[ SECRET POST #6501 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6501 ⌋

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[fscom]

05. https://i.imgur.com/Fswp9ON.png

[neoyi]

Me, too.

Selfshipping is great and I hope people are enjoying themselves when writing/drawing/whatevering with that. But not me. I can't imagine myself with any fictional character. When I was younger, it was a lack of self-confidence and the whole "nobody could love me like that" rigamarole that came with being an insecure youth. Nowadays? Eh, just doesn't appeal to me. I'm more fond of shipping fictional characters with each other.

[(Anonymous)]

I could tolerate self ship but only if it's a comedy. Like what is this amazing overpowered main character doing with me, the absolute rando? Which mummy's curse forced us to be unable to be apart? What do you mean we don't actually share any hobbies and they expect me to give up video games for them? Fuck that we're breaking up

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yes, same. I was into writing fic long before I had internet fandom, so you'd think I would have been writing self-inserts left right and centre. But no, never. I'm not saying my writing was any better - I had plenty of Canon Sues - but definitely no self-inserts.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm often self-shipping for the purpose of daydreaming to help me fall asleep (I have my comfort scenarios that I will cringe at the next day, especially during really shit/traumatic times), but it is always peppered constantly with the low self-esteem "as if they'd want to be with you" thing. I could never actually put any of it on paper, it lives purely in my head and I still balk at myself for it.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh no, I love those things as daydreams to fall asleep stuff. Would I commit them to type and post them on the internet? Oh, hell no.

[(Anonymous)]

I've honestly never understood the concept of self-shipping because the idea of breaking the IC/OOC boundary in fiction just makes me incredibly uncomfortable. Like, the whole reason I enjoy fiction is that it's NOT real and can't/won't ever be real and so you can write about all sorts of things that couldn't be possible or would be terrible if they actually happened in real life. The moment you start breaking that barrier is just a big "abort abort" to me.

[fleurviolette]

Yeah I don’t understand the appeal, since they’re a fictional character and not real. How can someone like someone who does not exist? It doesn’t make any sense.

Plus, breaking the fourth wall is a bit much. I’m here to escape from reality, not bring it with me.

Anyway I usually don’t read self insert fics or oc/canon ship fics.

[(Anonymous)]

Same. I don’t want to romance these characters myself, and for some reason I recoil pretty violently even from those "imagine" posts you see on social media sometimes. I would not fucking say that, and so on and so forth.

I can only read reader x fics for Baldur's Gate 3, and that's only because I can pretend the "you" is not directed at me; it’s the in-game narrator addressing the player character, who is not me.

[(Anonymous)]

For me, I prefer the original character/self-insert to not be IRL me.

When I was younger, I created OCs to be the idealized version of myself (AKA a Mary Sue).

Perhaps that affected me, because as a writer, my OCs/self-insert characters are their own characters. Most tend to have a certain level of identity that comes from me and my personal experiences, but I generally see these OCs as their own beings, characters I created and know a lot about but they aren't me. In my mind, these characters aren't IRL me interacting with MC. They're also made up characters with their own lives that aren't like mine.

When I read fics with self-inserts ("Y/N" for example), I literally cannot put myself in that situation. I imagine an actor I like in the the "Y/N" role. Sometimes I give them a name in my head or I apply (phonetically) "Why-In" as the name of the self-insert/OC.

Like, the fic isn't real so I can't imagine myself in this fictional world. I can imagine a made up character in that world though.

[(Anonymous)]

The only Character/Reader I can handle is the stuff I've written myself (which I've only done three times, and two of those times the self-insert was an OC with the serial numbers filed off and not "literally me" by name, features, personal history, etc.). I can't usually imagine myself doing or saying the things the "Y/N" character is described as doing and so the whole idea just falls really flat. In effect, the author has written "me" out of character, and really, how could they be expected to get it right (other than by random chance)?