words-of-holly:

In light of certain reblogs to this account, I feel like I should clear something up for people who might be questioning or thinking some things about me.

In my description, I use the term “ship and let ship,” which means I don’t care what your favorite pairings are, or what your headcanons are, or what your favorite characters are, etc. You can like whatever you want in fiction; it’s fiction, after all, and we’re not responsible for other people’s inability to separate that from their own reality.

Pro-shippers use this term in a similar fashion. Now, while the term “pro-ship” in and of itself means anti-harassment and anti-censorship in fiction, there is a largely negative connotation surrounding the term due to the amount of community members who are openly into or who support paraphilias. Therefore, I do not like to consider myself pro-ship, because I do not want to be associated with a label that will warrant nothing but hate despite whether or not I fall into that category.

All in all, pro-shippers just want to be left alone so they can enjoy their fictional worlds in their own way. Not all of them condone paraphilias or rape fantasies or abuse or anything else that might be seen as “problematic” in the eyes of fandom. What they stand for is what the old fandoms stood for; you do your thing, they do their thing, and if you don’t agree, then you simply move on. You don’t harass or try to tell someone what content they can or cannot produce. That is censorship and will lead to more problems in the future rather than fix anything.

I believe in letting people enjoy whatever they please in a fictional setting where no real person will be harmed. If this means someone writes about non-consensual situations or other forms of abuse, then that is perfectly fine. The majority of writers or artists do this as a coping mechanism to deal with their own trauma. We are not romanticizing your trauma by dealing with our own.

If this stance makes you unfollow or block me, then I wish you all the best.

Again, I do not label myself as a pro-shipper because of the stigma around it and because of the content a lot of users in that community produce. I simply do not care if your opinions differ from mine and will not waste my energy attacking someone over a piece of fiction.

Remember: fiction only has the power to affect reality because we make it so; if you cannot separate your fictional fantasies from your own reality, then that is your problem and is not the content creator’s responsibility.

This all being said, this blog is a safe place for pro-shippers so long as you do not attempt to introduce paraphilia into my space. You can do whatever you want on your own blog, and I will block and blacklist tags as I must, but do not bring it to me.