Comships and Proships

If you do not want to hear my opinions on proshippers, please do not click on: "Terms and Validity" and "Harmfulness."
TW: "Extra Emojis" contains highly sensitive content.

Terms & Validity

The validity of certain types of proshipping is as follows:

  • Proshipper (shipping term): SOME proshippers are absolutely valid. Proshippers are people who like or consume content regarding rarepairs, complex ships, etc. And though it doesn't have to, it can include romanticization of illegal behaviors. Even so, it can also be perfectly valid and legal. Depending on the person, proshipping can also be accepting all types of ships, which is controversial and invalid (see "Is It Bad?" for more details). Some simply believe people shouldn’t be harassed for their ships, problematic or not, which is generally valid, but can be seen as invalid (it's complicated).

  • Comshipper (shipping term): Comshippers are shippers who ship complex ships that aren't necessarily illegal or problematic (ex: human x monster, minor x minor, etc). Some, on the other hand, can ship illegal things and consider themselves to be darkshippers. Those people are most likely not valid (see "Is It Bad?" for more details). In other words, some comshippers are valid. All darkshippers are comshippers, but not all comshippers are darkshippers. And, not all proshippers are comshippers, and not all comshippers are proshippers.

  • Darkshipper (shipping term): Darkshippers are possibly valid (see "Is It Bad?" for details). Darkshippers are people who ship illegal, dark, and controversial things. (ex: inc3st, non-con, p3dophilia, etc).

  • Selfshipper (shipping term): Selfshippers are people who ship themselves with fictional characters. Selfshippers are mostly valid, but there are some selfshippers who ship themselves with minors or siblings, and that isn't valid.

  • Doveshipper (shipping term): A doveshipper is someone who ships strictly SFW (safe for work)/fluff ships. They are valid.

  • Multishipper (shipping term): Multishippers are people who ship characters with multiple people. They are valid.

  • Yumeshipper (shipping term): A yumeshipper is someone who creates a character (or uses an existing one) to ship themselves with a character. They are likely valid, but some yumeshippers use their persona to fetishize certain things (ex: using a male character as a female, to ship yourself with another male character because they are queer).

  • Lightshipper (shipping term): A lightshipper is someone who is a comshipper and does not like illegal, controversial, or dark elements in ships. They are 100% valid, but may be overjudgmental to others because of their separate views on things.

  • Neushipper (shipping term): A neushipper is someone who isn't a proshipper or an anti-shipper. These people are very valid.

  • Onionshipper (shipping term): An onionshipper is someone who claims to be an anti-shipper, but is actually a proshipper in denial. They have proshipper beliefs, but they don't realize it. This term is used on other people by proshippers. Onionshippers are often not valid because they usually get called onionshippers for harassing others despite having proshipper beliefs.

  • Crackshipper (shipping term): A crackshipper is someone who ships rarepairs but on crack. They often seem like characters that never interact, but are shipped together. Crackshippers are often valid, but can be over-defensive of their ships that don't have chemistry.

  • Anti-shipper (shipping term): An anti-shipper is someone who opposes and harasses proshippers for their beliefs. Anti-shippers can be valid, but are often not very valid for their aggression towards others.

  • Profiction (general term): People who are "profiction," believe that their fictional enjoyment does not correlate with their real-life perspective on things. Profiction people can be valid, but it is a controversial topic.

  • Darkfiction (general term): People who support darkfiction are people who consume media containing darkships (illegal or dark things), but only in fictional works. Darkshippers can be valid, but often are not seen as valid.

  • Peacefic (general term): People who support peacefics stay neutral on darkfic and lightfic terms. They are valid.

  • Dead dove, do not eat (general term): DDDNE is a trigger warning term for graphic content. If you don't like it, don't interact. That is often valid, but some argue that graphic content shouldn't be shown to begin with.

