a misconception fancops seem to have about people who like or create problematic content is that they think all the content we like or create is filtered through that problematic lens & ymmv but just for me personally, this is not the case.

i'm seeing it now with this TMNT wank where ppl think that there's something duplicitous or shady about people who can talk about these turtles in a shippy nsfw context but then also talk about them in a platonic non-incestuous sfw context as well.

i've also seen fancops express dismay that someone can write fic where two characters have a platonic relationship but then also write fic where they have a sexual relationship as though the latter informs on and taints the former

they don't understand that you can enjoy multiple takes on characters. you can enjoy or create content where two brothers are just regular brothers & also enjoy content or create content where those brothers fuck & these have little to do with each other.

i've written fic where two characters fucked...but i've also written gen fic about the same two characters & them fucking in a previous fic had nothing to do with it. i'm happy to talk about shippy & nsfw headcanons but i also have hcs for the same ships if they were platonic.

for most people i know who are into these ships & content, it's the same. we contain multitudes & aren't restricted to viewing a ship as either romantic or platonic or sexual. we can view them in different ways depending on our mood & who we're discussing them with.

this has always been the way things have been since i first got into fandom but it seems with younger people the lines are much stricter -- you either view a ship as platonic or not & there's no room to view it in multiple ways. it's a much more black & white way of doing fandom