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With regard to a self-ship imagine ask that we got that framed F/O’s actions explicitly with the word “abuse”–
basically as soon as you bring the word “abuse” in to describe a toxic relationship (be it self ship or otherwise) it breaks kayfabe for me.
Sadism is romantic.
Discipline is romantic.
Fighting each other is romantic.
An aloof nature is romantic.
Fucked up expressions of love are romantic.
A twisted and toxic relationship is romantic.
Abuse is horrifying.
Abuse implies that all parties are not on board with what’s happening.
The implicit fantasy in our villainous self-ship posting is that what is happening between F/O-sama and selfship-chan is basically un-negotiated BDSM.
It is a relationship, toxic or not, that all parties are enjoying, whether or not they have explicitly consented, and whether or not they express that enjoyment in a typical way.
It doesn’t HAVE to be negotiated because it’s imaginary and in the imaginary scenario F/O-sama knows what selfship-chan really wants and needs, and selfship-chan doesn’t have to endure the mortal horror of expressing themselves in words to get what they want.
“Abuse” is not a fantasy word for us. We respect that it can be for other people, but it’s not a word we will use when writing romantic fantasy, or a way in which we will frame toxic romance.
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