[ SECRET POST #4431 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4431 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

See, I just find the entire concept of imagining myself as one of the characters in a ship to be weird. I like the ship because I like the characters in the ship and think they have good chemistry together, I have zero desire to be personally involved in it. M/M, M/F, F/F, it's all good if the characters are into each other because that's the part I find hot.

[(Anonymous)]

This. Not to say I don't have my own little fantasies involving celebrity/character crushes, but that's an entirely separate thing. When I'm reading fic about a particular ship, I'm focusing on the characters involved and nothing else.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. I have plenty of my own self-insert fantasies with characters, but when I'm reading fic, it's all about the characters in the fic. I read plenty of fic for characters I'm not sexually attracted to in the slightest because the idea of them being attracted to EACH OTHER is what's hot to me.

[(Anonymous)]

Same, but I also don't like a lot of M/F tropes so I tend to read a lot of M/M and F/F. Not solely, but mostly.

[(Anonymous)]

Same. It's the relationship between the characters that I'm interested in, not using them as a mental meat-suit.

[(Anonymous)]

same, and i honestly find it boggling, i'm into my ships because i love the characters and their relationship, not because i want to imagine myself as one of them?

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't say that I imagine myself as the characters I ship, but there's usually a strong element of seeing aspects of myself in the characters and identifying with them to some extent and getting some kind of vicarious reaction from it.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Yeah, this is how I am too. None of the characters are stand-ins for me, in any gender configuration. In pairings I really love, there are different things I relate to in each one of the characters (so I guess if I'm "in it" at all, it's like different aspects of me shipped with each other, I suppose. Self-love!)

But a big part of the point of fiction is that...these characters are different people. Who are not me. Who do things (andThey're interesting because they're

I love love love writing smutty fic, but I'm not imagining myself as any of the characters. I'm the narrator. I'm the camera person. I'm a voyeuristic demigod who just likes to watch.

[(Anonymous)]

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Whoops, edit fail.

Should have said. "But a big part of the point of fiction is that...these characters are different people. Who are not me. Who do things (and people) I never would personally. They're interesting because they're other people whose lives and thoughts and sometimes desires are so very unlike mine."

[(Anonymous)]

I never imagine myself as the characters, and I don't need to be personally attracted to the characters, but I need to be very attracted to the dynamic between the characters.

When it comes to f/f I'm just not attracted to the dynamic between the characters, even when it's a really good dynamic. F/f's great, but my libido's just not into it.

[(Anonymous)]

So very much this. Why would I be into replacing out one of the characters when it's the two of them together I ship?

[(Anonymous)]

This!

I find it weird when people have to imagine themselves in a scenario. Knew someone who claimed to be bi but fangirled over just 1 male character, was obsessed with talking about breasts, and couldn't stand m/m fic because there was no vaginas involved.