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Selfshipper/yume/ficto/OCxCanon positivity thread

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Title. There are general shipping threads, this can be the general thread for selfshippers to share their love for their ships. If you do not selfship or do not fall under this umbrella and want to proclaim it for some reason, go here instead of posting here.
This thread is for lifting each other up.
Share your ships, gush about your f/o's, talk about lore, share your pictures, show off your OC's, talk about your experiences.
Be as cringe as you want, because to be cringe is to be free, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
etc etc.
Respect sharing boundaries.
No drama, no bashing other yumes, no judgment, no Discourse (TM) or otherwise breaking bulbagarden rules.
 
I'm a little shy about the fact that i selfship, but as of current my primary selfship is with Morty Pokemon. There's a lot i like about him, the fact that he's kinda an insane weirdo but in a polite friendly way is incredibly endearing to me, and his calm personality is really comforting to me, i also admire how hardworking and dedicated he is, plus... vaugely gothic man with longer hair. He also reminds me a lot of my actual romantic partner which is another bonus in my book.

Honorable mentions also go to Wallace Pokemon and Kamal Bora from Smile For Me, who are both also very much fictional boyfriends to me even if they aren't my main one currently. Wallace i ship myself with via heavily projecting onto Steven Stone and Kamal who i have an OC i ship with.
 
Been thinking about this thread a bit lately, lol. Yumeshipping is very new to me, to the point that... I'm not 110% sure it's what I'm doing? But, either way.

I identify with fictional characters a lot. I've had a Uika icon on here since I joined, but it's not just a favorite character thing; I am Uika, on several levels. She behaves like me, suffered through similar things as me, likes the same kinds of things as me... I even look like her in headspace often, lol. And speaking of headspace, it brings me to my point.

One of my alters formed as PAREO. As in, she looks exactly like the Bandori character, behaves a lot like her, and likes a lot of the same things... which, like, sounds familiar, right? At the same time, I've developed a bit of a crush on her, I think? I think she's really cute, and inspiring. But I don't know if it can count as yumeshipping if she's literally in my head??? I have no clue where my fictional crush ends and alter yuri begins, or even if the latter is actually 100% of it. It's confusing @.@

As I stand now, I think I'm dipping my toes in saying I selfship with PAREO (the fictional one)? But I also ship her with canon characters, so it's all jumbled in my brain, lmao. I just think the girl is cute and I want to kiss her about it dammit

Either way, I'm glad this thread exists. I think yume is awesome (so long as there's no drama or infighting), and I 100% support all y'all (✿◠‿◠)
 
Mialentia said:
.. I'm not 110% sure it's what I'm doing?
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Don't worry, there is no one correct way here!

Mialentia said:
But I don't know if it can count as yumeshipping if she's literally in my head
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What you are describing sounds a little bit like soulbonding? I did not engage with this specific part of community much because I don't fall under that particular umbrella, (I'm a ficto), so I don't know much though.
But no matter what you call it, you're 100% valid and very yuriful!
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NumberOneSpinelApologist said:
What you are describing sounds a little bit like soulbonding?
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Hmm, I'd never heard of that term before! I don't know if that's really me though; PAREO the alter (which I'll just call Reo to make things less confusing lol) and PAREO the character still feel like distinct entities to me, with the former just being based off of the latter. From what I understand, soulbonds are explicitly the presence of the character themself in one's head?

I also see my system as being comprised of "parts of one whole", so Reo is also myself in some difficult-to-explain-but-significant ways, which further separates her from her source. Idk, it's confusing and messy, like plurality often is, lmao

Either way, thank you for bringing this to my attention! I learned something new today :>

also I didn't even mention but my other alter Lena also takes on PAREO's appearance in everyday life so I technically have two of her lmao
 
Funny that I found this thread after making an account to sleuth for more info on Meowth. Anyway, speaking as a cringe furry I can say I'm way too into Meowth and I am honestly unsure why. I've been working on lore for my own Pokémon timeline for a bit now and I do want to just insert my own character with the cat but have been struggling on methods to do so without making him too OOC. I've been watching various movies + the anime and taking notes, alongside reading Q&A stuff with Maddie to get a good view of how she thought of Meowth and his character. The most obvious issue is that he's extremely amorous but doesn't show much interest in guys, I considered just sticking with the idea of him being gynesexual (I mean to be fair he did fall for a male Purrloin, and his aversion after could have been chalked up to embarrassment rather than a hard 'no') but I don't wanna have to feminize myself in universe nor genderswap myself. Smaller issues is stuff like loving his dynamic with Jessie and James and not wanting to drag him away from that, but I can find ways to compromise. I really really want to do the character justice in my own world and writings but it's hard to imagine the character being into me despite how much I adore the idea. But trust me I do adore the idea, I think cuddling and smoking cigars with the talking cat is my idea of a paradise. I sit here jotting down food I notice him like, hobbies and interests he seems to have, and I envision a hypothetical reality where I can share those things with him. Love him, he's adorable, I'm no Cassandra but I'd have him if he had me.
 
