#problematic inbox

Thank you!

I don’t actually leave when I’m not posting here, I just spend most of my time working on my original comics. Which are full of ships that would be considered Extremely Problematic...if they were popular enough for more than a dozen people to care.

(Age gaps! Redeemed villains! Teens being attracted to each other! Non-redeemed villains! Power dynamics! Characters who first met when one was underage, even though now he’s in his two-hundreds! Tiny people, which obviously makes them all minor-coded! Characters with the kinds of disabilities that some people love to infantilize! Characters having any kinds of conflict whatsoever! It’s all here.)

just maxed the tumblr post image limit, all with ships of non-related characters, in less time than it took to type this caption

I'd say I'm still in SM fandom! Just devoting less time to it than I used to.

Not even gonna try to identify all the "problematic" ships...we’d be here all day. This fandom has hero/villain ships, villain/villain ships, age-difference ships, characters whose relative ages change so now they’re age-difference ships in the other direction, ships with characters who have treated each other badly at some point doing this 200-episode series, ships between relatives, ships between characters who might be relatives, and a straight-up canon scene of a character making out with her own dad. Endless options, here.

Also, let’s be real, any time a fan doesn’t like a ship, they can decide “it must be Problematic” and work backwards from there to come up with a reason why.

...but I don’t follow those kinds of SM fans, so none of that crosses my dash these days.

Afraid not -- I’m just one person, the list of “problematic ships” is already long enough, even if I took requests for “bashed characters” I’d never actually get around to them.

Go for it! It’s not like I have a patent on the idea of “taking art prompts” or “making positive work in response to negativity.” If you’re inspired, follow your heart.