Just a warning, @/nenenene is a Kr*ttcest shipper.
Look, you are all going to need to read this- I am "fandom old" at this point in pretty much any fandom I'm in- I don't ship it, I CAN'T ship it, it goes against everything I personally believe in. HOWEVER, if a cute piece of art pops up that ISN'T actively showing shipping content, I'm going to reblog it because I can and will interpret it as platonic whether they want me to or not. This does not, and never will mean, I somehow enjoy incest shipping or that I am morally tainted because I happen to like a piece of art that happened to be drawn by an incest shipper.
Art can be interpreted and it does not put a stain on your morality or taint your soul just because you happen to like a piece of art drawn by a person you don't morally agree with. It's OK to enjoy stuff without attaching morality to it. 90% of the famous rock bands have killer music and also did 50,000 kinds of drugs, slept with underaged groupies and were shit to their wives, but we still enjoy the music. Separate the art from the artist, fam; unless they are actively using money and their art to cause harm by forcing it onto people they know won't like it or cause a hateful message etc, it's harmless.
It's a piece of art and I like that piece of art. There is nothing else to it.
Also as a fandom old, I've seen everything (whether I wanted to or not, and I mean fucking EVERYTHING) probably things that would make my ancestors die of heart attacks because I've been around for long enough to poke into all the nooks and crannies. Whatever you think is morally wrong and taboo out there, there's hundreds of thousands of well adjusted, normal adults drawing pictures and writing stories about it for shits and giggles. They will never murder anyone, they will never do terrible things to children, they just have a good time in their little sandbox with other people and they don't expect you to enjoy it if it's not your thing.
The longer I've been around, the more I understand that things will just exist and I'm not going to police people just for creating something I personally find distasteful and gross.
As long as the real life people these cartoon characters are based on do not see it, can live blissfully unaware of it, and are not being actively pushed into anything relating to it, who cares?
I KNOW people don't like hearing this kind of thing because recently there's this culture of BUT THE BAD THINGS ARE BAD! Yeah, in real life. Stories and drawings aren't real life. As much as it hurts, Naruto and Sonic don't have real feelings to hurt. So as long as this stuff stays blissfully away from the real people, it's not that big of a deal.
As a firm believer in the freedom to choose, I really can't start going to people and trying to police what they do just because I don't personally agree with it. And besides, MOST of the time when people are experimenting with concepts in art and written form that are taboo subjects, they don't usually condone it in real life. It's literally just a safe space to play in a sandbox. If I pop off a barbie'\s head I didn't kill barbie, you feel? And as much as they are made to be representations of the actual brothers, they're cartoon versions; they're superheroes who turn into animals, and that's what they're writing/drawing about. They're not thinking about the actual 50 year old men and even if they are, again, there's no harm in having your taboo thoughts as long as you don't act on them (IE try to get the actual real life people together or tell them about it etc.).
Terf rhetoric? Yeah block the bitches because they actively cause harm and spread harm to real people and they want to cause harm. But a person that's likely just throwing their weird ideas into the wind online because it's not really hurting anyone to do it? They can absolutely be blocked, but you can also just... let them be in their little sandbox. As long as your stance on it is clear, and they accept your boundaries, it doesn't do any harm.
Live your life the way you want to, but don't worry about random online shippers, my friend. Unless they're actively trying to get the real life people to do stuff or see the content which is deliberately trying to make people uncomfortable, are causing harm to children or other people, are pushing for violence against other people, or are actively trying to hurt you, allow yourself the freedom to just be like "not for me" and step away.
This. 100 percent this.
To criminalize thought is to criminalize being human. There is such a thing as "art-artist separation," as wild a concept though it may seem. To write something is not to condone it, and many times it's specifically to condemn it.
Vladimir Nabokov wrote "Lolita" to condemn the actions of serial child rapist Frank La Salle, who kidnapped 11 year old Sally Horner and forced her to pretend to be his daughter. He also wrote it in response to his own molestations at the hands of his uncle. I don't think he condoned what he wrote about.
James Dickey wrote "Deliverance" in 1970 to bring awareness to the rampant inbreeding of the Deep South, as well as the stigma and struggles of male rape victims. I don't think he would condone the horrible actions performed in his book.
Bret Easton Ellis wrote "American Psycho" as a graphic satire of the two-faced nature and dehumanity of the workers of corporate America. Last I checked, he wouldn't condone being a serial killer.
It's okay to dislike something. You have every right to dislike it. But also, they have every right to like it. Furthermore, (hopefully, at least,) nobody is forcing you to view any content you do not like. Blacklists and blocking exist for a reason. Use them.
Stop policing the thoughts of others, and start protecting your own.
Also, the people who say "But the bad things are bad, so you're bad for liking them!"
Allow me to retort.
In that mindset, if you like media with graphic violence, that makes you a violent and bad person. This means enjoying a show like Supernatural makes you a person who will go out and fight demons. That means liking "Fahrenheit 451" means you like listening to the Bible in your sleep and setting people on fire.
Need I say more?
Let people like what they like. So long as that isn't children, we're fine.
