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SHE’S HERE!!!!! this print is so so gorgeous and it came with so many other cute little things as well!!!!

(link to the shop where I got this from!!)

#heart of the void #selfshipping #..in that this is a gush post #love: wayfinding waters (aqua) #look at her!!!!! >w< #and there was a bonus extra ventus too!! #friend: wind from ancient days (ventus) #of hearts and friendship (kingdom hearts) #it arrived yesterday I think which was absolutely excellent timing considering that’s the day I got back here #this is *such* a lovely art style #but for the moment I am going back to bed because my throat really hurts and I would like that to stop

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#I also have two half-siblings!! and they have two half-siblings as well I think? or they might be their step-siblings #but I don’t think those two are connected to me in any way #not strictly about selfshipping #but a number of my familial F/Os are F/Os because they remind me of my siblings a bit #ardbert is the main example coming to mind right now #reblog tag

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more of her ^-^

have you seen my wife?

now you have ^-^

#heart of the void #selfshipping #love: crown of clovers (clio) #FFXIV!clio #of shards and crystal (final fantasy) #void plays FFXIV #the outfit with the dress is her red mage glamour! which.. is not necessarily canon but I think she looks good in it #and then the outfit with the blue coat is just her heavensward appearance. she gets a new outfit for each expansion #my aim is to try and get to shadowbringers before the graphics update. I calculated that if I can do 5 quests per day i'll get there in tim #if I was more confident with group /gpose then i would try and make some selfship pictures.. but i am not

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if you're okay with others selfshipping with your ocs...

#no? what would OCs have to do with it #my self-inserts are me. so i don't think i would be very comfy with it for that reason #selfshipping #reblog tag #selfshipping polls

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have you seen my wife?

now you have ^-^

#heart of the void #selfshipping #love: crown of clovers (clio) #FFXIV!clio #of shards and crystal (final fantasy) #void plays FFXIV #..in a sense? since these are my screenshots from that game #this is her heavensward appearance ^-^ she has a different outfit for each expansion #the hat is because it gets cold in ishgard

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To give some more specific examples of what I was talking about in the last post I made, for my own selfshipping experience:

I haven’t exactly created much story for this selfship yet, but I want to make an HMDS Cute save file on my phone where I play as my self-insert Emily and marry Skye, so.. whatever the in-game timings of the heart events will be is going to be the canon time those events take place in the story!

Similarly, I think I lost all my Skyrim stuff when I rebooted my laptop, but I want to create a playthrough to go through with Serana, and the details of my selfship with her can be taken from that actual playthrough.

In the second timeline of Reborn, Adriana wins her Gym battle against Ciel with only her Silvally and Roserade left standing, and then evolves her Murkrow into Honchkrow to allow her to fly back to Iolia Valley to see Luna. This is because, when I first got to this point in my own playthrough, I wrote down how each turn of the battle went to be able to write about it most accurately!

In the story of my selfship with Perun, her Core Crystal is found by Mòrag in the Leftherian Archipelago because this is where and by whom Perun was first awakened in the first save file I played that had her in it. (I also have a record of finding KOS-MOS in the exact same location twice in a row!)

My Kingdom Hearts self-insert, Aria, was assumed to be 15 when she was found by Livian in Daybreak Town, 16 when she joined the Sapphires after an incident in her previous party, and 18 when Daybreak Town fell. This is because I was 15 when I met my old best friend (whose self-insert was Livian) through KHUX, 16 when we switched parties and joined the in-game Sapphires together, and 18 when the final story quest released and the servers shut down. I always envision my self-inserts to be the same age as me (because they are all me), so in Aria’s case she “catches back up to me” after being in the realm of darkness since time doesn’t pass properly in there and I can use that as my reasoning.

This one is angsty, but: in my save file of Dragon Quest IX where I played as Ardea and Pavo was in my party, Ardea dealt the final blow to the final boss, but our other two party members (Avalon and Iris) had been wiped out. In canon, you eat the final fygg to become mortal and then the bonus one from the postgame to let yourself see Stella again, but in my version of events, Ardea eats the final fygg to free herself from Celestrian laws, then the bonus one is eaten to bring Iris and Avalon back because they died during the final boss fight.

Stuff like this can really be so fun to incorporate ^-^

#heart of the void #selfshipping #this is going to be quite the mixture of tags #selfship: a farmer and a thief (skye/emily) #selfship: under a bloodcursed sun (serana/camille) #selfship: void‑kissed (luna/adriana) #self‑insert: soul‑touched (adriana) #selfship: love trust and diamond dust (perun/sapphire) #self‑insert: darkness' champion (aria) #selfship: a celestial rapport (pavo/ardea) #though it’s moreso about the party

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connecting things that happened when you played the game your F/O is in, to the story of your selfship with that F/O, is something that can truly be so special

#I can’t remember if that’s the exact wording of the thing I was intending to reference but the idea is there nevertheless #heart of the void #selfshipping #feel free to reblog if you agree #just please be aware of my boundaries (e.g. by checking my carrd) before doing so #this can be about as big or as small of an event as you want it to #maybe they’re a playable character and they were the one to deal the final hit to a really strong enemy #maybe they’re a boss battle and your self-insert was the one who did that to them instead of anyone else in the party #maybe you spent six in-game hours finding loads of their favourite gift to give them #write it down or draw it or something! make a note! connect gameplay to story! it can be such a satisfying thing to do #I want to keep this post quite general because I’m hoping other people agree with me about this #but I am going to make another post with some more specific examples for my own selfships

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Today is the 26th of April, which is Lesbian Visibility Day!!

