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I’m gonna be honest sometimes I really regret being a “proshipper” and having weird kinks. Just bc everyone else takes it so seriously. My trauma gave me weird coping mechanisms and kinks. My therapists have never told me to stop using fiction to cope.
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Anonymous 2d

Like I don’t know what to do bc like. If you keep it secret, people may still find out and will be incredibly pissed at you do supposedly tricking them. If you’re open about it, people will also be incredibly pissed at you for existing. And listen I already want to die I am tired of random internet strangers who don’t know a thing about me telling me to kill myself

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Anonymous 2d

I am not against pro-shipping, I am only against people who use their love of it to intentionally provoke others. As long as everyone involved (pro/anti) understands that not every THING is for everyONE, there’s no problem in my eyes. But I sympathise with therapy and kinks and trauma etc.

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Anonymous 1d

I feel the same way :/ because of past trauma I’m into violent and noncon/dubcon material but people seem to insist there’s no separation of fiction and reality. I fucking loathe abusers and never want to experience what I went to through again, but for some reason seeing my faves go through something similar brings me a weird sense of comfort

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Anonymous 2d

i think that if fiction is the best thing that helps you organize your thoughts & feelings, & it just happens to be in the form of kinks, especially if recommended by a therapist, then go for it

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Anonymous 8h

Yeah I don’t understand why everyone is so against it, even as someone who hates reading that sort of stuff. I’d say everyone should be able to read/write what they want, but if you’re writing on a public website like Ao3, to be sure to tag it so those who dislike/are triggered by it are able to avoid it and everyone wins

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2d

The realization that all of my biggest kinks come from trauma, if not insecurities then like actual specific traumatic events is Wow!!! 😀

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1d

I get you. The most frustrating thing for me is genuinely how unwilling a lot of people are to hear us out. Genuinely I can’t blame someone for being uncomfortable about it, but people almost never try to understand or give the benefit of the doubt and it sucks.

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