Ace of 💜s

my brother in christ you cannot be more wrong and I'm so tired. also if you ask a random stranger this in real life, a random stranger who's mature enough to understand the difference between fiction and reality, they will look at you like you speak gibberish.

proship stance = anti harassing real people over goddamned fiction. your kink is not my kink and that's okay. don't like don't read. there are some prompts that trigger the fuck out of me. I don't read it. I don't even like it. but I will defend its rights to exist because

1.) it is fiction

2.) no one in real life is harmed

3.) it cannot harm you unless you go searching for it, knowing it will upset or trigger you

4.) a lot of victims and survivors cope and heal through fiction, a safe and controlled environment

5.) censorship is a fascist tool. once you allow one thing to be censored because someone somewhere doesn't want it to exist, anything and everything can and will be censored.

Thank you all so much for 1000 followers!!

I come here to play dolls and I choose again and again to do it in public and it feels very special to have so many of you tell me that you love the story I am playing out.

I am here to deliver a story that will ask a question. I am here to make perverse morally ambiguous homoerotic freak art of those rocks, and whether that comforts or disturbs you, I'm glad to know my art has made you feel something.

I got to know the creativity of so many of you while working on this. The stories told through your character designs are all incredibly beautiful and I consider myself lucky being a part of such a vibrantly creative fandom branch. I love you all.

List of everyone's characters below the cut, good luck.

his eyes are up there, armand

Oh, wow. This is the first time I've seen Claudeleine of all ships being accused of taking something away from another ship. That's wild.

Romance isn't finite.

It's not something Claudeleine or Loustat or Nickistat or Lesmand or Loumand or, I don't know, fucking Santiago and Eglee can 'use up' so there'll be nothing left for poor DM, the guys who are already canonically calling themselves companions/joking about being married.

Since I don't know who you are and tone is very difficult to parse in asks like this, I don't know exactly what you're looking for here. I've already talked a lot about why I'm not worried about DM, so if you're looking for reassurance, you can check out my answers to previous asks about this subject (should all be tagged with "asks" and "Devil’s Minion").

If you're looking to shake my confidence in/positivity about the ship, please take that somewhere else entirely, because it's not going to work and would be kind of an asshole thing to do (not saying that's what you are doing, but many people have tried before and I'm pretty over it).

Of course DM is going to be different to the other relationships. They're different people, who met under different circumstances and whose relationship has had and will have a different trajectory. Plus, it would be very boring if they were just Loustat Light or Claudeleine But With Guys or whatever. No ship does it like DM does it, which is actually why they're thee ship of all time to me. There's no reason to assume that "different" will be a bad thing.

Also, they're canonically - both in the book and the show - a ship that's captor/captive, stalker/stalked, hunter/prey to lovers. Stockholm Syndrome isn't actually a real thing, but it's not that weird of a comparison to draw, since Daniel literally falls in love with the guy who kept him locked up for days, tortured him, expressed an intent to kill him and then chased him around the world. Like? Literally why should Eric comparing that to falling in love/taking sides with your hostage taker bother us? Is that not sort of, you know, exactly what happens?

I remain, as always, supremely unworried about the future of this ship, and I don't understand why so many people seem to think I shouldn't be.

(Please for the love of our collective sanity, no one try to explain it to me. I've heard all the arguments before and they will not convince me.)

Nature is queer!

Working on some new queer art for some upcoming queer events ✨

sometimes I’m reminded that there are still people who don’t know ao3 was literally created by incest shippers — and the site’s sole purpose is to 1. be completely against censorship and 2. host all kinds of dark, taboo fics that are banned on other platforms — and the first ever fic that was posted on ao3 was a fic about an incest ship from supernatural.

you are in the house that was created by freaks. for freaks (affectionate). every disgusting thing you can think of is rightfully allowed and welcomed on ao3, because they are exactly the reasons why ao3 was created in the first place.

ao3 was created because its creators got tired of censorship, they got tired of dark and taboo fics getting banned on pro-censorship platforms, and they wanted a place that was safe for ALL FICS THAT WERE DARK AND TABOO.

ao3’s main principle is being against censorship and being proship / profic.

there are some things in fiction that make me uncomfortable, but instead of shaming people who are just minding their own business and not harming anyone in real life, I choose to curate my own internet experience by blocking/muting what I don’t want to see. ao3 has excellent tagging system, so instead of being a bitch, use their tagging system properly and you won’t see the things you don’t want to see.

it’s your job to curate what you see. it’s not other people’s jobs or responsibilities to censor themselves for your personal comfort. the world does not revolve around you.

also you cannot censor “only the things you personally hate” without expecting everything else, that isn’t of conservative beliefs, to be censored too. because censorship is a slippery slope and a fascist tool. I promise you there are people who think “why do tags for queer love even exist on ao3? they’re grooming children”.

if you allow the things that you hate to be censored — because someone with enough power gets to control what other people can and cannot create/consume, it will not stop at the things that you hate.

i don't fuck with purity culture bs

please recognize that it's just consverativism in a thinly veiled disguise trying to convince you it's actually about protecting you

it isn't

it's about control