That One Theory

roblox fan proshipper culture is seeing all the devs getting mad about people shipping/drawing nsfw of their characters and being one of very few people who don't agree with them about it? buddy you put characters somewhere the public can see them people are gonna do what they want with em.... by posting them online you allowed that to happen. theres people who get banned from official discords/GAMES for being proship or drawing nsfw its crazy out here

It's great that more artists can put their work out there to be seen, but it also comes with the consequence of most of them being unprepared for the full nature of fandom.

“stop romanticizing this ship. it’s toxic and abusive 🤬 people who ship them romanticize abuse🤬” the only thing people will take from your post is that your brain hasn’t developed well enough for you to separate fiction from reality

“fiction affects reality 🤬” by this logic, Hannibal fans are cannibals and people who like horror / slasher films are murderers

“shipping them is insensitive and triggering to abuse victims🤬” by this logic, Squid Game is insensitive and triggering to murder victims and their families, and everything is, one way or another, insensitive and triggering to some people

"proshippers like fucked up things but can't handle being told to die?"

well, yes! i don't fear fiction, i fear for my safety and wellbeing, and knowing people want me to die irl is unnerving! how does this not make sense to people? what, incest and age gaps are too far, but wishing death upon people is okay? liking fictional noncon is bad and insensitive, but telling people they deserved their trauma is better?

PV really didn't need to have a whole toxic yaoi arc, tell Shadow Milk they were "meant to be", agree with Shmilk that he's his, and merge their God damn souls together but go off king. Love wins or smthn

"are you a proshitter?" yeah i think shitting is good. you probably should go to the bathroom atleast once

I can NEVER take antis who use terms like "kiddie diddler" "pdf file" "drake's cousin" etc to sugarcoat the words "child abuser" seriously

imagine being so disconnected from reality you directly compare a sex trafficker to fan writers and artists, go rip off a toenail

" shipping incest is not a good coping mechanism!! " oh its not a coping mechanism im just a pervert

Why do "irl kiddos" aka kids seeking to be groomed use the shota and shotacon tags

SHOTA IS A FICTIONAL TERM, ABOUT FICTIONAL TROPES

(I'm not gonna block tags like "irl kiddo" or alike tho cuz any time I see one of those posts I report it, I know they will probs just make a new one but at least it slows or slightly prevents them getting groomed, and I also know it just upsets me to see those posts, but knowing I'm helping even the slightest to keep kids away from harm makes that worth it)

☹︎ DNI: Radqueers, transX, IRL kiddos OR supporters of any of these ☹︎

if, posting on tumblr, you censor words like "pedophilia", "suicide", "grooming", "gore", et cetera tiktok-style, i will never take you seriously. go back to the ditch of an online space you crawled out of, or grow up.

on the note, i'm fed up with the inability to filter out shblr because you fuckers have a thousand tags of that sort.

The Three Laws of Fandom

If you wish to take part in any fandom, you need to accept and respect these three laws.

If you aren’t able to do that, then you need to realise that your actions are making fandom unsafe for creators. That you are stifling creativity.

Like vaccination, fandom only works if everyone respects these rules. Creators need to be free to make their fanart, fanfics and all other content without fear of being harassed or concern-trolled for their creative choices, no matter whether you happen to like that content or not.

The First Law of Fandom

Don’t Like; Don’t Read (DL;DR)

It is up to you what you see online. It is not anyone else’s place to tell you what you should or should not consume in terms of content; it is not up to anyone else to police the internet so that you do not see things you do not like. At the same time, it is not up to YOU to police fandom to protect yourself or anyone else, real or hypothetical.

There are tools out there to help protect you if you have triggers or squicks. Learn to use them, and to take care of your own mental health. If you are consuming fan-made content and you find that you are disliking it - STOP.

The Second Law of Fandom

Your Kink Is Not My Kink (YKINMK)

Simply put, this means that everyone likes different things. It’s not up to you to determine what creators are allowed to create. It’s not up to you to police fandom. 

If you don’t like something, you can post meta about it or create contrarian content yourself, seek to convert other fans to your way of thinking.  

But you have no right to say to any creator “I do not like this, therefore you should not create it. Nobody should like this. It should not exist.”

It’s not up to you to decide what other people are allowed to like or not like, to create or not to create. That’s censorship. Don’t do it.

The Third Law of Fandom

Ship And Let Ship (SALS)

Much (though not all) fandom is about shipping. There are as many possible ships as there are fans, maybe more. You may have an OTP (One True Pairing), you may have a NOTP, that pairing that makes you want to barf at the very thought of its existence.

It’s not up to you to police ships or to determine what other people are allowed to ship. Just because you find that one particular ship problematic or disgusting, does not mean that other people are not allowed to explore its possibilities in their fanworks.

You are free to create contrarian content, to write meta about why a particular ship is repulsive, to discuss it endlessly on your private blog with like-minded persons.

It is not appropriate to harass creators about their ships, it is not appropriate to demand they do not create any more fanworks about those ships, or that they create fanwork only in a manner that you deem appropriate.

These three laws add up to the following:

You are not paying for fanworks content, and you have no rights to it other than to choose to consume it, or not consume it. If you do choose to consume it, do not then attack the creator if it wasn’t to your taste. That’s the height of bad manners.

Be courteous in fandom. It makes the whole experience better for all of us.