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Obsidian: Between you and your F/O, who is the better cook? Do you often cook together?If you haven’t already answered this one

πŸŽ€πŸ’– with Ocelot again!

We’re actually both pretty good at cooking! Ocelot is surprisingly domestic in that way! He has a taste for good food and doesn’t always trust someone else to cook for him. Well. He trusts me though… Mostly:p

Imagine him in an apron with a kitty face!

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Cinnabar, Morganite & Rutile for as many F/Os you’d like to answer for! -πŸ’™

πŸŽ€πŸ’– here talking about Ocelot again!

Cinnabar: What kinds of things does your F/O do when alone?

When he’s alone? Hmmm…. He does a lot of reading. And he talks to himself. Plays with his weapons. He writes sometimes; poetry and memoirs.

Morganite: What’s something your F/O is very proud of?

His looks and his aesthetic! He’s a theatre kid at heart and loves to make an impression!

Rutile: What’s something you and your F/O spend a lot of time doing together?

Hmmm… Fun things or less fun things? We do a lot of like, ops and training of course. Fun stuff… Drinking and gambling. He likes to tell stories. And you know… A little bit of flirty stuff :3c

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Goshenite for the ask game? :)

Goshenite: Is your F/O athletic? If so, what kind of sports/activities do they do?

Ocelot has given me (πŸŽ€πŸ’–) permission to talk about him, so that’s what I’m gonna do!

Since he’s a soldier and a spy, of course the major is way very athletic! He doesn’t do any sports really– unless you consider juggling a sport? ^^ but mostly he does a lot of physical training. Weight lifting, running, obstacle courses, martial arts, etc…

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You go to sit on your F/O’s lap, but they decide they want to sit on your lap instead.

The two of you end up playfully (or not so playfully) wrestling for dominance, to see who gets to sit on who’s lap.

Catching your F/O as they melodramatically throw themselves into your arms, pretending to expire.

Throwing yourself into your F/O’s arms and making them catch you as you melodramatically pretend to expire.

One of my former friends used to support me, comfort me when I was down over people harassing me for my F/O, but when they turned their back on me they said I was problematic for loving my F/O, and “forcing them” to do these things for me… Like, manipulating them into comforting and indulging me. I still fear that this is actually what I did without realizing it.

Anon, the advice I give you depends strongly on an important factor.

Are your F/Os system members, soulbonds, or other real, people with agency of their own that you share your internal experience with in some way?

or are they just fictional characters that you write about and enjoy and play pretend with?

Because if they’re just fictional characters then it is impossible to manipulate them in any meaningful way. It’s like saying you’re manipulating a doll or a teddy bear. It’s ridiculous. There’s no need for you to feel guilty about any of it, because there is no real person for you to harm. Full stop. You’re fine.

If they’re system members, or other internal people with agency then it could be possible that you have been manipulative, or that your actions have caused harm.

Here’s what you should do if your F/O is a real internal person with agency that you worry you have been manipulating.

The same thing you’d do with any other partner you worried that you had caused harm to.

Talk to them about your feelings.

Communicate with them.

Ask them what they want, and if they feel harmed.

And if they do feel harmed, apologize, and ask them how you would like to proceed in the future.

a bit ago you got a (different) anon that was asking about the intersection between plurality and f/os, and you mentioned that the strong connection self-shipping can bring can form/summon (depending on your experience i guess) system members. we had this happen to us recently and honestly i don’t even know if there’s a point to this message i just like… got so excited seeing someone talk about this and say “yeah this is a thing that can happen.”it’s totally new territory for me (we have some fictives sure but he feels like… a different type of fictive i have no idea how to explain it) and i’ve never seen anyone talk about it, maybe because there isn’t a lot of intersection between the two communities, i dunno i’m not super connected so i could be wrong or just not looking in the right spaces but.we’ve basically been navigating blind which has been working but that doesn’t make the experience any less “lonely” i guess when you’ve never heard of it happening before yanno. and i’m also struggling with a weird amount of guilt around itβ€” a lot of overwhelming feelings both positive and negative. i won’t go into detail because i don’t want to feelingsdump in your guys’ ask box lol, but… yeah.sorry i don’t even know what i was trying to convey here, feel free to ignore this, just seeing that ask made me do the metal gear solid “!” thing LOL.

Anon, we are so glad to meet you, an so glad our posts resonated with you!

This part in your message stood out to me

we have some fictives sure but he feels like… a different type of fictive i have no idea how to explain it)

I think you should check out some posts over at our (very out of date) blog @soulbonder and see if some of the experiences talked about over there resonate with you.

Please feel free to put anything you like in our inbox if you want to talk more about your experiences.