You can call me Blue, B, Blur, whatever you like! I'm an adult and they/them pronouns will do just fine for me, thank you.
I finally decided to stop lurking the proship tag and actually make a blog to dump my thoughts and reblog proship positivity and various discourse. I'm not a native English speaker so please excuse me if I word things weirdly.
My ask box is open, but anon will never be on. Some antis take advantage of anonymity to send death threats and insults, and I'm not willing to put up with that. Also, please don't come into my inbox if you expect me to tell you how to solve your personal drama or internet squabbles. And on this note, please, do not treat me as an authority figure on anything. I am not here to tell you what you should think or do. Just to offer an opinion at best.
This blog is:
- proship/profic (for antis with no reading comprehension: the "pro" does not stand for "problematic", but for "in favour of". Proship is a stance that has to do with refusing to harass people for what they ship, not with the nature of the ship itself. Profiction applies this same line of thinking to fiction is general. Therefore, you aren't obligated to like problematic content to be proship or profic, it's all about whether you harass people over fiction or not)
- pro sex workers
- pro kink
- pro paraphilia (as for paraphilias that are non-consensual in regards to real people or animals, this blog is okay with them on the basis that they remain strictly no contact and fictional/imaginary)
- pro AO3
- anti censorship
- anti harassment
I'm uncomfortable with minors following this blog. If by any chance a minor does follow me, I'll block them as soon as I notice. If the blog is ageless I'll assume the user is not a minor and that they've read my pinned post, though I kindly invite minors to unfollow. This is unrelated to whether they are proshippers or not, it's just a personal boundary.
Antis, exclusionists, racists, radfems/terfs/tirfs/swerfs, radqueers and tradfems/prolife will be blocked. To prevent harassment, hate will be ignored and deleted, at best pointed and laughed at.
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How "asshole reacts to unsuspecting artist's works" has become the favorite pastime of people in fandom now. You have all become SO incredibly mean. In what world can you justify combing blogs to make fun of shit and putting on a show of it for your followers okay?
âAlmost every other flagâ is not an exaggeration. There is literally only one Pride flag older than the Leather Pride flag, and thatâs the original 8-stripe (and then 6-stripe) rainbow flag.
A quick timeline:
1978: Gilbert Baker (zââl) creates the 8-stripe Rainbow pride flag.
1979: For production reasons, the flag is reduced to the 6-stripe version most people know.
1989: Leather Pride flag created by Tony DeBlase & presented at the International Mr. Leather event on 5/28/89.
1995: International Bear Brotherhood Flag designed by Craig Byrnes. Introduced at the Chesapeake Bay âBears of Summerâ events in July 1995.
1995: Red/black/blue polyamory flag with yellow pi symbol debuted by Jim Evans.
1998: Bi Pride flag created by Michael Page. He introduces it at BiCafeâs first anniversary party on 12/5/98.
1999: Monica Helms creates the Transgender Pride flag. She debuts it the next year at a Pride parade in Arizona.
2010: AVEN creates a flag to represent the organization. It is later used as the ace pride flag for the community as a whole.
2010: Jasper V. creates the pan pride flag. This Pride flag debuted on Tumblr!
2011: Marilyn Roxie designs the genderqueer flag.
2012: JJ Poole debuts the Genderfluid flag.
2013: The Intersex Pride flag is created by Morgan Carpenter of Intersex Human Rights Australia.
2014: Kye Rowan introduces their creation, the non-binary flag.
And on from there.
So itâs pretty clear that the Leather flag has been an accepted symbol within the queer community for years - and in some cases decades - before more recently-designed flags. This isnât a case of the flag being âbetterâ or whatever, but itâs kind of undeniable that yes - the Leather community and the queer community have always been undeniably entangled.
You can ship every character ever, there are no exceptions. If you don't like that â scroll and block the people who do! Or, if you can't manage the very simple act of blocking/scrolling, just gracefully stop participating in fandom spaces.
this is a dumbass comment for two (2) reasons, which i will now tell you.
1: no one is arguing that fiction doesn't affect reality. no one. in fact, the only people i've seen argue that "fiction doesn't affect reality" are proship bait blogs (blogs made by antis to "bait" proship people), so maybe you want to redirect this energy towards your fellow antis.
fiction does affect reality, but not to the extent that most antis argue. fiction can make you happy, sad, angry, etc. if you're not careful with what you're consuming, it can potentially trigger you, but it can also help you heal from trauma(s). what fiction cannot do is make you abuse or assault someone on a whim. if you have a good grasp on fiction and reality, if you know the difference between the two (which most people do), you don't have to worry about fiction turning you into an abuser. if fiction somehow makes you do things you'd never consider doing, then clearly your moral backbone is comprised entirely of wet spaghetti, which is a problem with you, not the fiction you're consuming.
