Please, please, please don’t ask us, especially me (😼🔪) what our opinion on this is, there will be a bar fight and someone will throw us out a window.
Our opinion–not on MUDs specifically but in general life– is that people have the right to define their identities however they want to define them, and other people are free to want to interact with those people or not based on those identities.
I/we have serious medical related, and practice-of-psychiatry related trauma and conditioning that renders us incapable of rationally discussing behavior through the lens of establishment defined disorder.
This new term I discovered is such a breath of fresh air. Peacefic, coined by @peacefiction.
God, yes, thank you. Holy crap.
Please, if people want to use this, use it right?? I like my labels to mean something. I can’t comfortably call myself proship anymore because it doesn’t signify the same thing to literally anyone. I have to reasonably assume that there’s a significant amount of people who would genuinely think I’m just calling myself a MAP (I’m not -_-). Like, that’s just how it is now. I can’t change that. That is the reality of how that label is perceived.
I might start going with neutral/neuship/neufic anyway because I’ve um, discovered stuff about myself (and about antis) recently. And at least the word neutral is like, meant to be vague? That’s fine?
The peacefic ideals are the most important to me. If I tell someone I’m peacefic proship, it should immediately disqualify the connotation of the creep who supports literally everything, even exploitative fiction, and the label combo should also keep the “fiction doesn’t equal reality 1:1” thing.
But again I still might not even use anymore proship synonyms for myself because they’re going to get fucked by the same problem where my label is meant to give people a quick idea of my beliefs, but it fails to do that and puts a target on me.
Not that I’m the center of the universe or anything. I’m kinda just ranting to the void.
Also this is like completely a shower thought, so feel free to disregard it as me being obsessed with labels and compartments actually, like that’s true regardless if I have a point or not lmao—
Why haven’t I been calling the types of antis and the types of proshippers I really REALLY don’t like “rad-shippers”? Like, we already have this kinda tier-list I’ve been seeing of inclus, radinclus, and then radqueer. And those terms make sense to me.
So yeah, like…
Proshippers that can’t fucking handle criticism of media or how we engage with it, who support explicit rpf of minors, who are free speech absolutists, who jump onto any post that possibly states a dislike for their kink and antagonizes the OP, who think it’s okay to trigger antis on purpose, etc…. rad-proshippers.
Antis who think depiction = endorsement no matter what, who think every kink and ship is a direct line to your most raw beliefs and intentions, who think having taboo fictional interests like incest ships or whatev makes you a morally reprehensible person, who reject critical thinking about how and why a story may be insensitive, and/or who think it’s okay to harass people for their tagged, properly filtered, or private dark smut… rad-antis.
I dunno! I think it fits. Hell, even ignoring any mention of harassment: I’m so sick of antis who push the narrative that you must NECESSARILY by morally bankrupt and/or predatory for having a rape kink or something, and I’m so sick of proshippers who jump out of their skin at the mere mention of criticism/responsibility and shut down discussions of it.
We’re just weirdos on the internet! Just because one person says “I think things should be like this” doesn’t mean it WILL be like that if you don’t Challenge™ them, and also it doesn’t even necessarily mean that person wants the authority to make all their opinions enforceable! I dunno man.
