hi, this is not the post I expected to be making. this thing spiralled wildly out from what i originally anticipated, so i’m putting this out there to warn the normal people left on hermitblr.
content warnings: hermitshipping, ableism. everything is captioned
so I feel the need to organize my posts in numbered lists for clarity sake. here we go
1: context
the good times zine is a for charity zine cenetered on goodtimeswithscar, run by 2(?) mods, the main mod is on twitter here. I contacted the other mod(who i will refer to as mod B) becauseeee
2: art theft
this is how this whole situation started, really. I contacted the mod because @/ethoslab ‘s art was used as part of the promotional image for the zine, found (here)
so I took the liberty of messaging ethoslab and got this response
[yeah ive never heard about this zine before in my life and i absolutely wasnt contact for my art to be used in the promotion of it :/
its a little scummy to do a zine as a present and invite artists when you don't even ask permission for the art u use on the website lol]
when I asked mod b about it, they said that the art was “heavily credited” but as stated above, it’s in poor taste to use art for promotion of something like this without express permission from the artist
now, this next part is concerning the main moderator, rhayne.
part 3: oh lord theyre a shipper
rhayne is 18, also! why does this part matter? bc 1 it’s public and free to see on their twitter, and 2 because in the rules for the zine they expressly state “no ship art allowed” which shows they know how uncomfortable scar would b by seeing this LOL. don't wanna put words in mouth but I doubt scar actually checked before (allegedly) approving the zine’s promotion
proof of them being in charge of this zine:
[Actually- I think I have a cool present for Scar!! I thought about it a lot, and wouldn’t it be REALLY cool if we did an (unofficial) charity zine to a charity of Scar’s choice ??? I would absolutely LOVE that!]
(source here)
Here’s the official zine page saying no ship art allowed:
[5. Can we include other ships in our pieces?
No! Posting ship art to your own blog is one thing, but this is a gift for Scar, and we’d like to keep it as PG and comfortable for him as possible!]
(source here)
misc offerings of them being shipper-y and headcanons
(just... look at the replies to this tweet)
main attraction though, is this specifically:
(context: the 1st reply is asking for headcanons about scar)
[-bi and ace!
-scardoc
-cub and scar!
-scar does, in fact, have many scars. he tells people they’re from jellie and his other cats, but they’re actually from his history of being a bandit criminal.
-AAA another one of my favorites!!]
note the first? specifically headcanoning scar as ace. This is extremely ableist LOL it’s infantilizing and takes away the agency to headcanon as ace, premise of projecting it onto a real person adding to the layer of disturbing this all has.
part 4: TLDR
this zine is being run mostly by a whole 18 year old who is a hermitshipper, and is ableist. I acknowledge that rhayne’s twitter description says theyre disabled/disability activist, but that doesn’t make them immune to ableism/internalized ableism manifested in harmful presentations such as headcanons like the ones presented previously.
do not support this zine, do not harass anyone, fuck hermit shippers, goodbye.
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You want the personal answer? I have literal trauma associated with it
You want the long, citationed answer? Real person shipping, in practice, has negatively impacted relationships between content creators, in addition to being downright uncomfortable to watch. I could cite multiple examples, from jse and markiplier, to Dan and Phil, to even celebrities like harry styles and larry louison, smplive had wilbur and schlatt(notice how these are champion m/m "ships"). This commodification, and dare I say it, fetishization of men's friendships is frankly, disgusting. Jack and Mark had to make videos asking people to step back and reassess boundaries, in Dan's coming out video he mentioned shipping was a huge stress factor in his life, Harry Styles publicly admitted that shipping ruined his friendship. Schlatt straight up told people off for shipping him and Wilbur because he rightfully found it disturbing and invasive.
Why the absolute fuck do hermit shippers think they'd be different? I'm adamantly and loudly against shipping and I shut down shippers because I don't WANT to have to hit a breaking point where a hermit is required to address it because someone couldn't keep their fingers to themselves.
Edit: also forgot to say this but it's not like you're REQUIRED to ship the real life people I promise it's VERY EASY to not look at them and make content in a romantic context it's SIMPLE and requires no mental gymnastics to justify it
You can tell these people are white bc of how they think being made fun of for their weird hobby that they can't keep in their own tag is equal to being oppressed
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No offense but imagine being enough of a freak to try to figure out "covert" ways to violate ppls boundaries abt shipping... You are abhorrent you are not an oppressed minority you absolutely do not have to fucking ship minecraft youtubers together please log off of this website
hermitshippers be like "it doesnt affect anyone the hermits are okay with it" when literally the main reason i havent drawn out a lot of my hermitcraft fanart ideas is because im scared itll either get into hermitshipping circles or people will suspect im a shipper cuz i draw these guys interacting
Yeah it's just very
That's the only way I can sum it up. It's just. Uncomfortable mspaint cat