My Selfshipping Shrine

A whole shrine dedicated not only to my experience as a selfshipper, but my f/o’s, present and past (along with fictional crushes).

How long have you been a selfshipper?

I’d say since around maybe 4th grade?, with a period where I stopped around 8th grade until rediscovering myself around 2025, though I didn’t start labelling myself as one until 2025.

Are you sharing or non sharing?

I like to see myself as being sharing, I am personally pretty apathetic seeing people ship themselves, their oc’s, or canon characters with my F/O’s, If they’re having fun and enjoying themself then thats cool. Though if you’re nonsharing and happen to notice that a character I happen to ship myself with also happens to be one of your F/O’s then you’re free to block me if that makes you more comfortable.

Why do you selfship?

It’s pretty simple (kind of) for one, I think it’s one of my many ways to show my passion and affection for characters I really REALLY like.

I also like to selfship as a way to explore my fantasy about being in a romantic relationship without actually being in one. Personally when it comes to real people not only have I never been able to form any sort of romantic attraction or have any sort of romantic crush on anyone and honestly even if so I’m honestly pretty repulsed by the thought of actually being in a romantic relationship and engaging in romantic activities with another person for many reasons, which I know sounds like an oxymoron considering how I’m pretty gushy about romantic stuff and do fantasize about romance, along with the fact that I ship myself with fictional characters romantically. So because of all of that I think selfshipping is something I do kind of as a way to explore my yearning and fascination for something I probably won’t and don’t want to experience in reality.

I also just do it because it makes me feel happy and comfortable, idk if it’s a coping mechanism or not because alot of stuff like my art, characters, projects, and interest, while being stuff that makes me happy, I also to an extent use as an outlet to help cope, so all of it is so muddy that I don’t know if I can really consider it a coping mechanism or not.

Are you a furry?

I feel like some people might question this since my current F/O’s just so happen to be anthromorphic animals and the answer is no. While I am someone who does enjoy and creates anthromorphic creatures and animals, along with having an interest in looking into the furry community and furry culture and history. I don’t consider myself one in any shape or form due to multiple reasons. And just like how I believe drawing anthromorphic creatures doesn’t automatically make someone a furry, I feel like being attracted to anthromorphic characters doesn’t automatically make someone a furry.

Also since I’ve seen people act very weird around selfshippers who ship themselves with anthro characters I just want to say no, I’m not attracted to animals, while I do care alot about and have a connection to animals, I’m not attracted to them. I find it very gross and I don’t tolerate being around people who are open about their (or enable and tolerate others) attraction towards animals (same goes for other vulnerable groups that can’t consent like children and corpses). and while you're at it please be more normal about anthro characters, I mean the whole thing about “anthro” is to humanize something, not just animals.

“Get a job” “Get a real partner” “Parentless behavior” “Go touch grass”

1. While I don’t have a job right now I have had part time jobs in the past and do plan on applying to work somewhere in my college campus again when I get back to school.

2. Like I said before I’ve never felt any sort of romantic connection towards anyone and I’m repulsed by the idea of being in a romantic relationship with a person.

3. To your surprise I do have parents (even if I want to get the fuck away from this family because dear god I don’t want to be associated with these ignorant idiots anymore).

4. Fun fact: I like to go outside my neighborhood and take walks, and on campus I prefer to walk to my locations, I also enjoy swinging outside my house.

Are you Fictosexual/romantic?

Personally I don’t see myself as such, when it comes to my sexual orientation I just experience so very little of it in regards to others, fictional or not, and while talking it does sound like that I might be fictoromantic from the way I talk about my romantic attraction, honestly I feel like my romantic attraction and orientation is just 20 levels of fucked that I just label myself as arospec for simplicity sake. Also no shade to anyone who does identify as fictosexual and/or fictoromantic, I’m pretty accepting and don’t really care enough for queer discourse I have larger things to care about, be who you are and be free (as long as you aren’t hurting others, yourself, marginalized groups, and children and animals).

Do you have any merch of your F/O’s?

In regards to both official and unofficial, no. Official merch wise my F/O’s have very little to nothing when it comes to official stuff, and while making my own or commissioning others sounds nice, I want to wait until I’m living on my own because I’ve been trying to keep my interests like these as far away from them as I can, idk I feel like they wouldn’t be supportive of me liking games that feature a shit ton of queer characters. (Plus they also hate furries so again while I’m not a furry, I don’t want to know their reaction if they ever find out I want to kiss a anthromorphic bird and serpent).

My Current F/O's

This section is for my current F/O's

Little tidbits that usually apply to all of my selfships

I like to view all of my relationships as being autism4autism, I tend to project alot okay?

I tend to usually portray my ships through self inserts that usually have some differences between me (and I’m not talking about them being anthro foxes), usually in personality and the such.

Along with my self inserts, I like to imagine them being the ones to initiate the relationship.

I also like to imagine my self inserts being the more openly affectionate ones in the relationship.

My self inserts, while having multiple ways to express their affection, I like to image mostly displaying it through physical affection (which is funny since I’m utterly repulsed by being touched irl, maybe I’m just starved for something I despise at the same time lol).

Swatch

Media: Deltarune

Became my F/O on: June 23rd 2025

Self insert: Swirly (deltarune au)

Ship name: Latte Art shipping

Emoji Combo: 🐦‍⬛🦊

Headcannons:

How I found out I was a Swatch selfshipper

You know its honestly funny because I didn’t really care for them all that much when I first played chapter 2 all the way when it came out, like yeah I thought they were cool but that was really it, it wasn’t until I started replaying the first two chapters before playing 3 and 4 as a bit of celebration and seeing Swatch again at the cafe, I don’t know why but something about me felt funny, in a good way, I guess a warm nice feeling, I don’t know how to describe emotions but just know that it was very clear I liked Swatch in a way different way than I did before and next thing you know I want to kiss them.