/looks at my forum title.../
well! i set my forum title to "jeanette voerman yumejoshi" as a bit of a joke but if you were to ask me if i seriously considered myself a jeanette yume... i'd say yes, haha! (//▽//)

jeanette is from the 2004 game vampire: the masquerade - bloodlines (!!! this game is rated 17+ so please, be responsible and exercise caution if you google it !!!), one of my favorite games of all time. i'll admit, i got into the game when i was way too young (before i even knew that i liked women) so i couldn't put a name to what i felt when i saw jeanette for the first time while playing through the main story!
in VTM:B, you make a player character which you assign a backstory and stats to, since its based off a taple top RPG (i've never played the TTRPG myself, i've been trying to get some friends to let me DM for them hehe) so i guess i could also say that i ship my player character with her. i don't remember what my first player character was like, since i must've been around 9 years old, but when i replayed it a few years ago, my player character's name was miriam. i've been wanting to write fanfiction about them but i haven't managed to build up the courage to do it yet...! i do have a little lore sheet for miriam and i could whip something up on how i'd see their relationship going.

aside from that, more recently, i've been (privately) shipping my street fighter 6 world tour self-insert character with juri han ;;
i stream SF6 to friends sometimes (i main juri, too) so whenever i play i always have to try and behave like a normal person because when i like fictional characters this much i sort of stop functioning. my SF6 character doesn't really have any backstory since its pretty just me, haha...!!
 
Meowth's Number One Fan said:
The most obvious issue is that he's extremely amorous but doesn't show much interest in guys, I considered just sticking with the idea of him being gynesexual (I mean to be fair he did fall for a male Purrloin, and his aversion after could have been chalked up to embarrassment rather than a hard 'no') but I don't wanna have to feminize myself in universe nor genderswap myself. Smaller issues is stuff like loving his dynamic with Jessie and James and not wanting to drag him away from that, but I can find ways to compromise.
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Ok first of all a new Meowth fan on the forums, how exciting!!! You are very welcome and good luck with your sleuthing.

As for Meowth’s sexuality, I think he’s widely headcanoned as pansexual due to the broad range of canon crushes he’s had (including the unusually sexy situations he fantasises about Giovanni in, +/- a lot of people love his chemistry with Pikachu). But fair enough if you don’t read it that way based on your interpretation.

Regardless, I think you can solve both the “I’m embarrassed to be attracted to guys” problem and TRio dynamic problem by imagining a slightly future version where he’s a bit more open to himself and where Jessie has achieved her lifetime ambition of getting married (and therefore ruining the dynamic first lol).
 
ii kanji said:
Ok first of all a new Meowth fan on the forums, how exciting!!! You are very welcome and good luck with your sleuthing.

As for Meowth’s sexuality, I think he’s widely headcanoned as pansexual due to the broad range of canon crushes he’s had (including the unusually sexy situations he fantasises about Giovanni in, +/- a lot of people love his chemistry with Pikachu). But fair enough if you don’t read it that way based on your interpretation.

Regardless, I think you can solve both the “I’m embarrassed to be attracted to guys” problem and TRio dynamic problem by imagining a slightly future version where he’s a bit more open to himself and where Jessie has achieved her lifetime ambition of getting married (and therefore ruining the dynamic first lol).
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I noticed you all format these posts differently than my wall of text so I'll try to to do the same starting now.

I think making him female-leaning but still bi works in this instance because I can relate to how someone can be infatuated immediately with one gender but needing more of a "push" to feel the same with the other. I'm mostly familiar with the original kanto series as it's what I grew up with, hence me watching the anime now to get caught up on aspects of Meowth that weren't really explored when I watched long ago. Regarding his dynamic with Jessie and James, in the world lore I wrote up they retired and opened a boutique in Sinnoh (I know Maddie said she thought they would open up a diner if they retired but she also mentioned a salon as a possibility and I think this is close enough to that since the two are fashion nuts. Plus Sinnoh lets Jessie get back to her coordinator side which I've been reading about). Initially I felt taking him away from this boutique future sounded sad, but to be fair we live in the modern day where everyone is just on discord and facetimes are just the norm now so I'm sure even if all three of them got separated they'd still be in a group chat yapping.

I agree though that a future version of Meowth could have a lot of growth to fix this issue which is why the lore I wrote up takes place after Ash's adventures. Funny enough my infatuation with Meowth has caused me to single handedly uproot my ENTIRE lore and world timeline cause it was originally supposed to just be the game lore which was pretty simple, but in order to have Meowth in there I had to have anime elements so now my timeline is like a weird mashup of the games timeline, the anime timeline, and the "I choose you" movie trilogy timeline, all for the sake of me wanting to kiss Meowth.

I have the "The key to being Meowth is to always remember that no matter how rough he's trying to sound he just wants to be loved" Maddie quote pasted on my Meowth character sheet on Obsidian as a reminder. I love that about him though, I relate to that sense of loneliness and desire for belonging. I really like Meowth's Song (ニャースのうた) for that reason specifically. You brought up Giovanni and I interpret Meowth's overwhelming desire to please him as a sort of projection rather than romance. It's why his fantasies have the boss acting so out of character. He doesn't actually like the boss even if he thinks he does, I mean he barely knows anything about him aside from him being the head honcho of a crime syndicate. But I think this mystery adds to it, I don't think Meowth would like the true Giovanni, just a version of him he has in his head where he is effectively everything Meowth longs for. I mean I'm sure this is all pretty obvious and I'm just preaching to the choir but yeah.

