hey, i just wanna say--i see you're a proshipper, and although i do not support proshipping, i also see that you are not only quite young, but also clearly not doing well emotionally. i'm not here to attack you, i'm just here to say some things that i wish i would have heard in your situation.
i used to (sort of) be a proshipper when i was around your age, and i'm guessing it's something that brings you comfort/enjoyment at a time where you're not feeling too good. but, it's not something that will be healthy for you in the long run. i know because i feel horribly guilty for the kind of content and stuff i made/engaged with when i was younger, and it still haunts me to this day.
it can be hard to explain why certain things are wrong when you believe they're fine, especially in a fictional context--after all, i know a lot of proshippers believe fiction doesn't affect reality. however, it does. and i know it does because the joy, the sadness, the excitement and [cont.]
the catharsis i feel towards my favorite characters and ships, is the fiction affecting me. if you have ever cried over a movie or cartoon, that is the fiction affecting you. and if you are constantly seeing certain things, those things get normalized to you.
proshipping can be very dangerous. it warps your sense of reality, and what is right or wrong, if you aren't vigilant of what you are looking at and drawing. i ended up hurting and traumatizing one of my best friends due to certain types of abuse being normalized to me, and the two of us going on to write that abuse between two of our characters. we are still friends now, but its something i deeply, horribly regret to this day, and is something that will always haunt me.
a lot of people are very aggressive towards proshippers, which often comes from a place of hurt or shock. which is understandable! but being so aggressive also isolates those who need help and companionship, especially minors, ESPECIALLY minors who [cont]
are underage like you. when you are isolated, you look for friends in places you really shouldn't.
you did not deserve to be told to d!3 over your andy and leyley drawing. i do not like the ship--i think it is quite gross and shouldn't be on here--but you deserve better.
i guess what i want to say is, rethink your proshipping stance a bit. rethink where you first learned about it, be it from a person or from a piece of media, and why they support it. if an older person--particularly an adult--led you into proshipping, then they are likely a dangerous individual who only wants to hurt you and gr00nm you. most people who are older and proshippers know fully well what they are doing, which is disgusting.
i just hope you are doing okay. i don't want to be your friend, as i am almost 10 years older than you, and i think we don't have much in common. and i think it's just a little strange for an adult stranger on the internet to be friends with someone so much younger than them. [cont]
but i do wish you well and that you have friends and family who love you. and if you don't, i hope you can find people who will love you. i'm sorry if this wall of text is scary or frightening at all, i don't mean for it to be :'D
I think i read that too many times and still didnt understand why you had to write this. I know that i brought to me bad attentions and probably hate, but i was tired of feeling alone and Ignored.
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26 May, 2025, 2:33 pm
hey, i just wanna say--i see you're a proshipper, and although i do not support proshipping, i also see that you are not only quite young, but also clearly not doing well emotionally. i'm not here to attack you, i'm just here to say some things that i wish i would have heard in your situation.
i used to (sort of) be a proshipper when i was around your age, and i'm guessing it's something that brings you comfort/enjoyment at a time where you're not feeling too good. but, it's not something that will be healthy for you in the long run. i know because i feel horribly guilty for the kind of content and stuff i made/engaged with when i was younger, and it still haunts me to this day.
it can be hard to explain why certain things are wrong when you believe they're fine, especially in a fictional context--after all, i know a lot of proshippers believe fiction doesn't affect reality. however, it does. and i know it does because the joy, the sadness, the excitement and [cont.]
26 May, 2025, 2:41 pm
the catharsis i feel towards my favorite characters and ships, is the fiction affecting me. if you have ever cried over a movie or cartoon, that is the fiction affecting you. and if you are constantly seeing certain things, those things get normalized to you.
proshipping can be very dangerous. it warps your sense of reality, and what is right or wrong, if you aren't vigilant of what you are looking at and drawing. i ended up hurting and traumatizing one of my best friends due to certain types of abuse being normalized to me, and the two of us going on to write that abuse between two of our characters. we are still friends now, but its something i deeply, horribly regret to this day, and is something that will always haunt me.
a lot of people are very aggressive towards proshippers, which often comes from a place of hurt or shock. which is understandable! but being so aggressive also isolates those who need help and companionship, especially minors, ESPECIALLY minors who [cont]
26 May, 2025, 2:48 pm
are underage like you. when you are isolated, you look for friends in places you really shouldn't.
you did not deserve to be told to d!3 over your andy and leyley drawing. i do not like the ship--i think it is quite gross and shouldn't be on here--but you deserve better.
i guess what i want to say is, rethink your proshipping stance a bit. rethink where you first learned about it, be it from a person or from a piece of media, and why they support it. if an older person--particularly an adult--led you into proshipping, then they are likely a dangerous individual who only wants to hurt you and gr00nm you. most people who are older and proshippers know fully well what they are doing, which is disgusting.
i just hope you are doing okay. i don't want to be your friend, as i am almost 10 years older than you, and i think we don't have much in common. and i think it's just a little strange for an adult stranger on the internet to be friends with someone so much younger than them. [cont]
26 May, 2025, 2:50 pm
but i do wish you well and that you have friends and family who love you. and if you don't, i hope you can find people who will love you. i'm sorry if this wall of text is scary or frightening at all, i don't mean for it to be :'D
27 May, 2025, 2:37 pm
I think i read that too many times and still didnt understand why you had to write this. I know that i brought to me bad attentions and probably hate, but i was tired of feeling alone and Ignored.