Space Orphan

Astrophilia is a Sheith Science Museum AU collab I illustrated with @goldentruth813 I already posted some here!

Illustrations for the Sheith in Summer week hosted on twitter!

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So... how do you guys feel about a little roles-reverse!AU in which Keith is the older one and, despite his sometimes questionable attitude, Garrison's golden-child, while Shiro is the young, promising new student from some nameless desert town?

Go, be great.

Another piece for the roles-reversed!AU. Keith left for the Kerberos mission and Shiro looks at that picture of them every day until Keith comes back.

"You did pretty well today."

"... So did you."

If you're scared of your friends for whatever reason, it you're scared of liking being in a specific fandom or liking a specific ship because you think you'll lose all your friends over it, if your friend group is essentially built on the idea that you're all good and everyone else is bad, if your friends use social ostracization and online stalking and harassment campaigns as threats and weapons, if your friends use fear and moral panic to keep people in line. . . . .

Extensive block lists with social consequences if your friends find you still follow any of those people? Mainstream books or news sources with conflicting opinions dismissed as “problematic” or out of touch? Information control.

Being expected to adopt the newest language, positions and targets without explanation even if they rapidly change? Any concerns or objections dismissed as evidence of incurable stupidity at best, unforgivable moral corruption at worst? Lumping wide varieties of info and theory together in simple good and evil categories? Thought control.

Effusive praise for complying with group demands, including and especially behavior that may make you uncomfortable, like bullying others? Seeing your friends send dissenters death threats? “Hot and cold” treatment, favoritism, competition for attention by powerful or BNF members of the group? Guilt trips about spending time and attention elsewhere? Emotion control.

this is a checklist for mlm ships, for those who aren’t mlm themselves. this includes yaoi shippers, fujoshis, and fans of BL.

originally i was considering including wlw ships, but there isn’t a lot of fetishization there, and the majority of problems are with mlm pairings.

i’d suggest keeping track of this on paper if you’re serious about doing this.

s/o to a few anons and @soy-quill for suggestions, and to ange for helping with the scaling system, and a few amazing friends and wonderful people for reading over it.

do you ship it because the two look hot together? (if so, +1 point)

do you basically only read/write nsfw fanfictions? (if so, +2 point)

do you think “i’m sinning” when reading mlm fanfictions? (if so, +2 point)

do you consider the characters gay even if they’ve had partners of different genders in the show? (if so, +1 point)

do you solely ship mlm? (if you’re a mlm yourself, ignore, because i understand. if you’re not, +1 point)

do you headcanon them as “tops” or “bottoms”? (if so, +1 point)

do you consider yourself a fujoshi? (if so, +3 point)

do you watch shows based on the fact that there are two shippable “mlm” characters in it? think watching sherlock for johnlock. (if so, +1 point)

do you ignore interracial ships for the sake of your mlm ship? (if so, +1 point)

do you ship incest? (if so, +5 point)

do you ship them regardless of large age differences, even pedophilia? (if so, +5 point)

do you think gay ships in media are “good representation” while citing that your ships are “only fiction”? (if so, +1 point)

do you like killing stalking or consider it “good representation”? (if so, +3 point)

do you like mlm but say that wlw/femslash/yuri isn’t “your thing”? (if so, +3 point)

do you say “let people ship what they want”, even when it includes abuse, incest, or pedophilia, in defense of your ship? (if so, +5 point)

do you get excited about how gay people can get married for your ship? (if so, +2 point)

do you ignore canon ages? (if so, +3 point)

do you age characters up or down for the sake of shipping? (if so, +4 point)

do you feminize one of the characters even if they’re pretty masculine? (if so, +1 point)

when you see a gay couple in public, do you ‘squeal’ and talk about them like you would about your other mlm ships? (if so, +2 points)

do you think anyone who ships those characters with someone else is wrong? (if so, +2 point)

do you ship largely based on chemistry or shared histories? (if so, -1 point)

do you ship any “heterosexual” ships with those characters? this is referring to canonly “straight” characters, not gay characters or characters with no canon sexual/romantic orientation that you headcanon as gay (if so, -1 point)

do you accept that these characters could be bi or pan? (if so, -1 point)

are you a mlm yourself? (if so, -1 point)

do you have any non-mlm lgbtqia+ ships? i.e., wlw (especially), queerplatonic, etc. (if so, -1 point)

do you think yaoi/fujoshis/BL is gross? (if so, -1 point)

do you watch shows for representation but not just for the sake of shipping? (if so, -1 point)

“do you ignore canon ages? (if so, +3 point)“

“do you age characters up or down for the sake of shipping? (if so, +4 point)“

BUT

“when you see a gay couple in public, do you squeal and talk about them like you would about your other mlm ships? (if so, +2 points)”

Real people aren’t “your mlm ship”. This deluded anti literally believes that headcanons about ages of fictional characters are twice as bad as fetishising real, living people.

You’re not just treating fiction like it’s reality, you’re also treating reality like it’s fiction.

Antis are the ones who fetishize far too much.

If someone ships certain pairings, who the fuck is anyone here to judge on "fetishizing" or telling them they can't ship what they want? It's fucking fiction. Get over yourselves, the ones who are actually guilty of fetishizing are all for you dumbfucks who ship REAL LIFE PEOPLE TOGETHER AS IF THEY WERE SOME FICTIONAL FUCKING CHARACTERS....

IF YOU CAN'T SEE HOW THAT IS A PROBLEM, THEN YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.

The only ones fetishizing... are the antis who try to tell everyone else what they can and can't enjoy.