Take a look at this person who is saying the quiet part out loud.
It’s not that they think proshippers cause harm, it’s that they’re weird.
Not only does this person think that being weird is bad, they think you shouldn’t be allowed to be weird near other people.
on the weirdos website?!
I’m hollering they really said “I can’t (and refuse to) fathom any reason why someone might think or do something I wouldn’t” oh boy
I’m not repeating myself, so let me just add these right here
This is just such a blatant self report that I can’t help but cackle madly over it. They’re just bullies, plain and simple, and they use the “safety of the children” argument as a shield to make their bullying seem acceptable.
“but why the hell would you do that for any other reason”
We’ve… we’ve given them the reasons. We’ve explained this shit over and over and over again for like eight years…
(also here they are once again associating proship strictly with minor/adult ships when it covers sooo much more than just that. Real annoying for us proshippers who don’t actually like that particular brand of “problematic” ship. Oh, wait, right, it’s because we don’t harass people who do like it. Sorry, forgot anti logic for a minute there. >_>)
Hell, annoying for us proshippers who don’t really like problematic ships at all and are just here because we want fandom to go back to people minding their own damn business.
Being a system is being “more than one” in some way.
Disordered? You can use the term plural or system.
Non-disordered? You can use the term plural or system.
Trauma-formed? You can use the term plural or system.
Non-traumagenic? You can use the term plural or system.
Created, intentionally or not? You can use the term plural or system.
Median/not completely separate? You can use the term plural or system.
Purely psychological?
You can use the term plural or system.
Spiritual?
You can use the term plural or system.
Fictive-heavy?
You can use the term plural or system.
Non-human sysmates?
You can use the term plural or system.
Two folks only?
You can use the term plural or system.
1000+ folks?
You can use the term plural or system.
Formed when you were little?
You can use the term plural or system.
Formed when you were older?
You can use the term plural or system.
Figured it out via tumblr or tiktok?
You can use the term plural or system.
Literally the only requirement is being “more than one”. That’s how it’s been since the 1990s. The DSM/ICD/etc requirements are only for clinical cases. It isn’t the be all and end all for ALL systems, and science doesn’t prove ANYTHING about systems beyond “yeah there’s something going on here”.
Be kind to systems or plural folk different from you. The boots some of you are licking want to stomp on all of us, your system included.
problems i didn’t expect to encounter while reading homestuck #42069: all my self loathing internal monologues have begun to sound like karkat. which is great because it snaps me out of them really fast, but terrible because there’s only so many times you can call yourself a “flagrant waste of air with a borderline masochistic determination to park his foot in his gaping maw and chow down like it’s a five-course feast served to a man starved for the taste of total irrevocable humiliation” or something before you start giggling uncontrollably to yourself with no possible way to explain why to any concerned observers.
