#ficto

[palatteflags]

Wii, Cybercore, and Rayman based Fictosexual moodboard~ ^^ For an anon! Hope you like this!

Want one? Send an ask! -mod Jay

[true-autistic-tales]

oh boy when my fictional man hears about what you did you are all done for

[avenpt]

However you identify, we appreciate you, and you are valid. Remember, the ace and aro umbrellas are wide enough to fit you. Whether you're aegosexual, fictoromantic, grey-ace, demiromantic, or any other number of identities...you are valid.

[seaside-lovers]

me online: i love my F/O soooo much!!! y'all don't even know, i'm so hopelessly in love with them aaa ❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰 they're so cuteeeeee!

how i look typing that all out:

[puss-in-boots-bf]

a lot of the time when i think about my relationship with my f/o it's like. yea of course i'm in love with him he's literally the perfect man blah blah whatever. but i think i've forgotten that my f/o feels the exact same way and i still can't comprehend it. you mean he chose me out of literally anyone on earth to start dating????????? he looked at me and decided he wanted to spend the rest of his life with me???????????????????? he loves me??????????????????????????????? i don't believe it i'm dreaming

[chaos-bunnyships]

Spoiler: You won’t.

[synf3ll]

posic & objectum and fictos & selfshippers are all holding hands and kissing btw. we are so full of LOVE it extends beyond humans

[chillyneon]

I like that the ficto and selfship community has only continued to grow since ye olde days of internet.

I remember that fictosexual wasn't even a major term, so there wasn't much of a way to look for others. Hell I remember getting dogpiled a couple times for using the term because people assumed it was attention seeking. So I couldn't use the term and find any actual results for many years.

We all just kinda stood around thinking we were the only people like this, and maybe there's something severely wrong because no one else feels this way. Hell, even when asking my therapists they thought self shipping sounded like a wonderful thing for me and coping with trauma or stress. So being unable to find others like me was so frustrating because I just wanted to know I wasn't fuckin alone in my passion for fiction.

That was like, 20 years ago, the Internet has exploded since then. And now look, the community has grown so much, selfshipping is more common enough we can actually find content on a tag filled to the brim. We can fucking TALK about self shipping and being ficto and attracted to fictional characters. Hell, just able to say I'm fictosexual feels nicer than it did years back. Is everything perfect for us? No, people can still be douches and say mean things, but we have far more folks doing their best to spread the fun things about being ficto and self shipping.

It makes me smile that I can type in ficto or selfship and be witness to the gorgeous menagerie of people loving their F/Os or folks saying their fav things about self shipping. To see people going feral over their loves and gushing about every detail. Seeing folks finding themselves and exploring their ficto feelings, seeing people create things because they love their F/Os so goddamn much. It just makes me happy to see it. Things aren't perfect, but I'm glad we're all able to find that we're not alone.

You're not alone or weird for loving fictional characters, there's plenty more of us out there and you don't have to stop when you get older. It's not just a phase for many, it's how we are and how we love and you don't have to grow out of it. I'm in my goddamn 30s and the only thing that's changed about my selfshipping is I got even more F/Os to love from the past few decades.

It's just nice to be ficto knowing others are also out their loving and selfshipping with fictional favs. <333333

[babybelprompts]

you and your f/o watching a movie together.

maybe they spill popcorn on themselves, maybe you choke on your soda. you have a wonderful time together regardless.

you grip their hand tighter during all the sad scenes, and they run their thumb over your knuckles.

[joestarkisser]

Feel like you want to do "something" for your F/O? But you feel insecure about your ability to write or draw?

Then I recommend factbooking!

Factbooking, which is just a funky term I came up with, essentially is just collecting canon information about your F/Os! By collecting as much canon information as possible, you can feel as if you're doing that "something" for your fictional lover, and you can do it as cute as you want!

Make a pretty, aesthetic carrd or rentry, and fill it with links or beautiful images/gifs! Buy a pretty notebook and some stickers that reminds you of/is of your F/O, and handwrite the information!

Use bullet points! Links to playlists! Colored ink! Anything you want!

Even add a section for your own headcanons if you wish to!

Add their likes and dislikes, their height and weight, family situation, birthday, zodiac, blood type, themes and symbolism, anything that canon has to offer you about them!

If you're someone who's a bit of a stickler about canon, this can help you keep up on knowing everything about your F/O as canon as possible and be good reference! If you're someone who likes to diverge, this can be a good reference for what to bend to your whims!

You don't need to be "good" or "bad" at anything to factbook! Just having the dedication to collect as much canon information as possible is just like writing a beloved fanfic or creating beautiful art!

While it isn't for everyone, I definitely recommend factbooking. It can make you feel like you're really understanding your F/O on a deeper level, and you may realize some things you never noticed about your F/O before.

[mindtheliquor]

 messy colored sketch

look!! one of my main F/Os i never posted anything of publicly until now because i'm embarrassed of him...!!! 😭 idk. but yeah, selfship with warren the worm from DHMIS. i love that greasy, manipulative, horrible pink b*stard. lol

(i have brainworms frl because of him... 💕🪱)

[true-autistic-tales]

imagine feeling down, your f/o instantly notices. they place their hand out for you, pulling you close and start slow dancing. humming a song, they softly smile and admire you, they adore you and you can just feel it surrounding you. you forgot why you were down in the first place.

[gray-ace-space]

alright, let's do another survey thingie! this time, i want to know,

followers of this blog, what acespec labels do you identify with?

i got the list by going through this blog's common identity tags. there weren't enough options in the poll to fit everything, so i grouped together some of the more similar ones, but i apologize if it seems reductive.

couple things:

if multiple apply to you, choose either the one you feel the most attached to or the one that's more specific. you can elaborate in the tags or comments if u want to give me the full picture.

if you fall under the "other" category, elaborate in the tags or comments also.

if you're one of like 2 allos that follow, just scroll past, i couldn't afford to include that option lol

IF YOU DON'T FOLLOW THIS BLOG AT ALL SCROLL PAST

[seaside-lovers]

shout out to my fellow ficto self shippers who aren't comfortable sharing f/o(s) bc they are an actual relationship for you. you are so cool and i hope you have a great day

no proship please

[companionwolf]

This is me being brave but uh selfshippers / ficto folks / etc -- I'm kicking around concepts for a solo journaling TTRPG about what it's like to have a F/O; if you want to contribute a idea of what you feel is a 'core experience' for that, please do so! Negative things are okay, btw -- a lot of my own experiences are negative.

Anyway, here's what I have so far (note these are pretty personal, and pretty ... not happy):

longing / yearning / etc

knowing there will never be physicality / you will never hear their voice / etc etc etc

in that same vein, loving someone you cannot touch/etc

imagining your f/o with you

leaving notes 'from' your f/o

the self love aspect

the use of this as coping mechanism (ymmv)

this as orientation (ymmv)

imagines (ie scenarios with your f/o), headcanons, etc

interacting with f/o source

community (or lack of)

dealing with feeling shame / being picked on or hated / etc

Thanks. Remember, your F/O loves you.

[chaos-bunnyships]

btw you don’t need to do “something” to feel like you deserve your f/o, you already deserve them by existing. just by being you; they’re in love. so excited at the thought of just you, everything about you. they don’t even think about anyone else the way they think about you, it’s only you looping around their head at all times. and they wouldn’t have it any other way.