There's A Very Unique Kind Of Rage I Get When You Say You Had A Bad Experience Under A Specific Set Of

There's a very unique kind of rage I get when you say you had a bad experience under a specific set of circumstances and some absolute bottom-feeding trollop will turn around and say oh but they had such a wonderful experience under a completely different set!!

Like no shit?? We did not have the same experience?? That's why yours was good and mine was bad??

Is normalizing problematic stuff in fiction actually harmful to others in real life, or is that just something said to prevent further talk of such things?

The notion that fiction can in any way normalize "problematic stuff" is a discussionary roadblock in much the same way that the moment you try talking to certain people about certain things they whip out pedophilia as a trump card.

Its also why its actually so fucking important that from a young age we are given proper, well-rounded education and opportunities to exercise things like critical thinking, self-reflection and the ability to analyse what is in front of us to form our own conclusions instead of blindly following and believing whatever we see at first glance.

(Which applies to everything.)

Its also why its so important to separate things like creative appreciation and reality. Which we see in the whole anti vs proship debate all the time. We are supposed to observe fiction from the outside. We are not supposed to try to convert reality into fiction or exist in the real world as if we are in fiction.

Have you ever watched Hannibal and gone out to kill someone to turn them into a fancy European dish? Have you ever watched Game of Thrones and tried to fuck your sister?

Lolita is another prime example. The amount of people who didn't understand the actual point of Lolita and still don't is fucking staggering. Lolita is supposed to make you uncomfortable because you know its not right. You know its not normal. It doesn't romanticize or normalize pedophilia and older men going after young teenage girls. It does the opposite.

There are two types of people who believe or are susceptible to believing things they see in fiction are acceptable in real life; the uneducated and the mentally unstable.

I wanted to ask about something: does the rpf of real minors considered CSEM? If not, does that mean tha CSEM is just refering to pictures of real minors?

That would come down to the legal parameters of where the work was created and/or hosted but in general, no, because no actual minor is being exploited. The 'material' isn't real and there's no visual to try and present it as such.

(In the way that hyper-realistic artwork or photo manipulations would. Technically the material itself is fake but it was created with the aim of presenting it as real, or assumed as real.)

That, and, it can be incredibly difficult to actually manage all the different criteria of what makes it a crime or not, and what qualities tip it over into the league of actionable.

In some countries its technically illegal, but rarely if ever actually prosecuted or acted against. In much the same way that technically, a lot of fan-made merchandise is illegal, but the companies and trademarks only ever enact a strike when the gets 'too big.'

The gist is, barring very few exceptions, and fewer still actual prosecutions, no. It is not.

Anti: Comes onto my very obviously proship blog and makes a shitty comment about proshipping thinking I'll magically agree with them Me: Does Not Agree AntI: 😡😡 now I'm gonna go through all your posts and leave even more shitty comments and then block you and whine about it on my blog 😡😡

I feel like antis only ACTUALLY care about victims if they fit their "perfect narrative" of what a hurt person "should be" and I'm quite frankly tired of it

CoughStrangerThingsfandomcough.

i just wanna say thank you for having this blog as someone who is profic (i hesitate to call myself proship bc of the modern connotations (despite having a few "proships" myself)) who like, ACTIVELY DISLIKES most problematic shipping tropes like age gaps and incest. i dont like it. but yknow what i DO like? ignoring it. blocking people. staying in my lane. your blog reminds me of simpler fandom times when ship and let ship was the norm. i miss it.

Living in the era where we're radicalizing everything again is exhausting. I'm happy you have this space as a harbor from the storm ❤

I know I get rant-y and a little bitchy sometimes but the point of this blog and its general content will always be the same, and so will my core viewpoints. Ship and Let Ship is the foundation of modern fandom spaces and shipping communities and its about time we went back to our roots and remembered our history.

That said, it does make me sad that anti propaganda has worked so well that people are gravitating away from certain labels because they're scared of how it'll be perceived.