just got online why is every talking about com/darkshippers LMAAOOO okay lemme give my two cents kk

although i feel bad for the harassment many people give them, i do not agree with their ideals or ships in any sense of the word. as a victim of grooming* myself i feel like their arguments and what they stand for are extremely insensitive, and i find it very hard to see as a "coping mechanism", as they're only validating snd even romanticizing the abuse they went through via fictional characters and relationships. fiction DOES affect reality, as fiction mirrors reality and real things that do happen. think of political cartoons, PSAs,, they were fictional situations- but they still changed how people thought and felt towards real people and situations. all of this to say darkshipping + comshipping is mainly bad, obviously,,.. as for proshipping, i dislike how the term has been misused and converted into a synonym for the former terms, but i disagree how many of the people identifying with it do the same thing as darkshippers (undermining/ignoring the broader issue of why people hate taboo shipping)

sorry if i worded anything wrong! i usually think through every statement or opinion i post online, but i just typed this all out on the fly :9 i'll happily clarify anything if you're confused