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str6ngled · 8 months

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#call of duty #mask kink #mask k!nk #masked men #konig call of duty #konig modern warfare #konig cod #konig imagine #konig mw2 #konig headcanons #konig x reader #konig #cod mwii #cod mw2 #military men #fictophilia

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ballsalsda · 1 month

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THIS is my favourite ship dynamic

#f/o community #f/o #s/i community #f/o x s/i #s/i #self insert #self insert x fictional other #fictional other #self shipper #self ship #f/o post #f/o positivity #fictoromantic #fictosexual #ficto community #fictophilia

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fictional-others · 8 months

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*your comfort character looking at you normally while you’re talking to them*

Their internal dialogue: ugh, why do they have to be so damned cute? I can’t take it…

#f/o community #fictional others #self ship community #f/o positivity #self shipping #f/o post #fictional other #fictoromantic #fictophilia #self shipping community #comfort character imagines #comfort character #comfort character scenario

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chaos-bunnyships · 8 months

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Spoiler: You won’t.

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leosabi · 2 months

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making out with f/o plushie literally so underrated

#self shipping #self ship #objectum #plushum #fictosexual #fictophilia #objectophilia #plushophilia

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d0llyxtears · 1 year

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Everyday I think about my f/o doing this to me … it’s the only thing that keeps me sane

#yancore #yandere #obsessive love disorder #fictophilia #fictophile #yandere self shippers #o.l.d #obsessive yandere

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true-autistic-tales · 1 year

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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.

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objectum-posic-survey · 28 days

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Objectum/POSIC Community Survey 2024

I'm running a survey of the Objectum/POSIC communities! It's running until May 1st 2024. This is born from my own curiosity, inspired by the Furry Survey demographics polls. The questions pertain to things like gender identity, orientation, forms of attraction, and objects of attraction. Fictos and alterhumans are encouraged to respond! being objectum or POSIC is not a requirement to submit a response

the only required questions are about the particular objectum/objectophile/POSIC terms you identify with and how old you are. again, this survey closes on May 1st!

#objectum #objectophilia #posic #os/or #osor #ficto community #fictosexual #fictoromantic #fictophilia #survey #straight from the horses mouth

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sumiaswife · 5 months

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Does anyone else take merch of their F/O(s) on "dates" or is it just me?

I took my Sumia acrylic figure to the local Round1 today, and we played Groove Coaster!

#f/o community #fictional other #self ship #self shipper #fictonal other #fictoromantic #f/o #fictophilia #self shipping #romantic f/o #fictosexual #self ship community #self shipping community #self x canon

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lunas-fictional-harem · 5 months

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Any other self-shippers lowkey dread getting interested in a new piece of media because there is like a 50/50 chance you’re gonna walk out with like 5 new F/O’s?

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astralselfships · 1 year

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🌸 But just imagine your F/O reacting to you being timid/ a timid S/I.

Timid- shy and modest, easily frightened

If your F/O is the confident, cocky type, imagine the amount of teasing: never to make you feel bad, not for them to laugh at you but you two to end up laughing together. They'll ease every situation you encounter. This F/O will be your voice: imagine how they show you off to everyone, complimenting you tirelessly and loudly.

However, if your F/O is more introverted, PDA might not be a big thing, but you know that once a bad word about you escapes someone's mouth, they're dead (either metaphorically or literally 🤭)

Oh what a slow ride you two have! Lazy and wholesome moments, quiet times and the cutest dates ever!!!

Imagine how, for you, they will make exceptions to their introversion and hold you hand in public if they feel you overwhelmed. 🫶

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fictional-others · 2 months

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Imagine getting a paper cut and your f/o being all cute and concerned. They’d whip out a first aid kit, taking care to clean the little cut, putting a bandaid with neosporin on it. They’d kiss it afterwards oh so sweetly. It wasn’t a big deal, and they knew that. They just care so much about you, that seeing you even a little teensy bit hurt is too much for them to bear.

