it's just really suspicious. They all got used to disrespecting and being disrespected physically and it wasn't okay. Because S.m was the management I still blame them because it's their job to control that type of thing. It's obvious s.m let them do whatever, I suppose if they just start fighting oh well. They didn't care about these boys and in turn they took their frustration out on one another, but still had to makeup because they had no choice. They had to punish the others who misbehaved in public cause the managers weren't allowed to do so. It's very sick and I pray they get healing for all the trauma they went through.

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