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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Self-shipping or selfshipping is to ship oneself with a canon character. Selfshippers may draw themselves with their "F/O" (fictional other) or commission others to do so. They may also write fanfiction with their F/O and a self-insert. Selfshippers do not all identify as fictoromantic/fictosexual but many do.
There is an active self-shipping community on Tumblr, such as the blog fuck-yeah-selfships.
In Japanese fandom, the term "夢女子" (yumejoshi, "dreaming girl") is used by female self-shippers. There is a community on Reddit relating to this called r/yumejoshi.
Selfshipping is also used in Yu-Gi-Oh! fandom to mean the ship of Hao the Supreme King/Yuuki Judai.[1][2]
Discourse and Selflovingly Community
At some point on tumblr, discourse started on what was and wasn't acceptable in the world of selfshipping. Some common complaints were 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 banned cishets posting in the tag, F/Os from racist canons, age gap relationships and other things. The community was criticized for being controlling and hostile by selfshippers.[5] However, others defended the Selflovingly community, saying they "do not agree with what the self ship community is and has become."[1][Dead link]
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.