2: if you're aware that certain things in fiction may have a negative impact on you (such as causing psychosis, as the comment claims), then it is your responsibility to safely manage what you consume in fiction to avoid being negatively affected. no one else's. you being stupid enough to consume fictional content that you know negatively affects you (multiple times, apparently!) does not suddenly make fiction bad and dangerous, it just makes you irresponsible.
"fiction caused x negative affect on me" will never mean "fiction is inherently harmful".
all it means is that you need to curate your damn internet experience and stop reading shit that you know you don't like! which is what the proship community has been saying!! fucking listen!!!
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You're not "pro-kink" if you're against some of literally THE most popular kinks and support the increasing censorship and banning of them in online spaces.
idc what y'all say but villains of teenage superheroes will always be weirdos. Like why are u obsessed with someone whose clearly underaged? Plotting and scheming all day about kidnapping and putting ur filthy hands on them. Oooo u wanna kiss them so bad. Take them to ur lair to have ur nasty way with them u weirdo. Just a disgusting lil freak.
"proship just means anti censorship and anti harassment" and i agree with those ideals but honestly that's literally the bare fucking minimum. i don't get why we need to have a special label to identify with just for following said bare minimum. it's kinda giving "look at me! i'm a good person! aren't i such a good person?!"
because whether or not you like it, there are people who harass others over fiction. in an ideal world where no one harassed people over fiction, the label wouldnât have existed at all.
so instead of âhey, look at me Iâm a good personâ, what the label says is âactually I do not agree with all of you who think itâs okay to harass real people over fictionâ.
I saw a TERF complaining about how people ship canon lesbians with men by headcanoning the latter as transfem, so here's your weekly reminder that you can actually ship anyone with anyone for any reason. It's all made-up. Those people aren't real. Their sexuality doesn't exist and you are as free to define it according to your whims as any other part of the fictional construct you're engaging with. People constraining your art with their desires and demanding you only make that which pleases them is fascist bullshit.
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it's really telling how much of puritanical fearmongering lives and dies on the presumption that the mere representation of harm is enough to hijack the viewer's brain entitely into internalizing whatever's being shown as Godly And Inevitable or whatever. Which really just paints a horribly sad picture about their own relationship with independant thought.
the sub fantasy: "imagine if I didn't have to make decisions. Imagine if someone gave me what I wanted without me having to admit I wanted it."
the dom fantasy: "imagine if there was a situation I could actually be in control of. Imagine there was a person who actually did things that I wanted when I asked them to."
I think it's incredibly important to remember that bad people can still be likeable people. And that in fact, a lot of bad people are deliberately likeable, and use their likeability as armor.
It's harder to disagree with, or disapprove of, or convince other people that a likeable person is a bad one. It's so much easier to discredit your victims and sow doubt when everyone likes you.
I see a lot of media criticism of movies and tv shows at the moment, where people deem villains as 'too likeable' and 'too human' and 'its too hard to see him as a villain because of X and Y.'
And that is the whole fucking point.
Bad people often cloak themselves in likeability in order to escape the consequences of their actions and choices. Bad people are not always doing bad things 24/7.
this probably isn't a can of worms i want to open, but shipping aro/ace characters is not indicative of arophobia/acephobia/queerphobia.
the "excuse" that aro/ace people can have romantic and/or sexual relationships is valid, of course, but a more important point â these characters are not real. there is no orientation of theirs to disrespect, because they do not exist. they're not harmed or offended by people shipping them. if someone writes an asexual character having sex, that doesn't mean they're acephobic. these characters literally do not exist, the situations and relationships they're in do not exist. it is truly not this massive injustice, or this massive act of bigotry against the community. people can write whatever they like with whatever characters they like.
would accurate representations of aro/ace people being in relationships be nice? yeah. should more people explore these relationships in fiction? in my opinion, yeah. but sometimes people just want to write or draw porn with a character they like, and that's completely fine, too. fandom isn't activism, and fanfiction especially isn't.
disclaimer: op is on both the aromatic and asexual spectrum. op is also extremely sex-repulsed, and in a relationship.
