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So because I’ve been posting some things that are anti-censorship/kink shaming I’ve been looking up what other people have been saying about it and I’ve been seeing this term “proship” but I haven’t got a clear answer on what it means. Does it stand for problematic shipping? Or is it pro as in I am pro X thing? As in I am for this thing? And what sort of shipping is considered pro-shipping? Does the fact I’m into Fatal Romantic Vore count as “proshipping”? Or does the fact I’m generally using my own characters mean it can’t count cause it’s not “shipping” in the traditional fanfiction sense? Or is the fact that Soft Vore is physically impossible a disqualification? I’m guessing cannibalism would be considered proship as would dub-con or BDSM since it’s illegal to even practice in some places and it often simulates slavery which is itself illegal. I also saw age disputes so I’m thinking shipping kids even innocently is probably right out…Owl House and Gravity Falls fans are in trouble. Or is it just shipping older folk with the underage? I saw one age gap where they were only a decade apart and both adults get called a proship which isn’t illegal as far as I’m aware, It’s a pretty vague term even if I use the definition of “any ship that’s illegal” especially cause the root words used make it sound like something more benign you think it’d be call Illegal Ship or Crime Ship though the latter sounds like Bonnie and Clyde. Anyway I’m not going to stop killing my characters off in the name of a fetish. So the actual definition doesn’t really matter to me cause even if it applied to me I wouldn’t be changing my ways or adopting the term as mine. Cause it’s linguistically ambiguous and feels like a buzzword. Not to mention if you depicted an abusive relationship as a bad thing would that still count towards this buzzword? Who decides what’s a fetishised unhealthy fictional relationship and what’s a unhealthy unhealthy fictional relationship? Again I’m not turning over a new leaf anytime soon. But as someone with a vore fetish I can tell you right now that not every instance of Predatory or Cannibalistic behaviour I write is meant to get me or the audience off. Sometimes a spade is just a spade even if the person writing it romanticises the thing in fiction that does not mean they don’t recognise the real thing as an aberration or even that they can’t see it that way in other fiction or write it that way in their own work. Naturally it depends on the person and the fiction. But fetishes are very rarely so strong as to desensitise the fetishist to the real world consequences. There are people who are that desensitised but those people generally try to recreate their fetish in reality rather than playing around in works of fiction. So if you’re judging what’s a proship based on who has a fetish that’s a flawed method of reasoning. And you shouldn’t be just forbidding the depiction of abusive or unhealthy relationships wholesale. Because that way lies not having an antagonist because you think someone might mimic them over the hero.