Self-Shipping
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| See also: | Self-Insert, Reader-Insert, Wish Fulfillment, Waifu, Fictosexuality, What community is right for you?, Snapewives, Reality shifting |
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- You may be looking for Selfshipping, a shipname for the Yu-Gi-Oh! ship Hao the Supreme King/Yuuki Judai.[1][2]
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Self-shipping or selfshipping is to ship oneself with a canon character. Self-shippers do not all identify as fictoromantic/fictosexual, but many do.
There is an active self-shipping community on Tumblr, including blogs like fuck-yeah-selfships[dead link].
Terminology
In Japanese fandom, the term "夢女子" (yumejoshi, "dreaming girl") is used by female self-shippers. A Reddit community for yumejoshi discussion exists at r/yumejoshi.
F/O or fictional other for the character you ship yourself with.
Common Self-Shipping Activities
Self-shippers may draw fanart of themselves with their "F/O" (fictional other) or commission others to do so. Some may write fanfiction with their F/O and a self-insert, and others may create moodboards. This is a only a sampling of how self-shippers may express their ship, as there is a huge range of expressing one's self-ship, much like there is for canon x canon ships.
Common types of posts in the self-ship community include:
- Probably the most common type: the writing of "imagines" to share with other self-shippers. Imagines are text posts prompting people to imagine their self-ship OTP but with generalized terms, sometimes avoiding use of pronouns, and can range in a spectrum of broadly relatable to specific target audiences or meant for very niche audiences.
- Ask games that prompt people to share art, imagines, headcanons or similar of the self (or self-insert) and F/O, or storylines for one's specific self-shipping scenario.
- Posts saying "show me a picture of your F/O and I will relate them to __ based on how they look or what I think they're like." These can be songs, foods, date ideas, tarot cards, or anything else the OP may be interested in.
Discourse and the Selflovingly Community
At some point on Tumblr, discourse started on what was and wasn't acceptable in the world of self-shipping. Some common complaints were about adults with minor F/Os or other age gaps (such as an older teenager and younger teenager). Another issue was people with sexist or otherwise bigoted F/Os.[3]
All of this led to the creation of the Selflovingly community.[4] The Selflovingly community created rules against cishets posting in the tag, F/Os from canons with "racist and antisemitic roots," age gap relationships, among other things. The community was criticized for being controlling and hostile by self-shippers.[5] However, others defended the Selflovingly community, saying they "do not agree with what the self ship community is and has become."[6]
External links
References
- ^ Selfshipping group on deviantART
- ^ PrinceHaou (May 22, 2010). "GX Shipping List". DeviantArt. Retrieved June 27, 2019.
- ^ aiiizawa. "Frequently Asked Questions: • None of this applies if your f/o is a racist, pedophile, fascist, abuser, w/e. Find a new f/o because nobody wants to hear about your ~*~nonproblematic~*~ au. Get better..." Tumblr.
- ^ aiiizawa. "Introducing a whole new self insert community + tag!!". Tumblr.
- ^ selffshipping. "a cautionary post for the selflovingly thing". Tumblr. Archived from the original on 2020-09-09.
- ^ Tumblr post by kazuoyashiki[dead link]