#proficselfship

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You never have to be ashamed of your F/O.

Yes, even if they're horrific. Even if they're morally bankrupt and genuinely deplorable and evil.

Yes, even if they're from media people consider "slop".

Yes, even if they're from media people consider "cringe".

Yes, even if they're very much unconventionally attractive.

Yes, even if they're obscure, niche, sourced from a meme, etc.

Yes, even if they're from "gooner" media.

You are always welcome in the community.

Regardless of where your F/O is sourced, who they are, and what their presence in their story (or lack thereof) is like. Your feelings, your choices, they are your own- your relationship with your F/O is special and no one can break the bond you have with them.

Shed your fear, your anxiety, your shame: be proud of loving your F/O, they'd want you to be.

[pom-pom-cherry]

🍒 Imagine your f/o coming to see you and seeing the merch you have of them- 🍓 Imagine them first seeing you wearing a shirt/hoodie with them on it- 🍒 Imagine them finding the drawings you’ve made of them-

🍓 Imagie them quietly reading the fanfics you’ve saved and written about them-

🍒 Are you imagining? Now imagine finding their collection of pictures of you, figures they’ve had commissioned, drawings they’ve tried to keep in a drawer somewhere, and don’t even get them started on the fanfics they totally weren’t writing-

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To all the selfshippers who worry about if they're good enough for their F/O...

You are. You always have been. It doesn't matter if you're not as strong, as smart, as creative, as 'useful'. It doesn't matter even if your F/O usually hates people like you. In case anyone hasn't told you, you're special and your F/O loves you!

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For artists who are worried about drawing their F/Os: it's okay to draw them how you please.

It's okay to draw them with darker skin, if you want. It's okay to draw them fat, if you want. It's okay to change their gender presentation or their religion, if you want. It's okay to fluff up fur or hair more than in canon, it's okay to change their clothes and accessories, it's okay to draw them with every and any headcanon you want for them.

On the same side, it's okay to want to be as canon-accurate as you can as well!

They're your F/O, and you understand your F/O more than anything. How you draw your F/O is who your F/O is.

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Much, much love to the sex-repulsed selfshippers among us! But I want to give a special shout out to the romance-repulsed.

Selfshipping is seen as such a romance-heavy thing, it can be difficult to decouple it with romance as a whole- but even though it's tough to navigate these spaces, you deserve to be here just as much as any romance-favorable selfshipper.

Your selfship, even if it's a purely sexual one, a queerplatonic one, or anything out of the traditional sphere of romance, is still as valid of a selfship as any other.

Again, you deserve to be here. You deserve to express how you feel for your F/O, and you deserve to be able to find more posts and content inclusive of you.

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"Why even draw my F/O when I won't be as good as (double)?"

"There's better authors out there so why even bother wasting so much time writing for my F/O?"

"My edits of my F/O won't ever be as good as (other person)."

"I can't ever prove how much I love my F/O because my art/writing/editing isn't as good as others.."

Don't make me tap the sign:

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Reblog with a picture of your F/O, what thing(s) you like the most about them, and your favorite taste sensation (sweet, spicy, salty, sour, etc) to be assigned a random food that I think fits them!

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Selfshippers with feral F/Os, I love you.

Selfshippers who are therians and your theriotypes are feral animals, I love you.

Your love isn't lesser because you can't entirely relate to human-centric imagines, fantasies, or stereotypes. The feelings you have for your F/O are just as beautiful as mine or anyone else's.