So, shoutout again to lesbian selfshippers!!!~

wishing all lesbian selfshippers a very happy Lesbian Visibility Week this week!!! ^-^

#selfshipping #selfshipping positivity #heart of the void #this post is okay to reblog if anyone wants to #just please be aware of my boundaries (e.g. by checking my carrd) before doing so

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Aqua

#I love her #love: wayfinding waters (aqua) #of hearts and friendship (kingdom hearts) #reblog tag

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height difference problem no.48

#awwww!! #you did so well with the armour oh my goodness #selfshipping #stuff from other selfshippers #other selfships #clara tag! #reblog tag #of war and tactics (fire emblem)

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I miss you. (post-lesson 16, pre-resurrection. Going on without your loved one sure is difficult, huh...)

My notes as usual

Page 1... The flowers I drew atop the gazebo are supposed to be hyacinth and yarrow (you can also see the hyacinth faintly beside Levi on page 2). Yarrow can be for healing and protection, hyacinth for regret and apology. Putting them together I wanted it to subconsciously mean "I'm sorry I couldn't protect you" ww also apparently depending on color (?) hyacinths can also represent jealousy! Fascinating

The flower crown is made of lilies Yes because yuri of COURSE but also because they're very common funeral flowers

Can't draw the MC's room didn't feel like it but she is in Laz's bed on the last page yeah.

Okay now. Um. Hi everyone sorry for #cringe @kylars-princess @sweethardtz @radahns-cub (<3) @gible-love-nibles @lovinggreeniehours @prismaticuniverses @flowering-darkness @over--heaven @anachrennism @frozenhi-chews @stellarpuppy

#as someone who admittedly knows literally nothing about the plot of this setting: #*ouch.* #(IN A GOOD WAY JUST ALSO A PAINFUL WAY. I'M HOPING THINGS GET BETTER WITH THE RESURRECTION MENTIONED???) #selfshipping #stuff from other selfshippers #other selfships #atari tag! #reblog tag

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it can be important to not only have f/os who are people, but f/os which are places. i don't mean f/o in a romantic sense (although you're valid to feel that way), but in a home sense. i call them home f/os. i think everyone should have a fictional space they love and enjoy where they can escape to without only having a character attached. this can be a whole fictional community you feel at home with, or simply the physicality of a setting that you just love. you can have f/os from this media or none at all. having a personal fictional area that invokes the sense of safety, comfort and being at home gives you the opportunity to step away from reality and feel sheltered and enveloped in a different way that character f/os don't. i feel many people have home f/os without realizing it, but if you don't, think about it! where's your home away from home, in another reality?

pr*ship/neutral please dni

#oh!! I remember seeing this but I don't think I actually responded to say what mine could be #for me I would say.. daybreak town from KHUX + sootopolis city from pokémon (pretty much all of the hoenn region honestly) #the observatory from DQIX (to some extent) + forget-me-not valley from HMDS + treasure town/wigglytuff's guild from PMD sky #also possibly hearthome city and laverre city from pokémon + garfont village from XC2 #plus like.. the entire mirror world from kirby and the amazing mirror. which i'm aware is The Whole Game but nevertheless #lots of places feel very special to me in the games I play but I think these ones feel the most apt for what you've described #selfshipping #reblog tag #you may notice that most of these places are important in the story of my selfships or self-inserts as well ^-^ #but in almost all cases they were already important to me before I started actively selfshipping

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so I may or may not have been selfshipping with Aqua for over six years now

#heart of the void #selfshipping #love: wayfinding waters (aqua) #selfship: survivors of the dark (aqua/aria) #the exact timing is very much up in the air because I have so few records of the timeframe given various events that occurred #but based on what things I *can* find.. i'm fairly confident that I was using aria to selfship with aqua before september 2018 #and I know I started developing aria's lore more concretely in january/february of that year #so.. it makes sense to me to conclude that I might have started pairing her with aqua quite shortly after that began? #I didn't call it selfshipping but arguably only because I wasn't properly aware of the term/community/etc. so it could still count #and if so then that's sort of like wow. like where did the time go. #i know i haven't spoken about aqua much at all for a fair bit actually but.. she does definitely still mean a lot to me #self‑insert: darkness' champion (aria) #forgot that tag #of hearts and friendship (kingdom hearts) #of lux and daybreak (union x)

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anti-aqua

#okay so I had seen this art before but simon sent it to me last night so here it is again #she is so incredibly cool and pretty so I am more than happy to reblog it once more hehehe #love: darkling darling (anti‑aqua) #of hearts and friendship (kingdom hearts) #reblog tag #thank you for sending this post to me

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Just a small doodle of Aqua since I’m so excited about Kingdom Hearts release. I hope she gets to smile in this game!

#she is so tiny!! #love: wayfinding waters (aqua) #of hearts and friendship (kingdom hearts) #reblog tag #thank you for sending this post to me

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Imagine your f/o wearing cat ear headphones.

proship/comship/neutral DNI

#luna already does!!! she canonically is wearing them after the timeskip when you see her in another time #I’m fairly sure she has them regardless of who you take with you as well which makes it all the more canonical a part of her design~ #love: dark dreamer (luna) #selfshipping #selfshipping imagines #reblog tag

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Love you.

#OH WAIT I DID NOT SEE THIS #it's so nice!!! #selfshipping #stuff from other selfshippers #other selfships #reblog tag