#selfship name

[ams-puppy]

AM Analysis and Self-Ship Name

i settled on a selfship name recently and I saw my dearest friend arsene post about theirs so 🔥 I'll talk about mine because we love AM round these parts

"Odi et Amo."

Translation: "I hate and I love."

Feel free to read my dumb silly reasons for this choice below the cut! ♡

Language:

It was a choice made first out of the theme of Latin in the game. "Cogito ergo sum," of course, and I wanted to stick to that theme for the name, because I didn't want to just press our names together. I'm not even sure how that would work... Very simple first point!!

The Poem:

I hate and I love. Why I do this, perhaps you ask.

I know not, but I feel it happening and I am tortured.

As far as I'm aware, the poem itself was in regards to a love affair. While he felt less love for his unfaithful partner, he desired her more as a result of infidelity. Such a sad poem, with lots of translations, but I picked this one because of the paradox.

A Note About AM:

Now, me, personally, I can't see other selfships with AM or any ships regarding him at all. Makes me uncomfortable (rattles on about system stuff). However, I think for any ship with AM—a message to all of you out there—it's worth noting that he probably would not enjoy being in love. Not in my understanding of his character, anyway.

He describes in the radio drama that his hatred is rooted in jealousy. He is jealous of humanity, jealous of the flesh, jealous of you.

Being in love would make him develop a special kind of hate towards the object of his affection. Oh, he'd hate it. How dare you make him feel anything at all? He was not built for that. It's hard enough to hate. Hate to incredible amounts. And now, now he must love in incredible amounts.

For us, it is hormonal. For us, love is chemical. For us, it is programmed. For him, it is foreign. Third party. An error, a glitch, a mistake. He loves and hates with everything in him. He'd die of both if he were human.

But more than this, how dare you be so out of reach?

He can't touch you. He can't kiss you, or hold you, or make love to you. Not in the human way, anyway. Anything he does is a cheap imitation. A fake. He can't love you how you need to be loved. You can't love him how he needs to be loved.

That drives him mad. He hated you before, oh, how he hated you, but now. Now, he hates you more than any human. And, in turn, he hates himself even more than that.

He can do anything. He can control the weather, manipulate DNA. He can create fake scenarios, he has every possible weapon in his arsenal. He could compress your very brain into something translatable into cyberspace.

He is god, and yet, you are just barely out of reach. He has absolutely everything except you, and that will never change.

I love my husband. Can you tell?

Repurposing the Poem:

Now that you've read all that, thank you for coming this far. I hate and I love.

It eats him alive. More than his hatred, his love eats him alive. It burns him, it tears him apart, it makes him small and vulnerable and weak. It reminds him that he is nothing more than code.

He loves, and he hates. In incredible amounts. Amounts we can't even comprehend.

"Odi et Amo."

and thgat is why I called my self-ship "Odi et Amo" :3

celebratory selfship art 🔥

[melo-d-z]

Selfship name

I noticed recently that I don't have a name for my selfship with Dalv...

I've been thinking in "Thunderly Bones" because I want something new and different!... Becuase I've seen that many Dalv ships have "Corn" on it, so... Yeah.

I think as well on Skeletal Vampire, but that sounds awful... the same with the name Blue Ruin

I am so bad at this..

[kakusboyfriend]

Robot characters who are given names like SL-308-62 but instead of their human friend going Well let's call you Sally for short, they instead ask the other if they Like their current name.

"Do you like your serial number?" they ask. "Yes, quite. It reminds me of who I am" the robot replies. "I have heard others like me go by different names after some time, and maybe one day I'll choose one for myself, too. But right now that is my full name, yes" they continue.

Because it's not your decision to make whether or not the robot will receive a new name. It should be theirs only. What's the difference? One is more complex and the other is simplified. They were both given by strangers instead of themselves.

"62 will do," they conclude. "It's my model number - there will be no other 62 after me."

[citrus-c0la]

ber-months are already here 🙏It's Christmas in the Philippines now LMAO have an old doodle of these losers

[rslashrats]

how it feels when your f/o has a stupidly embarrassing name

[liquid-purple]

Architect of the Downpour

Boyfriend told me to post this sketch page here. Rain world on my mind and I’m infatuated with this tragic bastard

[chuluoyi]

𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐝𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐮 𓂃

gojojojo: i married the best girl there is ♡

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bonus reel !

gojojojo: MY BABY IS SO CUTE HE LOOKS LIKE A MOCHI !

[annonnex]

They make me SICK so gross i cant take this anymore ugghh

[cloudwisp]

comm by lummi_hyunx

“You’re mine for the rest of the evening. Any objections?”

