“why is nobody reblogging my art đ„ș” idk cause either youve got a passive aggressive dni, outright death threats everyone on your blog, or your just a dick in general
Funny how when you shrink your audience, your audience shrinks. đ€·ââïž
“proship dni” on artwork– good, your art is unappealing and now I don’t feel bad for not reblogging it out of obligation from it being my favorite character or ship.
And then they get pissy when nobody reblogs their art. Like dude thats on you (general you)
Sometimes the specific way some fancops talk about “proships DNI” exits the realm of sounding like enforcing a social boundary, and enters the realm of sounding like a child on the playground screaming:
“EWWW!! EWW!! COOTIES!! DONT TOUCH ME THEYVE GOT COOTIES!!!”
[Twitter thread by Angry Black Changeling that reads: Low-key think any queer adult with DNI boundaries around âpro-shippersâ ought to do a detox consisting of education on queer history especially with respect to the fight against censorship + purity culture, and reckon with the way that – and fandom [especially terrible hot takes within spaces centred around fiction] – has furthered a surveillance culture where treating real world people like they are characters with a visible level of morality you can instantly assess + react to is the norm.
Itâs not the norm. Itâs purity culture at work.
Youâre constantly surveilling yourself and others, and creating a level of psychological unsafety that will not keep you safe.
And letâs be serious for a sec, we know that abusers donât come wearing âproshipperâ badges.
Stats inform that they exist everywhere, and most commonly in heteronormative cultural blindspots such as family, schools, churches, institutions.
There could be overlap, but itâs a serious logical conflation to think itâs the 20 something with heart eyes over a fictional age gap you need to look out for.
Thatâs not to increase paranoia, but point out logical fallacies in that âshippingâ rhetoric.
Tbh on a personal level itâs so concerning because itâs so indicative of so many methods of coercive control: from cishetropatriarchy, to racism, to class based oppression – but itâs insidious in the way itâs creating pockets of surveillance within already marginalised + vulnerable communities who seem unable to realise that it functions on an insidious level that amounts to *thought control* + tokenistic morality.
Itâs the opposite of safe.
It can be actually dangerous.
Itâs doing the work of oppressors freely + willingly. /End thread]
Fandom has furthered a surveillance culture where treating real world people like they are characters with a visible level of morality you can instantly assess + react to is the norm.
Itâs not the norm. Itâs purity culture at work.
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