#arkling

For my next, wild west themed D&D campaign, I wanted to try a world without plain humans. So, their replacement? My spin on Kalashtar, who I'm tentatively dubbing Arklings. Along with their psionic traits, Arklings have patterns on their skin that spiral to a central "eye" marking on their forehead, and generally indicate which Great Spirit the Arkling is attuned to.

Fifty years ago, the Arklings of the Argellian Empire managed to conquer the known world. For a brief window. Then a combination of freedom fighters, saboteurs, and idiot rulers saw the empire smashed. Now their old western holdings are mixing pots of many peoples, with teetering unstable governments and secrets whispered behind closed minds.

Ok so this is going to be a really long rant so please bear with me.

A lot of people try to excuse shipping stuff like p*edophilia, abuse, and incest because and I quote” It’s just Fiction” or “ Just because i ship it doesn’t mean i support it irl”. 

Here’s the problem with this: It’s not just fiction. Fiction influences reality. I am a literal child compared to a lot of the people in fandoms I’m in and I understand this. Honestly it’s not that hard.

Ships with harmful content like p*edophilia , incest and racism ruin the fandom for people who have had these experiences along with normalizing such ideas. 

there is something inherently wrong with fetishizing and romanticizing abuse and trauma because it does nothing but validate the worldviews of people who actually do those things IRL. it makes kids think that adults doing stuff like that to them is perfectly fine and okay. it normalizes things like p*dophilia and other forms of child abuse.

when children get desensitized to things like that, it has a severe effect on them in the future and many, many ‘antis’ are living proof of this, such as ourselves. no matter how much you tag it, no matter how many warnings you put on it, your p*do fetish incest fic will eventually make it into the hands of minors and kids, whether you want to believe it or not.

A minor reads something that is harmful and makes them uncomfortable. When they try to speak out about this “ fandom moms “ belittle their opinions and and proceed to harass them for speaking out. This also happens when poc speak about about fandom racism. This leads to people believing that speaking out about something that dehumanizes them is a bad thing because apparently  “ fiction doesnt affect reality”.

Fiction affects the mentality of people whether you like it or not. People are most likely to take ideas from fiction and implement them  to their daily lives. People are mostly likely to strive towards being like characters they idolize and love. People are most likely to internalize the ideals they learn from fiction. This is extremely harmful to minority groups as they are lead to believe that their problems don’t matter and their opinions are worthless. 

When people say “ stop attacking people for shipping something, it takes light way from real world problems” its pissing off. When i hear people say that attacking people for shipping harmful ships is not going to stop actual pedophiles, you do realize that by making pedo content you are also making content for the very same pedophiles you said you dont support. No it may not stop actual pedophiles but you do realise that you are normalizing and possibly romanticizing the ideals that enable pedophiles to exist in the first place.

When you say attacking people for shipping their ships it confuses me. Because when did me telling you not to sexualize me and other children become attacking you? When did me telling you that what you ship dehumanizes minors or what you ship is harmful to people of colour become attacking you? When did me asking for a basic right of being respected and asking you not to do something because it harmful to certain people become attacking you?

I understand that yes, attacking people for simple shipping a ship is wrong. But do I look like I want to do it? I came to this fandom to have fun and escape from reality just like you and all people here did. But when people ship ships that are harmful to me as a person I cannot escape from reality. When people Ship ships that are racist I cannot escape reality. That is because racism and pedophilia are both realities to me. Hypersexualization of minors (esp poc) is a reality to me.

So when you say “ It’s just fiction “ please remember that what may be fiction to you is what others are living out as a reality. 

Again I’m begging you, please listen to people when they tell you that something is harmful to their culture. Please stop invalidating minorities and minors because it’s fiction to you.

Sankta Alina // The Sun Summoner // Alina Starkov

The Black Heretic // The Darkling // Aleksander Morozova