I’m having a serious case of the vapors right now about an instructional manual about how to use toxic relationships to add drama to a story but “not in a proship way. ” its sooo good. (by which I mean batshit.) making a relationship toxic in your story is not proshipping, it’s in-depth storytelling. -true obviously, especially because proshipping isn’t a word. don’t actively ship it, don’t think it’s okay, just use that relationship to add to your story -because the reader will be a mind reader and understand the pure intent of the writer they’re your characters and you can do what you want with them, as long as you agree that what happened to them is wrong and don’t glorify it then dude you’re good -actions don’t matter, only being a good person in my original characters’ story, there are some extremely toxic relationships, not just romantic but platonic as well and that’s okay to put in my story because I don’t say “aww they’re so cute together,” I say “I want to give (victim) all the hugs and happiness and kick (abuser) in the fucking face” -in this essay I will explain why my problematic fiction is not actually problematic because I personally am not a problem I don’t glorify those relationships, I use them to add depth to characters and build conflicts – they’re part of the story, and just because there’s an unhealthy relationship does not make your book a fetishization of abuse. there’s a very big difference between the two. -clearly (deep sarcasm) “To all of the baby writers – if you want a toxic relationship as a part of your story, as a conflict in your plot, just remember that difference.” -following these instructions, I accidentally microwaved my phone “so, proship dni, obviously” -snrk “Long story short, write what you want.” -wait, is this an anti blog or a proship blog? The writer of Silence of the Lambs doesn’t support c4nnibalism, the writer of Chains doesn’t support sl4very/r4cism, the writer of Lolita doesn’t support p3doph1lia, the writer of Boy in the Striped Pajamas isn’t a n4zi, the writer of Holes doesn’t support child l4bor, and I (the writer of my book) don’t support manipulation. Just because you put abuse in your book doesn’t mean you support abuse. Just please don’t promote your conflicts as a “good thing” and you should be fine.“ love y’all, stay safe