#f/o community #fictional others #self ship community #f/o positivity #self shipping #romantic f/o #f/o post #fictional other #fictoromantic #fictophilia #platonic f/o

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chaos-bunnyships · 8 months

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Imagine your villain f/o exacting revenge on those who hurt/harmed you in your life. If you have specific preferences or requests as to how the revenge is carried out, they'll listen and happily do it for you. If you want to participate, they'll let you. Because they love you... and the only person allowed to hurt you is them.

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the-kittyphiles · 6 months

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- Fictautophilia -

A paraphilic attraction to fictional characters that look like oneself.

Edit: *A paraphilic attraction to fictional characters that look like/act like/are relatable to oneself.

Combination of this ficto flag and this auto flag!

Free to use/repost without credit for anyone EXCEPT big 3 pro-contact.

[ID: A flag with seven horizontal stripes going from black, to grey, to blue, to white, to purple, to grey, to black. There is a circle with a heart made from an arrow in the centre.

Graham, a calico cat, putting his paw up beside text that reads, “DNI: People who like the Percy Jackson movies /j” End ID]

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ballsalsda · 30 days

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Bad comic xP

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fanhackers · 9 months

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Fictophilia

If I were to simplify (okay, fine: oversimplify) the field of fan studies, I’d say that scholars typically take one of two broad disciplinary approaches: either they look at fan works (and come from fields like literary studies, media and film studies, etc.) or they look at fan cultures and social organizations (ethnography, anthropology.) But other academic disciplines produce research that might be pertinent to fans and fan studies–for instance, psychology.

I recently came across an article called “Fictosexuality, Fictoromance, and Fictophilia: A Qualitative Study of Love and Desire for Fictional Characters,” (2020) written by Veli-Matti Karhulahti and Tanja Välisalo in the journal Frontiers of Psychology. The abstract explains:

Fictosexuality, fictoromance, and fictophilia are terms that have recently become popular in online environments as indicators of strong and lasting feelings of love, infatuation, or desire for one or more fictional characters. This article explores the phenomenon by qualitative thematic analysis of 71 relevant online discussions. Five central themes emerge from the data: (1) fictophilic paradox, (2) fictophilic stigma, (3) fictophilic behaviors, (4) fictophilic asexuality, and (5) fictophilic supernormal stimuli. The findings are further discussed and ultimately compared to the long-term debates on human sexuality in relation to fictional characters in Japanese media psychology. Contexts for future conversation and research are suggested.

The article is generally descriptive and nonjudgmental, and the authors note that “the present intention is not to propose fictophilia as a problem or a disorder,” but instead to assert that most people are “fully aware of the love-desire object’s fictional status and the parasocial nature of the relationship.” (In other words, we’re mostly pretty sane!) The essay also cites some interesting work that I’ve not seen typically referenced in literary or ethnographic fan studies works, including the proto-fan studies text Imaginary Social Worlds, by John L. Caughey (1984). While Caughey’s book (like many works of the 1980s) starts by evoking the figure of crazy or even homicidal fan (think Mark David Chapman or John Hinkley), his goal is to argue that ‘fantasy relationships’ are actually pretty normal. The book looks at “fantasy relationships” across history, connecting fan crushes on characters and celebrities “to the lifelong bonds that people in different cultures have conventionally had with gods, monarchs, spirits, and other figures that they may never have had the chance to meet in person.” While Caughey’s book is focused on Western history, Karhulahti and Välisalo’s “Fictosexuality” takes its examples primarily from Japan, examining numerous psychological studies of “Japan and its fiction-consuming ‘otaku’ cultures.” This gives it a global take not always seen in English-language fan studies texts (which tend to deal primarily with Western media.) “Fictosexuality” is also unusual for its interest in making connections between asexuality and fictophilia, asexuality also being underrepresented (and under-theorized) in fan studies texts.

Fans have historically been wary of any attempt to psychoanalyse them–and fair enough: after all, it was only recently that people stopped assuming that all fans were out-of-control “fanatics,” and there’s been a lot of creepy and misleading work on fandom done by outsiders. (If you want agita, look up SurveyFail on Fanlore.) But psychology and related fields may also have methods which allow us to understand fans and fandom in new ways.

–Francesca Coppa, Fanhackers volunteer

#author: Francesca Coppa #fanhackers #psychology #fictophilia #I love many imaginary people #and some real ones :D

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