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I really adore the proship darkshippers/darkfic creators who go out of the canon and interpret characters however the hell they want to. The ones who are feral about it and either make an already villainous character worse or make a canonically heroic or innocent character batshit insane. I'm saying all of this for a reason, it's fun and interesting, and I'm actually really interested in knowing what you guys do to make your favorite characters or ships worse too, if you do that, that is. This is a safe space to rant about all the interesting and creative thoughts you have about that; the what ifs, the complexities, the alternate universes, the dark gruesome gut wrenchingly vile scenarios, etc; I'd like to hear all about it. No matter if it 'fits canon' or not. It's so cool to see how people interpret characters compared to their canon sources. There's no limit to what your mind can come up with and I want you all to have the space to jot it down and tell someone about it. The creativity and imagination you guys hold will always be appreciated whether you know it or not.
Also, if you're a proshipper who doesn't indulge in dark fiction feel free to still do the same with this post, it absolutely does not need to be dark and gruesome to be written and expressed. I'll be interested either way to see your own interpretations of things. Make them worse, make them better, change them into something completely different, put them in any scenario you want- good, bad, sweet and fluffy or whump and pure angst or a complex mix of both, turn them into a completely unrecognizable celestial being even though they're canonically just some average joe, have fun and do whatever you want forever.
Hi proship darkshippers who struggle with moral OCD, just wanted to remind you that your fictional ships and interests do NOT make you a bad person what-so-ever. You are still a good person and the fact you don't go out of your way to harass people over their own fictional interests, the fact you don't wish harm on real people, is just one of many reasons why you ARE in fact a good person! It's okay to like dark media, it's okay to want to explore said media through art and writing and etc, your interest in these fictional ideas does not reflect your morals in real life situations. Repeat after me: You aren't harming anyone, you are not hurting any real, living person, by being interested in dark media. It's okay, you're okay, I promise. <3
Hi sweets! Just here to remind you that all of your ships are 100% awesome and valid and super cool no matter what the dynamic is! I love seeing the dynamics dark/comshippers come up with, the scenarios that can come to play and the creativity of it all, I think your mind is absolutely brilliant, don't ever let anyone take your creativity away!
I feel like this relates to something much bigger.
I feel like Proshippers need to realize that just because someone likes something doesn't mean they're proship. The only two things required to be a Proshipper are:
1. Anti-Censorship
2. Anti-Harassment
That's it. That's all you need.
Someone can like lolisho and not be proship because they'll harass people.
Someone can like non-con and not be proship because they think fanfic of underage characters shouldn't exist.
Someone can selfship and not be proship because they'll judge Proshippers who also self ship and gate keep.
Selfshipping started in the Proship community, yes. But everything that happened in fandom started with the Proship community because Proship used to be the fandom standard.
"proship DNI!!!"
What kind of proship? Yumeship? RPF? Selfship RPF? Darkship? Shipping in general?
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hot take of my own. i do not believe selfshipping is proshipping because most folks in the community are ficto, therefore making selfshipping a byproduct of human sexuality and not something that can be claimed by an ideology such as proshipping. people have been, without a term for it itself, been selfshipping as early as the written language was made. unfortunately though last time i said that on my main account, i was harassed and told i wasn't a real proshipper for having a different opinion on this (because obviously, you cannot disagree with your own community. sarcasm.)