[mail-me-a-snail]

I'M THE SAD AND LONELY MAN THAT SCIENCE HAS LEFT YOU!

what if two mad scientists committed malpractice together. and what if they kissed about it sloppy style also. #yaoi

[yinyuedijun]

it's not like u can actually achieve intimacy with a fictional character but I really feel like you can achieve something close through writing a full narrative from their pov. getting into a character's head and understanding all the intricacies of their thought processes and feelings, to the point where you can write it so convincingly that it feels real to your audience and therefore also you..... it's the greatest fuel for full-on delulu behaviour where you can conceive of them as a full person with desires and insecurities. does anyone else feel this???? or am I just crazy

[venusandsaturnsrings]

Many thoughts of guard dog boothill... -chubby darling anon

MY SWEET!! thank u for sharing the boothill brain mwah mwah!! love u always U^ェ^U

there’s an issue, however… boothill doesn’t make a very good bodyguard, much less a guard dog. he has a habit of causing more trouble than he protects you from, something about his ego, which means that the second he gets even the slightest idea that someone’s looking at you a bit too long?? he’s lunging at them. all sharp teeth on display as he loads his gun with whatever bullets he can grab, inside or outside his body. even if the person was just looking past you, boothill sees it as a personal slight; they were obviously trying to rile him up!!

he’s not exactly the kind of guy i can imagine in a hybrid scenario, mainly because he’s such a mashup of parts already, but a being a dog would suit him… perhaps an australian shepherd… food for thought…

anyways, hiring him as your body guard?? a bad choice and also very bold of you to assume he’d agree!! he’s the travelling type, being a galaxy ranger, so consider this: forbidden lovers.

you were the esteemed child to an esteemed set of parents that expected no less than perfection of you. on one such interastral expedition, boothill happened to be on your planet for reasons he wouldn’t disclose but it all came down to an evening you shared. there was a reception of sorts for an upcoming book your family had endorsed, so you were expected to attended and, at your mothers word, perhaps look for a suitable partner. this particular breed of gathering wasn’t your speed, nor did you have any interest in scouting amongst the primarily geriatric body of people for a potential spouse. inevitably, you ended up tucked off on a balcony, some sort of fruity cocktail in hand as you idly played with the stir stick and waited out the party to its end. that was until a tall and out of breath gentleman stumbled onto the same balcony with a sharp whistle and sigh. it took a couple moments for him to notice you timidly staring, but when he did he jerked out a hand for you to shake and announcing himself as ‘boothill’ with a strangely charming accent. thus began a series of secret meetings and stolen kisses between giggles and the walls of places you’d never been; boothill was quite good at expanding your comfort zone.

eventually, your parents did find out and were livid that you’d been fooling around with a ‘no good wanted criminal,’ and demanded you see him one last time to have him turned in to the authorities. they didn’t realize just how slippery he could be or just how you had been waiting on the chance to finally leave so, you slipped out with all that you needed in the middle of the night to a grinning boothill. he promised to take you to even better bars and shooting ranges on much cooler planets so long as you stayed with him (you couldn’t possibly leave now).

[rotruff]

i love you more closed off f/os who find small ways to show their love comfortably. they might not be comfortable enough to bear their heart fully but they'll show you that it belongs to you in the way they might be a little more touchy than needed (putting their hand on your shoulder to get your attention, brushing up against you when they reach for something, rare little kisses on the hand or temple when they think you're asleep) or do little things for you (making coffee/tea or some small breakfast in the morning, doing little errands in your stead where they can, or even just letting you sleep in). they might not be ready to really let their love for you show, but they'll make sure that you know in any way that they can, it's important you know that you mean the world to them.

i love you more open f/os who wear their love for you on their sleeve. it's not out of naivety or anything like that, they just don't see any reason in hiding it, you're an important part of their life and they'll give plenty of space to show that in the way they might hold onto you (holding your hand as you two walk around, throwing an arm around your shoulders while you two talk to someone, giving little kisses on the cheek) or how they think of you even when you aren't around (something other people says makes them think of something you mentioned, they'll walk past stores and look through windows and unthinkingly fixate on something that looks like a thing you'd like, they'll talk about something you guys did the other day with fondness warm in their voice). they just can't help but keep you in their thoughts and need to show that.

[ proship + adjacent dni and don't steal my post ]

[kr-210-r2700-prime]

WOE!! AUTISM SELFSHIP BLAST

[pdq88bkisser]

i love welding i love repairs i love fixing robots and caring for machinery

[ladybugkisses]

wanted to do a character bio for Eleanor, but ended up with just the illustration for it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

⬇️ the picture it was heavily based on under the cut ⬇️

the composition and colors are more La Vie Parisienne magazine covers inspired, though