Shipping Discourse - Blog Posts

Again me and my crackship welcome to the Kurtozzy hell

Headcannons and things i want to write about them:

Nice reminder theres nsfw content if you are not comfortable with, feel free to ignore this :)

- Ozzy likes kurt to use lingerie i dont make the rules here, and also skirts he likes the facility's of just pull up and press kurt against anywere

- I like the idea of ozzy being dominant but he doesn't like kurt to be all submissive he wants the fight to force kurt to submit to him, basically a brat tamer

- They already tried some roleplay but any of them take this enough seriously

- They have a non sexual intimacy with showers, Ozzy likes to shower Kurt's hair when he is feeling overwhelmed

- Kurt struggle a lot with sleeping so ozzy have to actually make him sleep for exhausting, this doesn't always means sex, can also mean that he will annoy and torture kurt mind haha

- they flirt basically with quibbling, basically the "i hate you so much that i will marry you to make your life a living hell" so a lot of people would be surprised in knowing that they actually are dating

- Ozzy acts innocent but he knows how to play with kurt head, he personally likes to play with kurt morals make this boy cry of shame and pleasure at the same time

- kurt likes to watch terrible movies with ozzy in the coach

- they are strangely health, but this doesnt mean that they can't be toxic since both of them knows what button to press, but i think they just... you know balance each other

It was this, thanks for your attention love ya

Proship vs. Antiship

This is the most polarizing discourse I'm aware of in every fandom, in that both sides generally believe the other side is morally atrocious and might cut ties with someone due to their stance on the issue.

Proship (short for pro-shipping) is the stance that people should be able to ship whatever they want, including ships that in real life would be harmful, or morally taboo at the least, such as teacher/student or incestuous relationships. The general philosophy of proshippers, from what I've seen, is "Ship and let ship." Proshippers believe that depicting harmful things in fiction is not necessarily harmful, at least in the context of fanfiction. They are usually very anti-censorship and believe in absolute freedom of artistic expression.

Antiship (short for anti-shipping) is most generally defined as the opposition to proship. I've never seen anyone self-identify as an antishipper, rather, the label is applied to them by proshippers. Though, people will express their opposition to proship openly, such as putting "proshippers DNI" in their bios. Antis generally believe that romanticizing harmful relationships in fiction, including fanfiction, is harmful in real life, due to normalizing abusive or unhealthy dynamics.

When I say this discourse is polarizing, I really mean it. The shipping war as characterized by antishippers (often referred to as "antis") is pedophiles vs. normal people who care about morality. According to proshippers, the war is anti-censorship believers vs moral puritans who will bully you off the internet for liking problematic content. To be clear, there is a real problem of antis bullying and harassing people they deem problematic, but this is not the behavior of the average antishipper. The shipping discourse is very Western and associated with English speakers, and has only recently (2015–present) started to spread to other cultures.

My view is that the popular discourse, the arguments that get 100k likes on Twitter and dominate the conversation, reflect a black-and-white, unnuanced, incorrect understanding of abuse and depictions of abuse in art. Black-and-white views of complex issues are always wrong, and that includes issues of morality. To keep this short, I believe that the responsibilities of artists depend on what their art is for and who will see it. An artist making art for children has more responsibility not to harmfully influence the audience than an artist making content for adults. Artists writing for a niche audience do not have the same responsibilities as artists writing for a general audience. Writers on AO3 have different responsibilities than writers who seek to publish their work and potentially have their book on shelves in libraries and bookstores.

Due to the niche and insular nature of AO3, as well as the tagging system, and the lack of profit incentive, I believe writers on AO3 have relatively few responsibilities towards their audiences. The one important responsibility AO3 authors have is to tag their works appropriately so that those who want to read the content can find it and those who wish to avoid the content can avoid it. I also have the hard-to-prove feeling that there should be some places like AO3 where people can write problematic and even horribly disturbing content, so long as it is a non-profit platform with a tagging system that limits the likelihood of people reading anything with content they don't want to read. Due to this, I fit in best with the proshipping crowd and would call myself proship if asked, despite thinking the entire discourse is wild.

I wrote this to put my views on shipping discourse so everyone knows where I stand and I can link to this if anyone asks me haha

harassing real people over fictional things that are taboo/problematic doesn’t make you morally superior by the way. it just makes you a bully