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I hope this isnât a weird question Iâve just been really conflicted and thought this was a safe enough space to ask for opinions from the community. Iâve seen most proshippers use proshipping as a coping mechanism for traumas they have experienced in their lives. Itâs been making me feel a bit guilty because Iâve been a proshipper for years. While darkshipping has been a coping mechanism for me, Iâve never experienced major traumas related to the content I consume other than a minor uncomfortable encounter with my mom. Itâs been making me wonder if thatâs okay or if I shouldnât be as I am not using it to heal but rather project my own suffering onto fictional characters (in a âI am suffering therefore my fav has to suffer too but way worse than I am.â way.)
You never need to have a "valid" reason to play around with fiction. The mind is curious, the mind likes to explore. Fiction is a safe way to do that. You don't need permission via trauma. Play with dolls as you want.
Google is going to restrict what mobile apps you are allowed to install on your Android devices starting September 2026.
Date of this post: March 12, 2026. Announcement was August 2025, and still stands.
Only verified apps from developers that provide all their personal details and government ID will be allowed, even from outside the Play Store.
They say this is for our safety, but this is taking away our digital rights. It's about control.
Sources, elaboration, and solutions under the cut.
Get started building your Android apps.
"Starting in September 2026, Android will require all apps to be registered by verified developers in order to be installed on certified Android devices.
You will need to provide and verify your personal details, like your legal name, address, email address, and phone number.
If you're registering as an organization, you'll also need to provide a D-U-N-S number and verify your organization's website.
You may also need to upload official government ID.
You'll need to prove you own your apps by providing your app package name and app signing keys."
Why is this bad?
Quoting keepandroidopen.org:
"You, the consumer, purchased your Android device believing in Googleâs promise that it was an open computing platform and that you could run whatever software you choose on it. Instead, as of September 2026, they will be non-consensually pushing an update to your operating system that irrevocably blocks this right and leaves you at the mercy of their judgement over what software you are permitted to trust.
You, the creator, can no longer develop an app and share it directly with your friends, family, and community without first seeking Googleâs approval. The promise of Android â and a marketing advantage it has used to distinguish itself against the iPhone â has always been that it is âopenâ. But Google clearly feels that they have enough of a lock on the Android ecosystem, along with sufficient regulatory capture, that they can now jettison this principle with prejudice and impunity.
You, the state, are ceding the rights of your citizens and your own digital sovereignty to a company with a track record of complying with the extrajudicial demands of authoritarian regimes to remove perfectly legal apps that they happen to dislike. The software that is critical to the running of your businesses and governments will be at the mercy of the opaque whims of a distant and unaccountable corporation."
Quoting woheller69 on github:
"Requiring developers to submit personal identity details to Google in order for their apps to run on certified Android devices represents a serious attack on fundamental digital rights:
Developer privacy â Individual developers and small teams should not be forced to hand over government IDs or sensitive documents to a multinational corporation. Many developers value their privacy for legitimate personal, political, or security reasons.
The right to use my own device â As a user, I should be free to run the software of my choice on my phone. Blocking applications that do not meet Googleâs new requirements is a restriction on device ownership and digital freedom.
Free and open-source software ecosystems â Many FOSS projects are developed by volunteers who will not (and often cannot) provide identity documents. This policy risks removing an enormous amount of valuable free software from certified Android devices.
Developer safety â In some countries, linking real-world identities to developers of privacy tools, political apps, or security software can put them in danger. This requirement could actively harm people.
Adaptation and forking of open-source programs â One of the most important freedoms of open-source software is the ability to fork and adapt programs to personal or local needs. Today, I can simply fork an app, add a translation, build it, and install it on my device. Under the new rules, any fork would require a new package ID â which in turn would force the developer to register with Google and provide personal identity details. This creates a bureaucratic and privacy-invasive barrier to the most basic use of open-source: improving, localizing, and customizing software."
Bypass Options:
Contribute to woheller69/FreeDroidWarn development by creating an account on GitHub.
"Use a free, uncensored Android system like /e/os, LineageOS, or GrapheneOS that does not preinstall Google Play Services.
"Degoogle" by removing Google Play Services. Depending on the manufacturer of your phone this may require rooting your device.
Install apps via ADB. Google has already confirmed that ADB will continue to work in the future. You can either use ADB from a PC as described below or use a wireless ADB based installer like anyapk."
Please Complain! Details are listed here for many countries:
Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.