Emojis

Proship Emojis
🍖🌈 / 🍓🍰 / 🌻🪁 / 🥀🕊️ / 🪐🌌 / 🌱☁️ / 🍋🎀 / 🥩🍗 / 💌⛵️ /🍥🐾 /🐰🌷/🦈💥/🦭🦴
Profiction Emojis
🍋🌈 / 🎉🖋️ / 🧊🍭 / 🎨🍡 / 🕊️🖌️ / 🔏🫀 / 🫀🌙 / 📝🌸 / 🍡🐾
Comship Emojis
🌸🌙 / 🕊️⚠️ / ⛸️☁️ / 🥀🧷 / 🫧☁️ / 🕊️🍋 / 🌈🐾 / 🦇🎀 / 🎀🧁 / 🍥🍓
Darkship Emojis
🥨🕯️ / 🎱🎀 / 🔪💎/ 🥩🍽/🪼🫧
Selfship Emojis
🫂🌟 / 🍪🎧 / 💌🎈 / 🗝️❤️ / 🍓🌟/💜🚀
Doveship Emojis
🕊️🌱💌
Darkfiction Emojis
📖🖤 / 🥨🕯️ / ☠️❤️ / ☠️❣️ / ☠️🌈
Ex-Anti Emojis
🧩🥀 / 🧩🛳️ / 🧼🧡
Antis DNI Emojis
🐜🚫
Anti-Anti Emojis
🥩🌈 / 🍄🥩
Anti-ship/Fancop Emojis
🐜🍵 / 🥞🌙 / 🎈✂️ / 💥🥩 / 🍷🍀 / 🌈🏀 / 🥬⚡
Dead Dove, Do Not Eat Emojis
🕊️⚰️ / 🪦🕊️
Multiship Emojis
🌸🎻/🌍♾
Lightship Emojis
💿🫧
Peacefic Emojis
☮️📝
Neuship Emojis
☮️🐶/🌈🫧/🐶🫧
Onionship Emoji
🧅
Rarepair Emojis
🔮💫
Crackship Emojis
🥭🌈/🦄💎

Extra Emojis

💌🍓 : lesbian proshipper
💌🍒 / 🌸💘 : sapphic proshipper
📃🍇 : gay proshipper
🥀☁️ : non-con
📚☕ : age gap
🌺💫 : gr00ming
🍡🌸 : lolisho
🐰🎀 : l0li
🍯🧸 : sh0ta
🚪🔒 : siblings
💀🖤 : necro
💞🔒 : depenancy
🧭💊 : drgging
🩹❤️🩹 : abse
🕊⚰️ : dead dove: do not eat
🧠 🌱 neurodivergent proshipper
💊🌱 mentally ill proshipper
🌈🐺 / 🌈🐈 furry proshipper
🍟🐾 traumatised proshipper
🍿🐾 traumatised comshipper
🍭🪓 absive l0licon
🧸🚬 absive sh0tacon
🧼🍰 fluff profiction
🧇🎈 profiction to cope
🌈🫘 queer/lgbt+ profiction
\🫧🪷 agender comshipper
\🍓☁️ / 💐🌟 / 🫂🌙 proship / comship system
🧴✒️ "l3wd" / nsfw writer
🧼🫧 sfw shipper
🕰️💿 / 💗🗝️ nsfw shipper
🚂🔪 evil autistic sh0tacon
🌺💫 comshipper who can't get therapy
❣️⚡️ matches antis' energies
🪐🪶 / 💤💋 uninterested in discourse
🎎🌈 plural comshipper
👾🎮 chronically online comshipper
🐾🌈 therian comshipper
🕊️🌈 otherkin comshipper
🏵️🥧 was absed by an anti
🥀🛳️ hates antis
🖍️🎨 comshipper who draws their favourite ships
🧭🏹 fictionkin comshipper
🌌🌙 spiritual comshipper
💟✨ religious comshipper
🎭🌈 anti on main, proship on alt
🎹🕸️ emo/scenemo proshipper
🦴💌 "c@nnibal" proshipper
🐜🚫 anti-anti / antis DNI
🎊🍇 rarepair shipper
🕯️🖊️ spiteshipper
🐈🦀 crosshipper
👾💻 internet freak and proud
🎃🖍️ spooky month comshipper
🦴💭 spooky month profiction
🏠🌙 homestuck comshipper
🏠🌈 homestuck profiction
📺🌙 mandela catelogue comshipper
📺🌈 mandela catelogue profiction
🎤🌈 vocaloid / utaloid comshipper
🎮🌈 mcyt comshipper
👑🌈 empires smp comshipper
💛✨ dsmp truther
🧩🍸 minor x adult
🍡🌸underage
🍡💫 idol x fan
🍓🥀 young girl x older woman
🥞🌺 babysitter x babysat
🌀☁️ dubcon
🌀💤 somnophilia
🔮💫 mind control
💻🍬 online grooming
🪫💌 emotionally co-dependent
💞🔒 emotionally dependent
🏵️🖼️ cheating / infidelity
🗯️🍨 dcryphilia
💉💊 doctor x patient
🥛💎 power imbalance
🧭💊 drg use
🩹❤️ abse
🍫⛓️ kidnapper x victim
🦴🫙 abser x victim
💣💥 love-hate relationship
💌🩸 yandere
🍫🕸️ stockholm syndrome
📷💘stalking
🖍️📒 teacher x student
🛎👑 butler x master
👔📊 boss x employee
🍓🕸️ toxic relationship
🌸⛱️ kidnapping
💫🐏 cult themes
❤️💣 love bombing
🔪🧠 mind break
🫂🩸 toxic selfship
🩸💕 inc3st
🔥🍄 absive inc3st
🥥🥛 pseudo-inc3st
👒🧃 sisc0n
🪁🧃 broc0n
💏👥 / 🧺🧃 sibc0n
🍺🎀 father x daughter
🧋🎀 mother x daughter
🍺🍯 father x son
🧋🍯 mother x son
🍒💖 twincest
👥💖 selfcest
💗👑 princess x queen
💫👑 prince x king
🧁🦠 absive sisc0n
🍭🍰 loli sisc0n
🧸🍿 sh0ta broc0n
💋🪢 absive older sister x victim younger brother
♾️🐢 polyam tcest
🔀🐢 cross-fandom tcest
🎒🍫 nanac0n
💀🍭 cronac0n
🚂🔪 evil autistic sh0tacon
🦇🎀 monster x lolisho
🍭🍰 l0li sisc0n
🧸🍿 sh0ta broc0n
🎀🚬 l0li x dilf
🎀🍉 l0li x milf
🧸🍉 sh0ta x milf
🧸🚬 absive sh0tacon / sh0ta x dilf
🍭🪓 absive lolic0n
🌷🎀 l0li x l0li
🪀🍯 sh0ta x sh0ta
🍯🎀 l0li x sh0ta
🍭🐾 nonhuman lolisho
🌈♂️ scene lolisho x dilf
🧬🐾 🐾🎭 interspecies
⏰⌛️ human x immortal
🪦🫀monster x human
🤖🫀 robot x human
👾💀 monster x monster
🐾✋ nonhuman x human
🍭🐾 nonhuman lolisho
💀🖤 ncrophilia
🌹👻 absive necro
🔪🩸 s*domasochism
⛓️🌷 trafficking
🍓🔩 exclusively s3xual ship
❄️🎶 a ship based off a song
👁️🗨️🫀 pretend / fake relationship
🥽🥩 cross-fandom comship
♾️🌟 polyam comship
💐🫀 comship in a kids show
🏴☠️🌸 canon comship
🏵️☁️ like eachother but never get together
🍵🌸 queerplatonic ship
💔🩹 hurt/comfort
💔🚫 hurt/no comfort

