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.
Hello, yes, I would like one vegan, gluten-free, soy-free, raw, non-GMO, organic, fat-free, low-carb ship, please
The only way these ships can hurt you is if you yourself cannot separate fiction from real life, and cannot understand the difference between a fictional relationship and the actual work that goes into a healthy real life relationship.
And that? That’s not a ship problem. That’s a you problem.
i’d be really curious to know what percent of queerbaiting is
a) an intentional marketing scheme to stir interest in the project and attract certain fanbases (lgbtq people and young women) vs.
b) members of the creative team genuinely wanting to write queer characters but the corporate side of things force them to tone it down but they still leave little hints vs.
c) they legitimately did not know how gay something would come across
The answer:
A is 100%. Because B and C are not queerbaiting. The literal meaning and definition of it is A.
Honestly the Hero Academia fandom on tumblr dot com is a special sort of shit show and I … really don’t know how it’s taken this long for it to start reaching critical mass. And rest assured, it is fast approaching dangerous levels of toxicity and that’s pretty damn sad. Fandom spaces never used to be as divided as they currently are. Just take a look at old fandoms, even here on this hell site they function in an entirely different way. These stupid “do not interact” banners and icons that take a pointed shit on pride flags are particularly harmful and downright offensive to the people who suffered for those flags. They actually mean something to them and you’re out here essentially appropriating a meaningful symbol to the community and bastardizing everything it’s supposed to stand for by pasting your hateful rhetoric all over it? Vile.
Death threats, doxxing, harassment, stalking, very serious allegations being tossed around like confetti, vindictive slander, falsified police reports – and all for what? A ship you don’t like? A character you can’t stand? Y’all are absolutely psychotic if you legitimately believe for one second that any of this fandom shit actually matters, in your life or someone else’s life or in the real world, and there is not a single thing you can say that would validate this behavior in anyway. You’re trolling, but hiding behind the shield of social justice and claiming that you’re just looking out for other people.
You’re not. Plain and simple. You just like being contrarian for the sake of it and anyone who doesn’t agree with you is treated like less than dirt – regardless of their life experiences or traumas – and you do everything in your power to bully them into either siding with you or hiding in fear. It’s pathetic and wholly reprehensible. I can’t wait for the day that you anti’s grow up a little, gain some real world experience and get some true knowledge under your belt only for you to look back and say … damn I was a right cunt. I really wish someone would’ve knocked my fucking teeth out for carrying on like that. Because it will happen. Trust me on that. You will assuredly come to regret this behavior somewhere down the line and I just pray that you don’t destroy too many lives before you get to that point. I don’t know who to blame specifically for this unseemly state of affairs in the fandom circle (and it’s not just Hero Academia, yet it does stand out as being particularly awful) but I do know one thing. Current Tumblr is a cesspool of hate and anger and negativity that would honestly rival even that of 4chan in its hay day.
At least 4chan anons revel in their nastiness, y’all are just sitting in a pile of your own shit and insisting that you’re the cleanest person to ever walk this earth. Sad.
antis: force victim to out themselves and go into detail about their trauma
antis: use outdated bullshit articles to justify their “fiction affects reality!!!!!!” bullshit
antis: harass minors who ship things they dont like and tell them to kill themselves
antis: actively suicide bait teens who are already suicidal as it is
antis: slander people by calling them pedophiles, rapists, or abuse apologists with absolutely zero evidence or correlation to the topic at hand
antis: leave innocent people traumatized and prone to panic attacks due to severe harassment
antis: their biggest problem is people shipping things they dont like like how fucking privileged are you
antis: harass fujoshis when anti-fujoshism is rooted in nothing but misogyny
antis: turn victims into a complete fucking joke by comparing fictional ships to real life abuse
antis: post triggering content such as gore and emetophobia in ship tags then get mad when you call them out
antis: tell victims who disagree with them that they deserved their trauma
antis: claim to care about victims but force them to cope ship in private, tell them they know better than their professional therapists, assume they ship “problematic” ships as a coping mechanism when they very well could ship it just cause they like it, and insist that victims are harming themselves by exposure to such content even though it’s been proven that exposure is the most effective method of recovery
antis: literally put BLADES IN A FANARTISTS COOKIES AND ATTEMPT TO FUCKING MURDER HER OVER A FICTIONAL FUCKING SHIP OF AN AGED UP CHARACTER WITH ANOTHER ADULT CHARACTER
antis: lol why do people hate us lol we’re just normal people uwu uwu uwu in real life people will murder you for shipping weird stuff uwu uwu uwu totally lol lol :))
“Anti-fujoshism is rooted in nothing but misogyny”
Don’t forget racism too. Rewriting the definition of a word from a race and culture you’re not part of to fit your agenda and speaking over the native speakers who call you out on that behavior is pretty fucking racist.
reblog if you’re pro-shipping because all ideas can be safely explored in fiction so long as the audience is properly warned. anything can be shipped and it’s never a problem
“EXCEPT -“ no. listen. anything. literally any fucking thing
Idk what people hope to achieve by telling me that my tastes or content I draw is bad or gross
like, am I supposed to change what I’m doing and how I’m feeling because someone who didn’t even have the guts to message me with their name attached said so?
Blacklist is a thing, you can always unfollow or even block, and most importantly: if you don’t like the content you’re seeing, maybe use it as inspo to start drawing what you DO wanna see. It motivated me many years ago to start drawing and still motivates me now
Can we please end the notion that a ship has to be healthy for people to enjoy it? It really doesn’t. Shipping is not about what’s the purest and healthiest, it’s about what people enjoy.
KayjsCage 
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