It’s also kind of funny because I like to admit I’m not really into muscular/buff characters/body types (no shade to anyone who is muscular or who likes people/characters like that, you do you and thats awesome) so it kind of surprises me that I like them so much, it could be that they’re also someone who dresses formally, which is a type of character I enjoy alot… like alot…

Misc stuff and headcannons

I actually have a selfinsertxcannon ship kid between the two of them, that being this little critter (this is also kind of ironic since kids in reality overwhelm me and I don’t ever view myself ever having a child in the future, and honestly considering the fact I struggle to care for myself at times I don’t think I can ever care for a child)

Also no the child wasn’t conceived through the means you think of it, the way I see it I just like to imagine one day out of nowhere they received an egg that just so happens to hold a little Swatchling inside that seems to mix their traits. Sorry not sorry.

Swirly is heads over heels for Swatch and tends to get very cheesy when it comes to how she displays her affection for them.

Swirly is a bit shorter compared to Swatch, not like super small but theres a noticeable difference.

Bobo

Media: Everhood 2

Became my F/O on: February 17 2026

Self insert: Ehmalgy

Ship name: Tragic comedian shipping

Emoji Combo: 🎀🃏

Cannon stuff?:

Headcannon stuff:

How I found out I was a Bobo selfshipper

So kind of a similar situation with Swatch is where when I played everhood 2 for the first time I didn’t really care for them all that much. Though some months later I remember when I was first making my self insert I remember joking around with the idea of them being like some sans fangirl like mary sue but for Everhood so I kind of thought it would be very funny to ship them with Bobo as a joke. But then for some reason somewhere out in February it no longer became a joke when I started to get similar funny feelings like I did with Swatch and next thing you know I also want to kiss this pathetic evil ugly bastard (affectionate).

I think there's multiple aspects that can contribute to this but I think one part is because I’m a big stupid jesterkisser (would have said jesterfucker as that has more oomph in my opinion, but I don’t want people to get the wrong idea about me). Honestly I can’t look at with fucker without feeling all fuzzy and stuff, which I don’t mind lol.

Misc stuff and headcannons

Ehmalgy is taller than Bobo.

Idk if this is like a trope but I like to image their relationship being like, matching eachothers freak levels or something like that idk these two can be horrible together :3

I like to view our relationship as a open relationship.

Despite me liking to see the relationship more as romantic, I also see it kind of bordering between being a romantic and queerplatonic relationship with like a romantic lean.

Kind of unrelated but everytime I see someone misgender Bobo all I can think back to is that one image that's like “his pronouns are they/them” but it’s like with me and Bobo lol (having a F/O that gets misgendered alot is fucking pain man).

Despite me liking to call them “my spouse” I don’t really see us as being like married or anything like that.

BOBO GIF COLLECTION RAHH

Past F/O's

Characters I shipped myself with at some point in my life but no longer do, still worth to bring them up though.

SwaySway

Media: Breadwinners

SwaySway was basically my selfshipping awakening in a way. To start off yes I was an unironic Breadwinners fan at one point, in fact it was an hyperfixation of mine back in elementary school, and I think SwaySway was the biggest reason for me being into the show. I would often draw myself in the Breadwinners universe hanging out with the characters in my shitty notebook that was breaking apart, and I even drew me and SwaySway getting married.

It doesn’t stop at just art, I used to daydream about us singing love songs together on my mp3 or me imaging myself singing the song to him (and vice versa), one song I remember was “Love Me Like You Do”

I say I stopped shipping myself with him around 6th grade, mainly because not only did I feel like my attraction towards him just wasn’t there anymore, but I also just started growing out of the show in general.

Fred

Media: Minecraft Story Mode Season 2

So around a little bit after I got into MCSM I also developed a crush on this guy, which eventually lead to me making a self insert mary sue for a very self indulgent MCSM au where the two of them would get together and get married, hell I even made fankids for us.

Though around 2019 came around and I got attracted to another character from another game, my attraction kind of fizzled out and that was the end of it.

Mettaton

Media: Undertale

Just like with Fred and MCSM I quickly gravitated towards Mettaton when I got into Undertale, and I also happen to have a self insert mary sue that I would ship with him (though it was different as this was my old sona that I would use to ship myself with, one that happened to be an anthromorphic vulpix, what kind of crossover episode is this). Hell it got so bad that I had a couple of dreams involving him and I was my sona. I also remember making various ut au’s to ship with various versions of mettaton and figure out different lore and dynamics and shit (which is funny looking back as I never really cared about the utau scene and still kind of do, idk maybe if 99.9% didn’t focus on the same like 1-4 characters I would have been more into it).

Though around late 2020 my attraction towards him also ended up fading, though It had less to do about me losing interest in the character and I think more about me growing more insecure about being seen as “cringe”, including my desire to kiss fictional characters, and seeing alot of people act hostile towards those like me (and honestly I still see this kind of attitude and hostility alot today, even from people who claim to hate cringe culture) it made me feel insecure and lose alot of my confidence and self esteem. And while I gained enough confidence again to start selfshipping and while I still like Mettaton as a character, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to regain that spark like I did in the past.

Fictional Crushes

A section dedicated to characters that while I don’t ship myself with, still make me feel warm and fuzzy and I find alluring, even if it’s not as intense, who knows maybe one day one of them will be bumped up it’s only a matter of time. (also ignore how some of these are me just being like “PLEASE JUST HEAR ME OUT!!!!”)

Note that I'm to lazy to put the names of characters and where there from, if you want to learn more about a character, clicking on them will direct you to a wiki page about them (note that some are fandom wikis so just keep that in mind)

Romantic Crushes

Platonic Crushes

Past/Childhood/Preteen Crushes