Is It Bad?

The different sides of proshipping:
Proshipping insights and normalizes potentially harmful topics that may carry over in real life. Though most proshippers allow all types of ships in fiction, many predators can use the community to fulfill their desires. This can create a safe place for predators to arise and interact with others. After discovering that some support their idealizations, they may commit actual illegal activities through the community. Proshippers may also romanticize the concept of illegal ships and behaviors.On the other hand, proshipping can allow people who went through sexual trauma to heal from their trauma and process it. It can also help them feel less alone in regards to their trauma. Many believe that fiction and reality are two very separate things, and it is the fault of the people that blur the lines between the two, rather than the proshippers themselves.Anti-shippers would likely say that pro-shippers normalise stuff like lack of consent, incest, underage relationships, etc, by writing about it and promoting acceptance. Proshippers would say that there's a clear line between fiction and reality, that fic writing can help process trauma, and that purity culture helps no one.Both proshippers and anti-shippers have their own points to make in regards to proshipping. The question is: Which side is most accurate in their statements?My opinion: I think that as long as the proshipper isn't an abuser and isn't supporting abusers, proshippers are essentially valid. You shouldn't normalize shipping minors or siblings, etc, but if they are fictional, you can really do whatever it is that you want. Even though it is absolutely something you shouldn't do in real life, fictional characters aren't real. It is odd if you enjoy the idea of certain proships, and you probably need to get help if that is the case. Otherwise, proships don't really do anything to harm the community aside from grossing them out. Sure, it is disgusting to ship certain things, but that doesn't mean you'd replicate it in real life. It's not inherently bad if they aren't real. The only bad thing is that it is possible that people may normalize the behavior in real life, which most proshippers don't support or do.Concerns about proshipping:
- You can ship what you want, but why do you want to ship inc3st? Why do you want to ship p3dophilia?
- You must realize that normalizing p3dophilia and incest as positive and romantic concepts can have harmful effects on an audience. Children could think that adults pursuing them are simply being romantic because of YOU.
- Kids don’t inherently understand that an adult pursuing them is bad. They don’t inherently know how to get out of absive situations. P3dophiles DO use p3dophilic content to groom victims, fictional content included.
- Exploring a dark topic is very different from romanticizing and promoting it, though. A trans person writing about the transphobia and abse they have endured is very different from a transphobe drawing trans people being boiled alive.Also, please note that most proshippers are actually minors who have gone through trauma (usually s3xual trauma), and that is why they are proshippers.