[ SECRET POST #5666 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5666 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[kallanda_lee]

That sucks, nonny - but also, I think many people have ships that are not "healthy".

[(Anonymous)]

Huh. Personally, none of my ships are self-insert. I don't really think that's unusual; I think a lot of people have non-SI ships.

If you can't enjoy your ship anymore because you just can't, then I'm sorry, OP, that's too bad. OTOH, you know it's okay to enjoy it anyway, right? Just making sure. Personally, my favorite OTPs are ones that are just a huge pile of red flags sewn together into something that is improbably loving and functional. And that's totally okay. And it's also fine to just like romantic/sexual toxicity in your ships, too. You probably know that. But it just seems like if you clicked with the ship before, then maybe you can click with it again, if you just work through your feelings about it a little bit. *shrug*

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, lovely secret maker, thanks for this! The secret looks great! :D

Thanks everyone for the kind words btw, and for anyone who might be wondering, I am over the initial shock by now and back to searching for healthy ways in which it could work in canon (while simultaneously avoiding interpretations that remind me of parents ew). Yay!

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry you lost your beloved OTP to your silly brain, OP! I hope you find another soon.

[(Anonymous)]

Why did you need to relate to one of the characters?

[(Anonymous)]

I've honestly never shipped anything in a self-insert way. All my ships are because I can see elements of myself in both of them, but they're also very both very different people from me too, and for most I personally would not want to be in a relationship with either of them. They're right for each other, not me.

If it was a live-action film, I'd be the director or the camera person, not either of the actors.

I'm also not invested at all in whether the relationship is healthy. I like enemies-to-lovers, I like codependent ships, I like forbidden love, all of that.

But yeah, if I noticed a ship had a dynamic too much like my parents, I'd probably nope out too. Not that my parents' relationship is any worse than average, really, but who wants to think about their parents when reading sexy fic?

[(Anonymous)]

Same. I've always found the idea of self-inserting in a ship to be weird and a little creepy, personally, for exactly the reasons you said. I like ships because I like those two characters together, not because I have any interest in dating either of them. In fact, I usually DON'T want to date either of them.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure why it would need to be like self-insert for you to love it. Do you usually only like self-insert? For me generally, I just need to connect with a character in some way to care about them, not necessarily relate to them or identify with them, just have more than a surface emotional response to them.

[(Anonymous)]

OP here, no, but for most of my favorite ships I tend to sympathize with one of the characters and be obsessed with the other. It's just a pattern that I happened to notice.