Use your brain maybe.
Tag: shipping
Hopefully this doesn’t sound too hypocritical, but I need to rant for minute. I hate how people assume that you ship ALL incestous or age gapped ships equally because you like one ship of that nature. For example, I’m fine with incest ships that are cousincest and siblingcest and in which both partners are adults or teenagers, but I’m not comfortable shipping parent/child ships or ships in which the younger one is under 15. Likewise, I’m fine with adult/teen ships but adult/child squicks me out
Wow… this person spoke my mind word for word here. ^_^ ❤ It’s not hypocritical to express preference. Everyone has preferences. Expressing them is just being honest. My OC pair are same-age first cousins (both 15 when they fall in love). They’re mature for their age due to certain life experiences. I love teen romance because you can watch the characters grow into adults.
I love the energy of our shipping community…
…but, we shouldn’t be shipping every related character that appear on a screen. Lets celebrate consanguineous relationships when they are merited. Lets not come off as desperate or untactful within our passions.
With you 100% on this sentiment.
I make fan videos as a hobby. I haven’t shipped incest before but I’ve been leaning towards shipping it. The main reason I haven’t before was because I’m very picky with dynamics… I only ship when I feel a personal connection with the characters or storyline.
And I have other, non-incest ideas I still need to get to. But I’d love to make some for consang pairs sometime… just need to decide which ones.
I have no desire to ship all related characters. I don’t think it’s necessary, since there are ones with genuine chemistry out there who should have more of a spotlight (like from Borgia). I respect that people have their fantasies but I prefer when there is chemistry and actual mutuality in the love.
Also, shipping all related characters implies that platonic love is not as valuable or full as romantic love, and I disagree with that. I believe platonic love is just as important, just in a different way and some related characters I prefer to be platonic cause that’s what their dynamic suggests.
Hi! Not to bother you or anything but I’m feeling really down lately because the majority of my friends have the automatic mindset that incest is terrible and always ALWAYS nonconsensual and anyone who ships it is a bad person and complains and I just need a reminder that there are more rationalize people beyond this awful mindset the people I know have
Anon, that is awful. I’m so sorry. That must be so hard for you.
This kind of mindset infuriates me.
incest ≠ abuse: abuse = abuse
Anyone who thinks incest is always non-consensual really needs to take a long hard look at the fact that they’re not thinking critically if they’re so sure about something and cannot even consider possible exceptions.
While there are a lot of ways in which a person can become brainwashed (for lack of a better word), it’s also really disrespectful and takes away a person’s agency to assume that they’re not consenting to something that they say they are consenting to. Like, just maybe there’s a chance they know themselves better than you know them, you know? (I’m talking about adults here, obviously.)
Obviously incest shippers are not bad people for shipping incest! Even if incest definitely was a bad bad thing, shipping it does not make you a bad person. WE ARE NOT HURTING ANYONE.
And even through all the convoluted arguments about how someone might potentially eventually be hurt through incest shipping, the wrongdoing is not on us.
(Obviously we must do what we can to be respectful.)
fullmarriageequality and rainbowamory are two sites with a lot of great discourse about consensual incest and fighting that kind of mindset.
I’m sorry you have to deal with that, Anon!
I’m not saying you should speak up to your friends or anything – I can understand why you wouldn’t, and given the circumstances I would probably advise against it – but I do have to wonder what effect it would have if someone they respected were to disagree with them.
Hey shipcestuous, it’s very sweet of you to mention my page on your post. 🙂 I’m with you on the points you made in your response (especially the bit about thinking critically). I’d also like to add, anon, that you don’t have to have anyone’s permission or blessing to believe in what you believe. If they took a moment to get the facts and challenge their ignorance, your friends might think differently. But often times people don’t think about these things unless they’re confronted with it in a more immediate sense (like if someone in their own family or a friend they are really close gets involved in that kind of relationship). If your friends are willing, you should give them a good book or something that explores the topic of incest in an alternative way (focusing on consensual acts & relationships). It might compel them to open their mind.
rainbowamory 