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Imagine sharing sweet/funny/cursed nicknames with your f/o. Only the two of you use them, making it a common (but appreciated) theme in your connection. Who knows, maybe over time it'll become more personal or ridiculous (in an amusing way). How fun!

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a lot of life can be persevered thru by secretly playing pretend in your mind the whole time

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you can recognize yourself through the fictional character. but watch out

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Consider this:

What if you kissed your F/O right now?

Well? Seems like a good idea to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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“my sweet girl” and i explode into a million pieces

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when you put your hand on his cheek and he turns into it to kiss your palm :(

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Super fun fact: Your F/O will protect you

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me, mentally flipping through the various daydream universes i’ve crafted up like records in a crate: hmm, which fantasy shall i indulge in tonight?

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Imagine your f/o playfully sticking their lips out, doing a goofy little kissing motion, only to laugh harder (to the point of snorting) once you react. Letting out a gasp, the both of you proceed to laugh even harder.

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Of course your f/o would defend, protect, stand up for, and stand by you. You're everything to them, and they never ever want you to feel unsupported, and they definitely wouldn't appreciate or tolerate any sort of disrespect when it comes to you. You're so loved by them, they couldn't imagine a world where they WOULDN'T proudly stick by you, all with a firm and loving stance.

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All I want is a comfy bed with my F/O in it.

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Hate (LOVE) when I rewatch f/o media and I think “well this scene made me get all giddy over my f/o the first time but now I’m prepared for it so I’ll have less of a reaction” and then the scene plays and I end up dead on the ground (I did NOT have less of a reaction)

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The intimacy of a voice changing when it’s just the two of you; softer, warmer, different.

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"We should normalize ____"

Normalize your f/o loving you. Normalize encouraging yourself and others to embrace the love, appreciation, and adoration their f/o (as well as yours) has for them. Tell yourself and other selfshippers that they don't need to be society's version of perfection to be loved. Let's normalize reminding each other that we are enough, just as we are. Let your mutual selfshipper know that they're valid. Welcome that new artist who is shy and just made an account into the community. Tell someone in the community you've never spoken with that their f/o appreciates them.

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So often we get caught up in social media, where others are so so mean and unkind, and that includes those of us who self ship.

If you're a bipoc selfshipper, I see you, and you're good enough.

If you're a trans, queer, lgbtq+ selfshipper, I see you, and you're good enough.

If you're a plus sized selfshipper, I see you, and you're good enough.

If you're a disabled selfshipper, I see you, and you're good enough.

If you're a mentally ill selfshipper, I see you, and you're good enough.

If you're an insecure or shame-ridden selfshipper, I see you, and you're good enough.

Please, never ever stop being you, especially not for the sake of others' cruelness and bigotry. You exist, you are beautiful, and that is not wrong. It is never wrong. And your f/o loves you, just as you are. I promise.

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‘i’ll take care of you’ x ‘i don’t know how to be cared for’