This is how I feel about the drama about d rkship that has been going on in a certain circle of Scratchers. The contents of this are: 1. What's happening? 2. My opinion. 3. Why this is harmful. 4. My shoes, their shoes, your shoes. Warning: mentioning d rkship, pr ship ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A Scratcher who I will call PAW has had rumors circulation about them. A week or two ago, they posted an "about me" Scratch creation that said their interests, their age, preferred name, and so on. On about the 5th, 6th, or 7th slide, they said that they were a pr shipper due to trauma. Their own partner (who didn't know) made a post, saying that pr shippers and d rkshippers should not blame it on trauma because "you didn't choose to have trauma but you can choose to be a good person..." After some days, the shipper made a post that they were moving to an alternate account because of the hate that they were getting. In this post, PAW called many people "snowflakes" and showed their anger for the immense amount of hate they received. To me, PAW isn't right. At the beginning of this, PAW already said that they were a pr shipper. In my knowledge, that means they are a pr shipper, a shipper that believes in all ships and freedom of shipping (I don't like this, this gives support to disgusting stuff.) I believe trauma isn't a reason to purposefully support things my account would get banned for saying. If PAW had trauma with things my account would be banned for saying, then I give my deepest condolences and sympathy to them. However, I do not have empathy, for I simply cannot see the reasoning behind why this trauma would make them want to see it happen again, but with fictional characters. It seems PAW is just making these ships so that they can feel what happened again, or they can relate to the characters more by putting them through the struggles they had. However, I don't want to put words in PAW's mouth, so remember that's just one of MY ideas to make this make sense. The pr shipping isn't the worst part, though. In response to the hate they received, and even a post from their own partner about how deceived and sad the partner feels, PAW called everyone a snowflake and not an apology left their keyboard. They said "y'all gots 2 understand. not everyone on the internet is the goody two shoes person y'all thinkin they r ESPECIALLY ME. if u don't like me, good for you! thank u. blabla bla I could care less and I am NOT arguing w/ someone through a computer screen yo but yeah. ppl r butthurt and talking and exaggerating things..." This is what seems to be dismissive rambling about what's going on and refusal of accountability. Their partner is not having an easy time either. PAW is treating them like everyone else, like the partner is just another hater who's post they didn't care about. The partner has a very hard life at home and now it seems they don't have anyone to turn to. PAW is spoon feeding themself their own ego, while their partner is starving. Now, it's time to remember that we can't truly understand what is happening. Trauma can alter a person's ideas of how things work, like relationships and such. To put yourself in their shoes, think of a time when you were young and your parents or someone near you told you an opinion and consistently reinforced that into your mind. Are you still free of that opinion? When you think of that subject, can you forget them? Maybe not. Maybe PAW can't either.
