Loving Eskel Hours

Like how chronically online are you that you’re checking the blogs of everyone who reblogs from you

And I genuinely mean that. Even if the post only has like 10 notes at best. How much free time do you have to check the blogs of all 10 of those notes, and then go OUT OF YOUR WAY to message anyone who doesn’t fit your strict guidelines for human interaction. And I know some of y’all don’t just check but you DIG, because some of the stuff I get DMed about is not advertised on my blog as soon as you look at it.

How do you all survive outside of the internet when every persons political opinions and stances on fictional content aren’t displayed to you right off the bat.

tiefling? first character, just want to have fun.

drow dude? clocked him as a vamp immediately and decided that, unfortunately, this is the only other being he cares about. he views himself as Astarion's knight in not so shiny armor (and Astarion is the only companion he's recruiting)

drow LASS? immediately smitten in the same way you would be with a cute animal. force him to bite the drow at moonrise? of COURSE NOT, that vampire is her property, no one else gets to feel that kind of satisfaction in regards to him. let him ascend? of COURSE NOT, she's not going to give her property more weaponry. this is very much a Bad End for Astarion, she just prefers to use metaphorical honey to lure/control him.

cranky murderhobo satyr(game mod)? hates most people and would prefer Astarion NOT feed on innocent animals if he doesn't need to.

githyanki dude? shrug emoji seemed like the thing to do at the time (I mostly want to see the unique options for githyanki but I mean... I'm going to woo the vampire so may as well...)

Only, it wasn't called proship. It was called ship and let ship. Or minding your own buisness.

If someone had a ship you didn't like or thought was gross, you would avoid them. If they drew art or wrote stories you didn't agree with or like, you would ignore them.

There were tags like smut, whump, and angst to tell people about things they might not want to read. And then dead dove: do not eat for taboo subjects and especially gritty fic.

Then people started to ignore that. Younger fans started to bully people because they disagreed with shipping certain characters. Whether it be because it "wasn't canon", they thought it was gross, or they just didn't like it.

These people began calling themselves "anti-ship"

Pro-ship became a label to show that someone was against anti-ship.

Eventually, the anti-ship movement began to die down. So do you know what they did? They started accusing people. Of being pedophiles, groomers, rape supporters, and more. All because they wrote or drew things that these people didn't like.

They began claiming that THEY were the Fandom norm, and that these "proshippers" were the bad people. They started claiming that proship stood for "problematic shipping"

Due to this, the term "pro-ship" is often misconstrued as to what it means. Many people don't even KNOW what it means.

It means "anti-censorship".

It means that we support someone's right to produce art, no matter how gross, no matter how taboo, no matter how "problematic"

Because it's not hurting anyone.

If it's something you don't want to see? Block the person. Block the tag. Say in your bio that you don't like it. That's what they're FOR!

This was discussed in earlier days of fandom.

"I wonder why people would read a story in a genre they don't care for, then take the time to let the writer know that sure enough, they didn't care for it. That would be like me going to a restaurant, ordering a slice of cherry pie, then asking that the chef be brought out so I can say "I don't like cherry pie, and I didn't like yours either." To continue this analogy into its usual fannish outcome, the chef would say "Well gee, lady, why did you order it?" And I'd say, "Are you questioning my right to order cherry pie?"

-Unknown 2002

And whole we're at it. Let it be suspiciously sentient. The way cats make you feel like they can understand everything you say, they just don't care.

Other specificantions may vary based on your place on the monster-lover to monster-fucker spectrum.

I REFRESHED TUMBLR AND NOW THE LAYOUTS ALL WEIRD 

FIRST OFF… WHAT LOL tumblrmart sounds like something from 2012 im sorry it sounds like a corner store bodega thats a front for meth. it sounds like the ‘tumblr school’ from back in the day.

also wtf is the badge thing IS THIS LIKE THE TWITTER CHECK MARK….STOP

the messaging sounds examples…ok how about no…FWIP XDD

LMFAOOOOO

they really shoving it in my face no matter where i click 

WANNA GO AD FREE??? ARE YOU SICK OF ADS YET?? DONT YOU WANNA GIVE US MONEY TO NOT LOOK AT THESE ADS?? 

day 1 of new updates. someone sent me a link on how to opt out of this lmao im gonna check it out. 

But honestly the new dash layout isnt awful… I just wish it wasnt SPAMMING MY EYES with ‘wanna get rid of these ads?”

This was entirely written for fun, do whatever you want with this/feel free to debate 👍👍

Jhonen is a troll and likes to contradict himself and just mess with people. also, death of the author yadda yadda.

but I think my main point is that zadr/f fans who prefer to interpret him as a child forget this implies he would be a child soldier. and, guys... I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but a child soldier is nothing like the 12 y/o down the lane, no matter how neglected that kid is.

this gives 2 options for zadr shippers:

adult alien/Dib

child soldier/Dib

NEITHER of these is a “healthy” or “acceptable” relationship irl. NEITHER of these should be tolerated irl.

note the emphasis on irl. because REAL LIFE and REAL PEOPLE are different than FICTION and FICTIONAL PEOPLE. the law doesn’t treat them the same for good reason.

irken/child character shippers, let’s talk. we like something that would be morally fucked up if it were real people. that’s fine. because they aren’t real people.

but do you know what else is fine? what is, in fact, perfectly legal? not aging Dib up. if you want to, that is fine. perfectly fine. COMPLETELY understandable, in fact. but it’s ALSO fine if you don’t. you are not a fucked up person if you want to WRITE about it when Dib is canon age. (DRAWING it is a different kettle of fish.) fiction is there SPECIFICALLY to safely explore shit that should not (or even could not, since IRKENS AREN’T REAL) happen to REAL people.

Game of Thrones has a family where incest isn’t just the norm, it’s the EXPECTATION. this is a book that can be read for free in libraries. it was adapted into a SHOW with a prequel series that FOCUSES on the incest family. BECAUSE IT’S FICTION AND THAT IS FINE.

you know what else is in Game of Thrones? underage sex. Daenerys has just gotten her VERY FIRST PERIOD when she is married off to a grown ass man. (who doesn’t even speak her language!) she is being married off SPECIFICALLY for that reason. and after the wedding night their relationship is “rape her until she likes it”. Daeny is pregnant a year after the wedding. they are treated as being one of if not THE most romantic couple in the series.

you know who else has written underage sex that can be read for free in a public library?

Stephen King. in The Library Policeman there is a detailed child rape (four pages!) scene and in the book It there is a (seven page!) gang bang between the kids. the kids who are ELEVEN.

Neither of those authors are in prison because writing about fictional fucked up shit is fine. it does not mean you approve of that shit irl. AND it DOESN’T mean you HAVE TO LIKE IT, either. you are allowed to not like things.

this kind of went off the rails. the point is, people who ship irken/child character are not in fact freaks of nature, nor are we doing something illegal. and if you don’t want to associate with people who support that ship? you’d better find a different fandom entirely, because even if Jhonen doesn’t care for zadr, there are cast and crew who are fine with or even like it.

these are doodles by people who worked on the movie: