So I Saw Some Discourse Online About Some Ships In The One Piece Fandom Recently, And I Felt Like I Should

So I saw some discourse online about some ships in the one piece fandom recently, and I felt like I should say something.

1. If you’re not sure about characters’ ages in a ship and you’re worried there might be an age gap you’re not comfortable with, look it up.

2. If someone doesn’t know the characters’ ages when they ship them and it’s a weird age gap, please do not harass and bully them. There’s always the option to inform them of the characters’ actual ages instead (don’t bully or harass anyone actually)

3. If you have a problem with an 8 year age gap between people who are adults (and I get it, it is kind of questionable, but still), you should also have a problem with shipping a 17 year old boy and a woman in her 30s (why are so many LawLu antis also LuBoa supporters? Starting to think it’s not about ages at all…)

And finally, 4. If you do not agree with a ship, simply don’t interact. Do not harass, insult, call out, or otherwise be obnoxious towards the creator of the work. Even if it’s a gross or illegal ship, there’s no reason to go out of your way to engage with the creator (making the work gain more traction) to start a fight for no reason. If you think they might be unaware of the character ages, simply politely inform them. Otherwise, leave it be.

It’s so exhausting to try and see people’s interesting fanart, go to interact and compliment it, and then half the comments and notes are people insulting the creator, especially when it wasn’t even ship art or the creator didn’t know the characters’ canon ages because the art style doesn’t make it very clear (I used to think Law was 20 and Koby/Coby was 12 pre ts because of how they were drawn and portrayed)

Please be kind to others, even if they don’t share the same opinions as you

to those of you who are moving here from tiktok, from someone whos used both tiktok and tumbr for years...

1. DO NOT censor your posts

dont censor sex, abuse, suicide, dont censor it. we dont have censors like tiktok does, you wont be banned for talking about these things and tagging them properly helps people avoid them (also, we dont have shadowbanning here)

2. we dont really have an algorithm

you follow who you follow, and you see posts from who you follow or what you search. the 'for you page' is basically useless here. this also brings me to my next two points

3. dont crosstag

we get it, on tiktok you have to crosstag for reach, but thats not really a thing here. just tag your posts properly (also posters often leave more info about the post in the tags!! and when you reblog stuff you can leave your own notes in the tags, kind of like the old "repost comments" on tiktok)

4. dont expect to go viral/be famous

"viral" isnt really a thing on here (at least not for the average blogger). your posts will probably get 2-10 likes and you wont get nearly as many followers than on tiktok. thats just how tumblr is

5. blocking is your best friend

tiktok is VERY discussion based, and while tumblr is much more discussion based than other social medias, its still not a good place for ragebait/discourse. dont interact, itll make your experience worse in the end, just block and move on

6. you cant go into someone elses house and start rearranging their furniture

this is tumblr, not tiktok. dont diss old tumblr users for how they use the site or try to change them, thats like going into someone elses house and trying to rearrange their furniture. we've been here longer and we're familiar with the site and its culture, either find your niche, adapt, or find a different app

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elssecondaccount

3 weeks ago

reblog if you're gay, not gay, slightly gay, or if you just want to launch donald trump into a dying star

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elssecondaccount

1 month ago

and with your help it can rack up 700k notes on tumblr in 2024

no tumblr this doesnt need tags im releasing it into the wild as god intended

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elssecondaccount

2 months ago

I’m the weirdest kind of extremely online because I would be severely offline if it wasn’t for tumblr. you genuinely can’t reach me anywhere else other than tumblr I simply don’t use other social media. I don’t even like texting or calling people. I only like hanging out with people irl and being on tumblr and reading the weather forecast

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elssecondaccount

4 weeks ago

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elssecondaccount

5 months ago

👏🏾Education 👏🏾is 👏🏾a 👏🏾right,👏🏾 not👏🏾 a👏🏾 service 👏🏾

Pass along and use the shit out of them

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elssecondaccount

1 year ago

As a biromantic asexual myself, I definitely think I should be allowed into LGBTQ+ spaces. Have hear this debate here and there in the past, and the fact that anyone thinks Asexuals should be excluded still baffles me. Same vein of ridiculous as being pro-gay but anti-trans