Selfship Vocabulary Guide!

Selfship: To ship yourself or a self-insert with a character, whether it be platonic, romantic, or familial.

Yume/Yumeship: A different word for selfship. Short for yumejoshi (feminine), yumedanshi (masculine), or yumejin (gender-neutral).

F/O or Fictional Other: A character that you ship yourself with.

S/i or Self-Insert: A character you created that represents yourself in the world of a series, movie, book, video game, etc. They usually (but not always) have similar personality and features to their creator.

Romantic F/Os: Fictional characters that you feel a strong romantic attraction to. You may imagine yourself being in a relationship with them.

Familial F/Os: Fictional characters that you feel are like your family. This could be characters you consider your parents, siblings, kids, etc.

Platonic F/Os: Fictional characters that you consider to be your friends or feel a platonic love towards.

OC x Canon: Shipping an original character such as a self insert with a canon character in their world.

Canon x Canon: Shipping two canon characters with each other. This may be canon in the story or not. Many selfshippers feel uncomfortable seeing their F/O in these ships.

Y/N or Your Name: Mostly used in fan fictions, it’s meant for you to insert your name into the story like a self-insert.

Comfort Character: A character that can bring somebody comfort without self inserting. (Or just in general)

Doubles or shared: F/Os that you and another person may have that are the same character

Sharing NG: “Sharing Not Good” this person is uncomfortable with sharing their F/Os or interacting with people that have the same ones

Let me know if there’s any I missed/should add!

Edit: WHY IS THIS BLOWING UP HELP 😭😭❤️❤️

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omg tysm i’ve been having to teach myself on these 😭

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“Yumejin” actually means “celebrity” in Japanese!

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you're thinking of "yuumei" which means famous. "yume" means dream.

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@sapphilleans oh I didn’t know! I’ve seen a lot of people saying yumejin was a good term for gender neutral selfshippers

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This is so helpful, thank you!

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nf/o is also the opposite of f/o. for anyone wondering

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thanks for giving this context because i myself was a little curious about all these yumeshipping things and now everything is makes sense now! I ALWAYS LOVE MAKING OC X CANON SHIP CONTENT❤️

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I’m sorry to bother you, I’m trying to teach myself, what’s nf/os and f/os ? I see them used but I’m not sure what it is

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