DISCLAIMER: THIS SHIT IS OVER A YEAR OLD. I DREDGED IT UP BECAUSE I WAS PART OF IT AT THE TIME. THIS IS NOT ACTIVE/CURRENT DISCOURSE
so basically in feb 2022 there was a “callout” on online artist captainhowdie – popular for their webcomic ranfren – written up by someone who was a ranfren fan who i’m pretty sure was making a fanzine of ranfren.
the callout, where this fan threatened howdie for an apology (“or else” style) boiled down to: this artist who has been active since the 2000s has historically made poor-taste jokes; unknowingly played into racist tropes; and most egregiously it seemed, created sexual art of and endorsed sexual art of their “underage”* oc
the fan turned their ranfren based twitter into a countdown where they played hangman with captainhowdie’s (likely to be -) deadname, giving howdie a timer to come forward and apologise for their ‘actions’ or whatever. when howdie didn’t give them what they deemed an apology, they released their entire full name onto twitter and iirc tumblr. they also doxxed howdie’s home address, which wound up being the wrong person (shocker, huh?), but this is about the name thing lol
*the “underage” oc in question shifts between being a teenager to an adult man in the series multiple times, thought that should be clarified
Okay so I am a proshipper and I am cross tagging because I want an actual discussion. If you are going to be an ass, I will be an ass right back at you
Antis, I want you to actually explain to me how comshipping is harmful. I want an actual explanation because I am, genuinely, confused
If you aren’t going to respond to my question then don’t bother interacting, just block me
I think most of them won’t actually know what comshipping is… you might want to define your terms… proship vs comship…
