If reading all this feels impossible to you, maybe internet discourse just isn’t your thing. Go stare at a tree for a bit or train your attention span. You can’t seriously expect to debate nuanced topics when a single page of text is apparently too much work.
Read this carefully, because I’m not going to keep repeating myself here or anywhere else. I enjoy “darkshipping”, and I’m not interested in policing what people engage with in fiction. That said, I don’t personally agree with the idea that fiction and reality are completely separate with no overlap. I think media can influence people, culture, and the way we think, even if it isn’t a direct one-to-one reflection of real life behavior.
I don’t like using labels (including ones like “profic”) or trying to fit myself neatly into one category or another, and I don’t feel like I have to. If you have an idea about me or what I think already planted in your head, you can have that opinion, just know that I don’t care.
If anything, I’m pro-minding my own fucking business. Do I engage in every “dark ship,” kink, or controversial topic myself? Obviously not. Do I care if other adults do? Also no, because I’m not in their bedroom, their head, or anywhere else.
At the same time I don’t believe people should be targeted, bullied, or harassed over what they may or may not enjoy in fiction or fandom spaces. People are responsible for their own boundaries and how they curate their online spaces, and that includes not invading others’ spaces just to attack them over content they dislike.
I genuinely don’t care what fictional content consenting adults engage with, including things other people might find uncomfortable or disturbing. I’m not interested in acting as a moral authority over strangers’ private interests or fantasies. Adults are also allowed to discuss sexuality openly in spaces specifically meant for adults, and if someone chooses to enter those spaces, they are responsible for how they engage with what they find there.
You’re allowed to engage with different kinds of fiction, and other people are allowed to do the same without being subjected to harassment for it.
TLDR the entire convo is nuanced, as long as real children are not involved I do not care and you probably shouldn’t either. If you do, you will not like me. Sorry! I just really don’t GAF 😭
As for RPF/RPS, my stance is honestly that it’s not that deep. At the end of the day it’s basically celebrity culture and fandom taken in a slightly more imaginative direction. People have always had celebrity crushes, people have always speculated, projected, joked, and engaged with public figures as characters in their heads to some extent — this is just that with extra steps and better tagging systems.
I’m not interested in moral panic about it or pretending it exists in some completely separate universe from how people already engage with public personas online. It’s fandom behavior, just directed at real people who are already heavily mediated by media, branding, and performance.
That said, I also think basic respect still applies in real life. Engaging with RPF doesn’t erase the fact that these are real humans with real boundaries — it’s just fiction-adjacent interpretation, not a free pass to be weird in their actual space.
So yeah. It’s not something I treat as inherently shocking or special. It’s just another corner of fandom behavior that people overcomplicate for no reason.
txto