Emmet Benton from Jem and the Holograms, when he kicks off the series by dying in the basement from overwork while trying to re-create his dead wife as an AI.
If antis were being honest when they said âbut weâre okay with depictions as long as you make it clear that itâs badâ, then the one thing that would determine if a writer or artist received hate would be how the Problematicâ˘ď¸ subject matter was depicted.
The reason I donât believe them when they say that is because, from what Iâve observed, this is not the case. It doesnât matter how you portray the subject. If you go out of your way to write the ship as something horrifying, you get hate just like the people who write the ship as fluffy and cute do.
From what Iâve observed, the only determining factor in whether a ship gets hate is whether or not antis have heard of it and how disgusted they are by it when they do. Thatâs it. Doesnât matter if your shock and disgust is the point. Doesnât matter if youâre not supposed to like it. What matters is that an anti found it upsetting. And that gets fanfic authors and fanartists harassed.
It also gets hate towards anyone who likes a series they donât like. Thereâs an anime called Happy Sugar Life. Itâs a horror series about a yandere lolicon and the child she kidnapped to live with her. Youâre not supposed to look at it and go âaw how cuteâ. Youâre supposed to look at it and go âholy shit can someone please rescue this child from the murder bitch?â. And itâs made more disturbing by how the little girl is too young to understand how bad her situation is, only that this nice lady is taking her to live with her and promising a happy life together and looking after her. Itâs all fucked up and thatâs the point. But how did I hear about this anime? From fucking antis complaining about it. Saying that itâs wrong and that nobody should watch it and itâs promoting child abuse. Which completely contradicts their claim that itâs okay if you portray it as a bad thing! Hereâs a perfectly good example of the exact kind of darkfic that antis say is fine and thereâs still antis shitting on it. Which tells me that it genuinely doesnât matter at all what anyone does when writing, or when picking which fictional couple to draw, it doesnât matter because itâs all disgusting to them.
So why do they even bother claiming thereâs an option? Two reasons if you ask me. 1) antis canât agree on whatâs âproshipâ and what isnât. One anti will ship something and another anti will call that ship âa proshipâ. Another anti will say itâs fine as long as you do x, y, and z, while another anti will say actually you need to do a, b, and c, and then a third will come along and say âjust donât write it at allâ. They canât agree but everything that even one anti thinks is bad will be used to justify harassment against the creator. They canât wrap their head around that tho, so they just assume every proshipper is doing exactly what they personally condemn. 2) they know theyâre lying, they just want a justification to harass people who write fics and draw art they donât like. Itâs entrapment. They make rules for you to play by and then punish you whether you play by them or not because what they really want is to frame themselves as morally superior to everyone who tries at all. Itâs a holier than thou shtick.
The only solution is to ignore them trying to claim anything will keep you safe from their bullshit and just write/draw what you want and use whatever resources are at your disposal to make them piss off if they start shit.
(Blue text because tumblr is bugged and I cannot read what Iâm typing if I donât change the color)
If antis were being honest when they said âbut weâre okay with depictions as long as you make it clear that itâs badâ, then the one thing that would determine if a writer or artist received hate would be how the Problematicâ˘ď¸ subject matter was depicted.
The reason I donât believe them when they say that is because, from what Iâve observed, this is not the case. It doesnât matter how you portray the subject. If you go out of your way to write the ship as something horrifying, you get hate just like the people who write the ship as fluffy and cute do.
From what Iâve observed, the only determining factor in whether a ship gets hate is whether or not antis have heard of it and how disgusted they are by it when they do. Thatâs it. Doesnât matter if your shock and disgust is the point. Doesnât matter if youâre not supposed to like it. What matters is that an anti found it upsetting. And that gets fanfic authors and fanartists harassed.
It also gets hate towards anyone who likes a series they donât like. Thereâs an anime called Happy Sugar Life. Itâs a horror series about a yandere lolicon and the child she kidnapped to live with her. Youâre not supposed to look at it and go âaw how cuteâ. Youâre supposed to look at it and go âholy shit can someone please rescue this child from the murder bitch?â. And itâs made more disturbing by how the little girl is too young to understand how bad her situation is, only that this nice lady is taking her to live with her and promising a happy life together and looking after her. Itâs all fucked up and thatâs the point. But how did I hear about this anime? From fucking antis complaining about it. Saying that itâs wrong and that nobody should watch it and itâs promoting child abuse. Which completely contradicts their claim that itâs okay if you portray it as a bad thing! Hereâs a perfectly good example of the exact kind of darkfic that antis say is fine and thereâs still antis shitting on it. Which tells me that it genuinely doesnât matter at all what anyone does when writing, or when picking which fictional couple to draw, it doesnât matter because itâs all disgusting to them.
So why do they even bother claiming thereâs an option? Two reasons if you ask me. 1) antis canât agree on whatâs âproshipâ and what isnât. One anti will ship something and another anti will call that ship âa proshipâ. Another anti will say itâs fine as long as you do x, y, and z, while another anti will say actually you need to do a, b, and c, and then a third will come along and say âjust donât write it at allâ. They canât agree but everything that even one anti thinks is bad will be used to justify harassment against the creator. They canât wrap their head around that tho, so they just assume every proshipper is doing exactly what they personally condemn. 2) they know theyâre lying, they just want a justification to harass people who write fics and draw art they donât like. Itâs entrapment. They make rules for you to play by and then punish you whether you play by them or not because what they really want is to frame themselves as morally superior to everyone who tries at all. Itâs a holier than thou shtick.
The only solution is to ignore them trying to claim anything will keep you safe from their bullshit and just write/draw what you want and use whatever resources are at your disposal to make them piss off if they start shit.
(Blue text because tumblr is bugged and I cannot read what Iâm typing if I donât change the color)
