The Proship Glossary
An alphabetical list of terms that show up in proship spaces, primarily oriented towards Tumblr and it's users.
Warning: This carrd contains non-explicit definitions of sexual terms.
If you have any questions or want to contribute to this carrd, you can reach me at @muttship on tumblr.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Anti | An abbreviated term for an antishipper. |
| Anti-Anti | Meaning "against antis". Another way of saying proship. |
| Anti-c | See "Contact Stance". |
| Antiship | A discourse stance made in reaction to proshipping being the default stance. |
| Antishipper | Someone who is antiship, meaning they are for harassment over fictional ships. |
| Big Three | The three most common harmful paraphilias: pedophilia, zoophilia, and necrophilia. |
| Brocon | A brother/sibling ship, or a character attracted to their brother. |
| Comship | A ship with complicated themes, such as nonhuman x human, mortal x immortal, adult age gaps, ect. |
| Comshipper | Someone who enjoys comships. |
| Contact Stance | How one feels about paraphiles "making contact" with their object of attraction, often in refrence to the Big Three paraphilias. These are often abbrevited as "pro-c" "anti-c", ect. |
| Daddaughter | A dad/daughter incest ship. |
| Dadson | A dad/son incest ship. |
| Darkship | A ship that has dark/taboo themes, often depicting incest, rape, abuse, ect. |
| Darkshipper | Someone who enjoys darkships. |
| DDDNE / Dead Dove | A warning denoting that the dark content tagged will appear in the fanwork with this tag. This term is a refence to an episode of Arrested Development. |
| DNI | Do Not Interact; usually a list of people a user doesn't want to interact with their account and/or a specific post. |
| Don't Like, Don't Read | A warning similar to DDDNE, usually meaning that the author won't validate critique from a reader who read just to hate on the work. |
| Dubcon | Dubiously consensual sex in a ship work. |
| Emoji Combos | Combinations of emojis that signify certain things, such as🌈🍖 signifying one is proship. Started by Rainbow Meaties but now popular on TikTok. |
| F/O | Fictional other; a term selfshippers and fictos use to refer to their fictional significant others. |
| Fancop | Someone who polices fan content. An older term for antishipper. |
| Ficto- | A prefix meaning attraction to fictional characters, or a standalone catchall term for fictosexuals and fictoromantics. |
| Fictoromantic | One who is romantically attracted to fictional characters. |
| Fictosexual | One who is sexually attracter to fictional characters. |
| Grape / 🍇 | A censored term for rape, often used on TikTok. |
| Kink | Unconventional sexual behavior between consenting peoples. |
| Koda | A young or young-looking character of any gender, usually a child or toddler, though teenagers may fall into this catagory. |
| Kodacon | One who is attracted to kodas. |
| Loli | A young or young-looking female character, usually a child or toddler, though teenagers may fall into this catagory. |
| Lolicon | One who is attracted to lolis. |
| MAP/NOMAP | An internet community term coined by pedophiles mening "Minor Attracted Person". |
| Momdaughter | A mom/daughter incest ship. |
| Momson | A mom/son incest ship. |
| Necrophilia | A paraphilia; a real life (non fictional) sexual attraction to dead bodies. |
| Neutral / Neutral shipper | Someone who is neutral on the pro/antiship debate; someone who is indifferent to harassment over fiction. |
| Noncon | Non consensual sex in a ship work. |
| Paraphile | Someone with a paraphilia. |
| Paraphilia | Atypical sexual urges or interests, often but not always harmful if acted on. |
| Pedophilia | A paraphilia; a real life (non fictional) sexual attraction to minors. |
| Poppytwt / Poppyblr / 💐blr / 💐twt | A community of RPF shippers in the Dream SMP fandom that often, but not always, involves shipping real life minors. |
| Pro-c | See "Contact Stance". |
| Pro Para | An adjective meaning one is "pro" (or in support of) paraphiles. |
| Pro Kink | An adjective meaning one is "pro" (or in support of) expression of kink. |
| Problematic | A term that is typically used by antis as a catchall for dark/taboo content. |
| Profic / Profiction | The belief that fiction doesn't effect reality on a 1:1 scale. |
| Proship / Proshipping | An adjective meaning one is "pro" (or in support of) ships/shipping, and don't support harassment over fiction. |
| Proshipper | A noun, meaning one who is proship. This is a newer term, with debate over weather or not it is valid to use, since it portrays an incorrect definition of proship. |
| Proshit / Proshitter | An anti term used as sn insult towards people who are proship. |
| Radqueer | "Radical queer", usually meaning pro trans-race, trans-age, ect. |
| Rainbow Meaties | Commonly just grouped in with proship, the "rainbow meaties" ideology originated on Hannibal Twitter with the emoji combo 🌈🍖. |
| RPF | Real Person Fiction; stories involving fictional versions of real life people, such as actors, streamers, athletes, ect. |
| S/I | Self insert, usually a selfshippers character they use to ship with cannon characters. |
| Safeship | A selfship tag made by antis. |
| Selfship | Shipping one's self or OC with a cannon character; coined by the proship community. |
| Ship | A (usually romantic) pairing between two characters. |
| Shipcest | An incest ship. |
| Shota | A young or young-looking male character, usually a child or toddler, though teenagers may fall into this catagory. |
| Shotacon | One who is attracted to shotas. |
| Sibcon | A sibling/sibling ship, or a character attracted to their sibling. |
| Siscon | A sister/sibling ship, or a character attracted to their sister. |
| Thought Crime | The idea that something one thinks but doesn't act on should be punishable. |
| Zoophilia | A paraphilia; a real life (non fictional) sexual attraction to animals. |