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Imagine genuinely believing–enough to say out loud– that you believe that cruelty and emotional torture directed at strangers solves problems and should be encouraged.
I find it very hard to put myself in those shoes.
It’s so funny when antis use the “endorsement” argument, because they really do pick and choose which pieces of fiction “endorses” something and which don’t, based off of their personal comfort level with the themes.
If you said that a piece of fictional media from a serial killers perspective or a first person shooter game “endorsed murder” you’d get absolutely ripped apart, and for good reason too. Because it doesn’t matter whether the media frames something as a positive. You as a reader are expected to understand that hurting sentient beings is wrong lol.
So, in the argument of “endorsement” it becomes, that “Murder is never endorsed!!” Because they’re comfortable with fictional violence, and it is free to be depicted in whatever framing it wants to.
That changes when it comes to other taboo themes, especially when it is sexual. Because they’re uncomfortable with the taboo theme, or with sex in general. They demand that the theme be depicted and framed in a way that makes them comfortable (in a way that very clearly denounces it) or it is considered an “endorsement.”
here is a reminder for all my fellow proshippers that you never have to feel obligated to tell people why you like a particular ship. you don’t need to disclose your trauma to someone else as explanation to why you ship what you ship. never let someone else make you feel disgusting because they cannot think further than their asses and realise fiction is fiction.
current favorite ship dynamic is “they are literally the worst for each other, the power imbalance is comparable to a baby and a warlord. they make each other worse and it is all consuming in the most bitter way”