what ships are considered proship?
When Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart was asked to describe his test for obscenity in 1964, he responded: “I know it when I see it.”
Types of ships that pro-censorship fans have attempted to label as objectionable “proships”:
- characters who are more than 2 years apart in age (power imbalance)
- boss x employee (power imbalance)
- unrelated characters who have referred to one another as siblings (incest)
- characters who have known one another since they were children (incest)
- enemies to lovers (abusive)
- characters who are playfully mean to one another (abusive)
- characters they personally feel have a “sibling” dynamic (incest)
- characters they personally feel have a “parent/child” dynamic (incest)
- ships where one character is autistic or disabled (pedophilia)
- ships where one character has a playful attitude (pedophilia)
- ships where one character is short and the other is tall (pedophilia)
- ships where one character is an 18-25 year old adult (pedophilia)
followers, please feel free to add to this list!
Here are some of my highlights over the years:
- shipping a bi woman with a man, when you could be shipping her with a lesbian (homophobia)
- shipping the fanon mlm ship instead of the canon mlm ship (homophobia)
- shipping characters with a 4 year age gap, because they met when the younger one was 17. (pedophilia)
- shipping a teenager with a character that has no canon age (pedophilia, even if you HC the other character as a teen.)
- Shipping a character popularly headcanoned as a lesbian with a man, when you don’t headcanon her as a lesbian (she’s a walking stereotype, no thanks!!) (homophobia)
- shipping a character with PSTD (power imbalance)
- Shipping two white characters together is racist if one of them is frequently also shipped with a person of color.
- shipping children, done in an entirely non-sexual manner. (pedophilia)
- writing smut of characters that are canonically 18, but weren’t when the show began (pedophillia)
- Shipping a character that one of your followers selfships with. (Infidelity)
- Writing POC characters being comforted by a white character in a hurt/comfort fic is racist and plays into the white saviour trope, regardless of how relevant race is to the plot.
- Shipping an ace character is aphobic to sex repulsed aces, even though not all aces are sex repulsed.
- shipping a white character with a PoC character is colonialism
- shipping characters with similar surnames is incest
- shipping characters with the same hair colour is incest “vibes”
- shipping any characters in a group of found family is incest
- shipping characters from a media property aimed at an under-18 audience is pedophilia
- shipping any character in a canon relationship with a non-canon partner is cheating
- shipping an ancient being currently contained in a (perceived as) teenagers body with anyone is pedophilia because the being is an adult, so cannot be shipped with minors, but the body is a minor’s so cannot be shipped with adults
- shipping a created being with their in-canon creator is incest
- shipping a cheerful character with a moody one is romanticising abuse
- shipping two characters who had a single argument is abuse
- shipping sentient cookies is pedophilia if one of them was baked earlier than the other
- any ship can be “morally” pedophilia if you perceive it as such
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