WHAT IS PEACEFIC?
Simply put, being peacefic is to be peaceful about fiction. This term is not the same as proship. Check out the rest of the carrd to learn more:
The term peacefic can apply to you if you share the following beliefs:
You are against harassment, death threats, suicide baiting, and doxxing
You are against real life abuse and grooming
You are against explicit content of real minors
You are against real person shipping unless the people being shipped have consented
You believe it is inappropriate and immature for adults to spend their free time trying to pull one over on children in internet discourse fights
You believe it is inappropriate and cruel to demand information about people's trauma in order to determine whether they are "allowed" to create or consume dark fictional content for coping purposes
You believe that it is harmful when problematic (but legal) fictional content is reported to the authorities, wasting their time and taking away resources that should be spent helping real victims
You are in favor of using content warnings
You are in favor of curating your online experience via blocking, muting, and just generally avoiding content that you dont like for whatever reason
Your opinions on the following do not affect whether or not you can consider yourself peacefic:
Whether or not you support the creation and consumption of problematic fictional content, including things like pedophilia, incest, or abuse
Whether or not you, personally, enjoy problematic fictional content
Whether or not you consider yourself to be an anti, proship, profic, comship, neuship, neufic, etc.
This term is multipurpose. It can be used alone, or in combination with other existing terms.
A peacefic anti is someone who considers themself an anti or antishipper, but is staunchly against harassment, even of those who create and consume fictional content they find abhorrent. They may block proshippers, put them on a "do not interact" list, or complain about proshippers to their friends, but they would never harass, doxx, or suicide bait them.
A peacefic proshipper is someone who considers themself a proshipper, but is staunchly against harassment, even of those who find their content disgusting. They may block antis, put them on a "do not interact" list, or complain about antis to their friends, but they would never harass, doxx, or suicide bait them.
Peacefic may be combined with other existing terms, such as comship, profic, neuship, neufic, etc.
Peacefic may be used alone as its own discourse stance. Someone who solely considers themself peacefic is against harassment from all sides, cares about minor safety, and does not feel comfortable with using proship, anti, or other labels. They may or may not engage at all with ship/fiction discourse.
The term peacefic has been created in order to signify who is a peaceful, non-aggressive party in ship/fiction discourse, regardless of their individual opinions on problematic fictional content. There's a lot a fear tied to ship/fiction discourse, currently. People on any side fear that others may be out to get them—and for good reason! There is a long history of suicide baiting and doxxing over discourse opinions, as well as a history of both antis and proshippers using their labels to try and get away with grooming real minors.Proship and anti labels describe the kinds of content you support or oppose (though many proshippers do not personally consume problematic content, they support others who do). Peacefic was created to describe a moral standard you uphold while supporting or opposing that content....Or ignoring that content!
Some may believe that the proship label is already sufficiently against harassment, but in practice, that isn't true. Both proshippers and antis have been known to harass and attack each other without provocation.Someone setting boundaries is not an attack. Someone being uncomfortable with certain kinds of content is not an attack. Ignoring someone's boundaries to ridicule and harass them just because you disagree with their fiction discourse opinions is always wrong.To be peacefic is to value real people's lives over fictional characters, and yes, that includes the people who oppose you.
Harassment will not change someone's mind. Nine times out of ten it will just make someone double down on their beliefs. If you feel they don't deserve your kindness, block them.
As peacefic is a newly coined term, currently, the only certain signifier that someone is peacefic is if they refer to themself as peacefic. In the future, this carrd may be updated with additional signifiers, such as symbols, emoji combos, or flags.One potential emoji combo that could be used to signal a peacefic stance is: ☮️📝