Ships aren’t food, they’re not exercise, they’re not even a nonfiction book or a classic novel. A steady diet of LGBT+ ships with no age or power gap won’t make you emotionally or mentally any healthier. It won’t teach you about how actual relationships work and it won’t prevent you from getting into an unhealthy relationship.
Unhealthy ships won’t ruin you. They won’t corrupt you, they won’t destroy your understanding of actual healthy relationships or erode your morality.
Your fictional diet isn’t your actual diet. There’s no organic vegan gluten-free ship that will fix a single goddamn thing.
Relax. Enjoy yourself. Read whatever fiction fascinates you, tantalizes you, engages you. The content doesn’t matter much for your health, but the joy it brings you might.
Exactly. I mean, a lot of people enjoy L x Light (myself included, to an extent), even though that relationship would be, if not illegal, certainly unethical in real life and unhealthy besides. Then again, so are a lot of actions and relationships in fiction; we read about and watch a lot of things we’d never do and hopefully would recognize as bad in real life. We all have “problematic faves” and whatnot; it doesn’t mean you are a bad person. Nor does shipping a more…wholesome pairing (like Matt x Mello) necessarily make you a good or better person.
Hey!! Shut the fuck up!! Y’all are fuckin gross for saying it’s ok to ship pedophilia, incest and abuse!! Stop trying to normalize it because that’s fucking sick! You’re disrespecting CSA/incest/abuse victims too which is fucking horrible, someone’s trauma isn’t your “cute fetish tumblr ship uwu” so fuck off and choke!!
So, I wouldn’t normally bother, but I’m curious:
My blog is full of messages from victims thanking me for supporting them and the ships they use to process their trauma and their feelings. Should they all choke?
Fandom is full of people who’ve been shipping incest pairings for 10-20 years and are still staunchly against incest in real life, thus suggesting that the ships do not normalize incest. Should they all still choke?
A lot of people who consume fiction (including shipping fiction!) about trauma are also the people who volunteer to help actual victims. They also, like most of fandom, are those most likely to be victims themselves and least likely to be perpetrators. I have a close friend who ships starker and also volunteers at a women’s and children’s shelter in her city. Should she choke for her fictional ship despite the ways she helps real people?
Surveys consistently show that pro-shippers and anti-shippers have approximately the same number of victims on both sides. Should half of all the victims in this discussion choke, because they enjoy fiction that you think is nasty?
Which is more important, real people or fictional ones?
Right now this is just a job. If I advance any higher in this company, this would be my career. And, uh, if this were my career, I’d have to throw myself in front of a train.
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