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blackheartbiohazards:

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.