People are so “morally superior” (/sar) for not taking a side that it’s actually making them look more morally ignorant than anything else. You can’t just “not take a side” when someone does something bad to the other side as a cop out to prevent people from attacking you. Because that’s essentially all it is. People just don’t want to say directly that the antis in this situation did something wrong to proshippers so they don’t get attacked for “defending proshippers”.
If someone killed a person in cold blood, you can’t say “well I think both sides are at fault here”. If someone does something unjustifiably bad, you can’t blame both sides for those actions. There’s a victim and an abuser here, don’t blame the victim for something the abuser did. They aren’t equal parties in this situation, like at all.
You don’t need a reason to make art. This doesn’t even solely apply to dark art. Go write that found family Alvin and the Chipmunks self insert fanfiction if that’s what really makes you happy. If you create as a coping mechanism, you don’t have to publicly delve into any horrible backstory or thing you’re living through in order to justify any of your creations. You don’t even have to tell people it’s a coping mechanism, that’s your business. You don’t need anyone’s approval to make art, no justifying of anything necessary.
The two most culturally important things from the past few years are Friday by Rebecca Black because we learned we like hating things more than we like liking them and Cookie Clicker cause we figured out the only reason people play video games is to watch the numbers go up and since then we’ve just been applying those lessons to new and better incarnations of those two things.
I’ve thought about this post every few weeks for the better part of a decade. continues to have aged terrifyingly well
antis are always like “well we wouldnt care if you didnt promote it”and im half tempted to go “show me a post by a proshipper that EXPLICITLY SAYS “pedophillia in real life is good”. go on. oh wait you cant cause it hasnt happened”i do see a shit ton of antis promoting abuse by STALKING, HARASSMENT, DOXXING, VICTIM BLAMING, AND SUIBAITING.not so much of proshippers promoting actual real life bad things.-Joey from @antiproshipping
Its another antiship strawman argument.
They invent proshipper boogeymen that aren’t real, to fight against.
anyway,
ex-antis deserve love and support. you are always welcome on this blog, wherever you’ve been a proshipper for years now, or just recently got out of the anti community.
I’m proud of you for recognizing your bad behavior and changing for the better. I’m proud of you for getting out of such a dangerous and toxic community. I love you all, stay safe. and remember, you belong in our community. you deserve your own space in it. you are wonderful and valid, don’t let anyone try to exclude you. ❤️