✨Live & Let ship✨

Fandom Problem #15,035:

A quick timeline:

1978: Gilbert Baker (z’‘l) 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 “Bears of Summer” 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 BiCafe’s 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.

Yes, even an asexual character.

Yes, even an aromantic character.

Yes, even an underage character.

Yes, even a nonhuman character.

Yes, even a character in a canon relationship.

Yes, even a character uninterested in dating.

Yes, even a canonically dead character.

Yes, even an "evil" character.

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".

Of course not, it’s roleplay. It’s not real. I do not care what you roleplay as long as you consent.

I like roleplaying I’m an omega in heat. I am neither an omega, nor can I go into heat. Kill me I guess

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 wouldn’t have existed at all.

Fandom Problem #14,558:

People who will ignore proshippers telling them what proship means and listen to antis about what it means?

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.

the "excuse" that aro/ace people can have romantic and/or sexual relationships is valid, of course, but a more important point — 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.

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.