The idea of becoming that rock for him is such an embarrassing amount of wish fulfillment on my end but I can't help it, he's a cutie. In fact, I can imagine how I'd win him over right now

Imagine this, it's an average day and Meowth blasts off again and says to himself "I sure wish someone could just hand us dat Pikachu! Den I'd finally be a happy cat!" Before suddenly what do you know I come out of the bushes and present Ash's Pikachu (Who I caught with my own smarts and cunning). "Wow!" He would say. "I'm so grateful right now! Is there anything I can do to repay ya?" And I'd heroically go on one knee and present the 1000 carat diamond that I always keep on hand for such a hypothetical. "Oh will you marry me, Meowth?" I'd ask, wind blowing through my hair, and he'd nod proclaiming "For doing me such a great service I will be more den happy to!" Then we go on a honeymoon and live happily ever after.

Easy as pie (That last part was a joke but the rest of the post is serious lol).
 
recarmdra said:
vampire: the masquerade - bloodlines (!
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I replayed this so many times, it truly is one of the best games of all times. Jeanette (an Theresa too ;)) is a great character. In general the writing in the game was top notch. One of the reasons I got into the world of darkness RPGs and world in general.
I kind of had a minor thing for Beckett and this inspired me to read some of the VtM novels (but i did not enjoy them that much tbh)

Curious if you watched VtM LA by night,.Jeanette makes a cameo appearance there in a later season
recarmdra said:
i've been wanting to write fanfiction about them but i haven't managed to build up the courage to do it
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Rooting for you! This world is really great for writing fanfics because it, well, this is what it was created for, since all Chronicles are kind of vampire fanfics if you squint a little hahah.
I still lament that one V5 campaign that I did not get to finish running because of outside circumstances...
What clan is Miriam? Or maybe a ghoul...?

(Ironically Matthew Mercer plays Beckett in his cameo in VtM LAbN, Spinel's English voice actor... Everything always leads me to Spinel.
/j. I played the game and watched the series way before Spinel existed xD)

Meowth's Number One Fan said:
The key to being Meowth is to always remember that no matter how rough he's trying to sound he just wants to be loved
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I am sure Meowth is very happy to receive such love and detailed research, I applaud your dedication.
Meowth's Number One Fan said:
Then we go on a honeymoon and live happily ever after.
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Invite us to your wedding!!! :D ;) ;) :D
 
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I've had an absolutely terrible month of May and I'm exhausted physically, mentally and emotionally 24/7 so I can't even draw myself as usual to feel better

so instead I've spent what little "headspace freetime" I had daydreaming about being Kujou Sara's* and the Raiden Shogun's* loving (and loved back) housewife. yes, housewife to both of them at the same time. never been greedy in my life but I guess there's a start for everything hehe

it's nice. relaxing. makes me very happy and giggly and blushy... really needed this month

we'll see if that evolves into actual drawings and writing... but something tells me I won't have room for anything else if I bite this particular bullet haha

* both from Genshin Impact, the Japan-themed country of Inazuma to be more specific
 
Freckles said:
I've had an absolutely terrible month of May and I'm exhausted physically, mentally and emotionally 24/7 so I can't even draw myself as usual to feel better

so instead I've spent what little "headspace freetime" I had daydreaming about being Kujou Sara's* and the Raiden Shogun's* loving (and loved back) housewife. yes, housewife to both of them at the same time. never been greedy in my life but I guess there's a start for everything hehe

it's nice. relaxing. makes me very happy and giggly and blushy... really needed this month

we'll see if that evolves into actual drawings and writing... but something tells me I won't have room for anything else if I bite this particular bullet haha

* both from Genshin Impact, the Japan-themed country of Inazuma to be more specific
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Draw and or write all about it! No one else can make your wish fulfillment come alive except you! :ayeaye: Unless you have a bunch of money to fork over for random commissions I suppose, but still.
 
Well... I have an update, lol

I just finished feverishly writing a 4k word OC x Canon fic of a self-insert of me and PAREO. So, needless to say, I've got it bad /silly

They didn't even really do anything remotely romantic either, this was all setup... which means I'll definitely be coming back to this at some point, too...!

Well, no matter what, I'm looking forward to it! This was lots of fun to do.
 
I'd talk about my F/Os, but there's too many of them..

I might just keep it to a handful for simplicity's sake because of that. And in list format. One is from a very VERY obscure webseries and you can tell exactly which one.

  • Adaman
  • Korekiyo Shinguji (Danganronpa v3)
  • Douma (Demon Slayer)
  • Corbeau
  • N
  • Bowser (obviously mario)
  • Kazuichi Souda (Danganronpa 2)
  • Charmeleon (Teenage Pokémon, Machinema webseries from 2012)
 
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