Call us Tuxedokit !

it/that thing/they | 24 | ADHD-PI | white | BPD | Autistic | system, apparently || interacts from @tuxedokit || pfp + banner by my partner @luci-is-currently-loving-bees

[tuxedokit-sys-selfships]

selfships list

(putting dots cause i cant be assed to have this show up in the main tags) (also this is my temp pinned unil i actually make this nice)

shipname - character × self insert

delluna - dell.a duc.k (duc.ktales) × luna

zoline - zo.ro (o.ne pie.ce) × seline

zoline has grown into a larger multiship verse i need a name for straw hat seline au

solar eclipse - luna (cattails) × sunny

floofbin - floo.fty fizzl.ebean (bu.gsnax) × rybin sillyspark

rock eaters | ambigail - abigail (stardew) × amber

birds of a feather | emevali - rev.ali (bot.w) × emeryst

riding shotgun | picarpet - pic.o (ng) × carpet

rugs to riches | togarpet - by.akuya tog.ami × carpet

rabbit in a hat | jattrix - j.ax (ta.dc) × hattrix

and a couple without names

cassie (cru.sh cru.sh) × marshmallow

mango/krampy/talon

ragatha × hattrix

hellen × ??? (havent made s/i yet)

[werewolf-transgenderism]

basically my favorite thing to do is imagine The Character in some sort of situation of terrible emotional turmoil. it’s like enrichment for me

[termagax]

its kind of crazy that all it took for self shipping to become a recognizable trend in certain spaces was using a japanese word for it instead

[solitaireships]

So can we talk about the orientalism that plagues fandom and is present in the selfship community. Yume as a term blew up because of it, it's why white people give their self inserts Asian names and then get mad when someone tells them that's cultural appropriation. Asian terms (and especially Japanese ones) are seen as a cool aesthetic more so than something from an irl culture

[honeyandtheirlittleguys]

shoutout to disabled selfshippers!

ᯓ★ self shippers with invisible disabilities

ᯓ★ self shippers who can’t indulge with their f/o as much as they want because their health gets in the way

ᯓ★ self shippers who suffer yet can’t get help or a proper diagnosis because the healthcare system sucks

ᯓ★ self shippers who have a hard time being active in the community for various reasons (low energy/fatigue, burnout, pain flareups, etc.) despite wanting to

you are seen. you are loved. i’m glad you’re here, no matter how frequent or infrequent you pop in. thank you for being part of our community.

your f/os love you so much, and i know they’re beyond happy to support you through anything and everything.

you won’t walk this exhausting path alone. they won’t let that happen.

thank you @/silcosbunny for the reminder that disability pride month is upon us!!

[honeyandtheirlittleguys]

shoutout to disabled selfshippers!

ᯓ★ self shippers with invisible disabilities

ᯓ★ self shippers who can’t indulge with their f/o as much as they want because their health gets in the way

ᯓ★ self shippers who suffer yet can’t get help or a proper diagnosis because the healthcare system sucks

ᯓ★ self shippers who have a hard time being active in the community for various reasons (low energy/fatigue, burnout, pain flareups, etc.) despite wanting to

you are seen. you are loved. i’m glad you’re here, no matter how frequent or infrequent you pop in. thank you for being part of our community.

your f/os love you so much, and i know they’re beyond happy to support you through anything and everything.

you won’t walk this exhausting path alone. they won’t let that happen.

thank you @/silcosbunny for the reminder that disability pride month is upon us!!

[squeegsnail]

unfortunately shes bad as hell

[girlypopinspos]

Ships with this vibe.

[lakemojave]

You know that whatever character did those problematic things isn't like. Real, right?

[lakemojave]

You are aware that a fictional character is just a rhetorical construct designed to fulfill a narrative/thematic purpose right? That their actions are written by an author who wants to use them to explore complex ideas and moral gray areas within the safe confines of fiction right? That they aren't a real person who has killed real people right?

[mleelunsford]

I don't need to explain myself

[pouletpourri]

well she had it coming

[tuxedokit-sys-selfships]

oh and yknow what i might as well admit it here . i may be crushing on law also.

[monsterquill]

“some people don’t deserve redemption” redemption isn’t something that’s deserved, it’s something someone does. it’s making the choice to change the way you live your life, to be better, to do good things instead of bad things and try to make up for the bad things. and everyone can and should do that, at any time, no matter what they’ve done. we can’t change the past, but we can choose what kind of person to be now and in the future. we have the responsibility to do so. it is so completely not about “deserving.”

[dingdongyouarewrong]

[monsterquill]

“some people don’t deserve redemption” redemption isn’t something that’s deserved, it’s something someone does. it’s making the choice to change the way you live your life, to be better, to do good things instead of bad things and try to make up for the bad things. and everyone can and should do that, at any time, no matter what they’ve done. we can’t change the past, but we can choose what kind of person to be now and in the future. we have the responsibility to do so. it is so completely not about “deserving.”

[dingdongyouarewrong]

[tuxedokit-sys-selfships]

i need to actually draw/write out more development for my straw hat seline thing. i have a lot of the framework in my head but that is where like 98% of their lore remains. seline has a whole pre timeskip arc. still working on post timeskip cause im only in dressrosa now and im still workshopping where my little guy would pop up

[limbel]

have you seen these pirates (alt version after the cut)

[395nm]

let’s go strip mining. i found an ore vein! take off your shirt!

[mousidy]

jax died before she could come out, and she died before she could become a better person and make any kind of amends with the people she hurt. I don't think the story was written that way by accident

[mousidy]

she's horribly repressed and comes from horrible circumstances including homelessness. she also pushed away every hand extended to her and every chance she could have taken to get better. there were a million better decisions she could have made and she did not make them, and she caused an incredible amount of harm along the way. and still the story wants us to believe her worthy of being understood and loved

[mousidy]

to come out would be to embody herself, to view herself as a real person, to start to leave the haze of dissociation that allows her to think of herself and everyone else as cartoon archetypes in a false world where nothing matters

she's desperate to stay in this world that she sees as false, where she's a funny cartoon character and she can still brush off the pain she causes as silly cartoon antics

it's exactly this dissociation that allows her not to take her own pain or the pain of others seriously. it was what ultimately led to her death. a jax that cannot come out is also a jax that cannot make amends

[mousidy]

something I love about a tragic story, where a character fails to complete the arc that might have satisfied us as the audience, is that it asks us what led to the tragedy

the despair it leaves us with, the satisfaction it denies us, leaves us to yearn for things to have turned out differently. it leaves us thinking about what could have been done, what decisions could have been made, what different circumstances could have prevented the tragedy? dissatisfaction drives us to act

you're not supposed to be satisfied when she dies

[mousidy]

I love, by the way, the matter-of-fact cut from her walking away to her already being gone. like many tragedies we experience in our lives, the news comes to us unceremoniously, undramatically, flatly. it arrives well after the moment where we could have been there. in one quiet moment the world shifts underneath our feet. at first it feels like nothing at all until the information percolates through us, manifesting first as a dull ache that feels inadequately small and insignificant

we don't get to ask "what could I have done if I were there," we can only ask "what could I have done before it got this bad?"