SPECIFICALLY refers to enjoying or imagining (two or more) characters in NON-CANON romantic, sexual, or otherwise implicative situations with each other. However, shipping also has to do with taking canon material and either appreciating what is already there, or building off of it/warping it to - ThreadSky

spideryouthanasia.bsky.social • 14 days ago

SPECIFICALLY refers to enjoying or imagining (two or more) characters in NON-CANON romantic, sexual, or otherwise implicative situations with each other. However, shipping also has to do with taking canon material and either appreciating what is already there, or building off of it/warping it to

Comments

spideryouthanasia.bsky.social•14 days ago

play around with the dynamics and material present. This may include simply appreciating any canon material the ship does have, or editing canon material to suit the ship better. In general though, shipping has more to do with fanworks and fan imagination than canon material.

spideryouthanasia.bsky.social•14 days ago

Platonic: (of love or friendship) intimate and affectionate but not sexual

(Taken from the dictionary btw. Notice how it isn't only referring to friendship, it mostly refers to the lack of sex between either lovers or friends).

spideryouthanasia.bsky.social•14 days ago

The Hays Code: set of guidelines, self-imposed by Hollywood studios, regulating the moral content of films produced from 1934 to 1968. The Hays Code forbade the use of profanity, obscenity, and racial slurs and included detailed instructions outlining how certain topics should be shown on screen,

spideryouthanasia.bsky.social•14 days ago

especially proscribing graphic violence, criminality, substance use, promiscuity, miscegenation, and homosexuality. It was replaced in 1968 by the motion-picture rating system still in use today.

It's important to note that it did more than just censor what was "offensive", but caused extreme

spideryouthanasia.bsky.social•14 days ago

and discriminatory censorship to the point where if there was even a hint of an implication that a character could be queer, they either had to die by the end of the film, or end up with the opposite gender. Most of the rules were heavily rooted in things like cultural Christianity, white supremacy,

spideryouthanasia.bsky.social•14 days ago

homophobia, transphobia, racism, the conflation of morality and legality (at a time where homosexuality was illegal, mind you), and conservatism and their associated morals as well.

Comments

Posting Rules

Reply