#oc x canon positivity

[jojolovenotes]

I think we all deserve to be a little self indulgent as a treat ♡

#sending transmission 🌙 #f/o positivity #oc x canon positivity #oc x canon #selfship positivity #♡♡♡

[captainofthepearl]

#oc/self insert positivty #oc x canon positivity #pirates of the caribbean #share your creations matey #historical oc #potc

[gritsandbrits]

Reblog to scare racist Anons

Jora x Big Chill commission by @strawberryoverlord

#noelani x sonic #selfshipping #oc x canon #si x canon #black self shipper #interracial #selfship positivity #except Noelani she isnt a self insert But still counts bc shes BLACK AND PROUD #oc x canon positivity #cringe is dead

[mothwiingz]

hey btw there’s nothing wrong with shipping your ocs with canon characters. or shipping yourself with a canon character. even if you have a crush on the character. you are hurting literally no one. you can do whatever you want. cringe culture is dead

#positivity #self ship #self shipping #oc x canon

[moving-to-dreamwinged]

one time on another platform when i was super new to self shipping i was like. how can you believe your f/o loves you back? and someone replied “don’t they bring you comfort? that is their love for you”

#i think about that. so so so so so so often #has given me more comfort than literally anything else ever when it comes to self shipping #it computes to me yk? that’s how they love you back.. by being a proxy for your happiness.. augh. #like. augh. aaaah #f/o #normally i’m rlly cynical about everything but this works so so so well for me idk idk #self ship #self shipper #self ship community #f/o comfort #f/o positivity #.f/o positivity #f/o community #oc x canon #f/o x s/i

[espresso-ships]

To all self-shippers that struggle with mental health

I see you - and same <3

Here's some comfort content :')

🦋💕🦋💕🦋💕

Imagine...

Your f/o, being there by your side,

They call to check up on you, and when you tell them "I'm fine" they see right through your lie.

Your f/o, who almost rushes over to you - wanting to provide comfort. "You didn't have to-" "But I did." "But you have work and...-" "Do you seriously think I'll choose work over you?" Your f/o, that makes sure you eat and drink throughout the day,

Fixing food for you and bringing you water.

Your f/o, that runs you a warm bath or helps you wash your hair.

That wraps you in a fresh towel afterwards.

Your f/o, that puts on your favorite show,

Whilst holding you close to them.

Your f/o, that offers you a shoulder to cry on

That listens to your problems and lets you vent.

Your f/o, that holds you close, not leaving your side.

That does everything just to see your smile.

Your f/o, that loves you unconditionally.

Only you.

🦋💕🦋💕🦋💕

#self shipping #f/o comfort #self ship #f/o community #self ship community #f/o #fictional other #self insert community #oc x f/o #oc x canon #romantic f/o #self ship comfort #imagine your f/o #self ship imagines #f/o imagines #self ship imagine #self ship positivity

[sunflawyer]

imagine: the warmth of your f/o's body pressed against yours as they snuggled you up in the comfort of your bed.

their arm draped over your waist from behind, pulling you close as they buried their face on your hair. their gentle breath tickled the crown of your head, and you couldn't resist letting out a soft giggle.

they felt so warm. so comforting. you can feel their heartbeat against your back. your hearts beat in sync.

so cozy. you don't ever want to let them go. you want to be in their arms forever and ever.

they're your safe haven.

#⛅imayogines #self ship #oc x canon #self insert #self insert community #f/o community #fictional other #fictional other imagines #fictional other community #imagine your fictional other #fictoromantic #self insert imagine #self insert imagines #f/o #f/o comfort #f/o imagines #f/o positivity #self ship comfort

[weird-fish-thingy]

Weird question but

Would you kiss your F/O on the belly?

#f/o #self shipping #self ship #self ship community #self shipping community #f/o community #imagine your f/o #self insert x canon #oc x canon #selfship #self ship positivity

[earl-grey-love]

Your f/os love you unconditionally. It doesn't matter to them if you think you look bad today, or if you're struggling, or if you did something you think they wouldn't approve of. They love you. Nothing will change that. They love you at your best, your worst, and your mediocre. They love you more than anything.

🚫 DNI if you pr*ship

#self ship #self shipping #self ship imagines #self ship positivity #self shippers #self ship community #sunny imagines #f/o imagines #f/o x self insert #oc x canon #romantic f/o imagines #platonic f/o imagines #f/o community #f/o positivity

[arttrampbelle]

Why ship canon x canon when you can just ship yourself with canon character?

It's 2023 get over yourself. Self ship. You self ship with that character rn!

Make an oc. Make a self insert. Make yourself love that blorbo. Ffs!

Fuck what people think. Stop being a bitch and do it! You go fucking love that character!!!

I am being aggressively self ship positive.

If anyone gives you flack for self shipping. I will find them and throw hands!

Like srsly cringe culture is dead. It's time to be clown!

#self shipping #self ship #fr tho im tired of people being weird with self shipping just do it already #im sick of canon x canon ships when the op could have just made a self insert oc or self shipped the character with themselves #like holy shit cringe culture is dead as a doornail and y'all still worried about what some rando online thinks of you #like get out there and love your faves! #go out here n love yourselves too #plz #self shipping positivity #aggressively positive posting

[mothfinite]

a message for my fellow chronically ill/physically disabled selfshippers:

your f/os love you even if you have to go through a lot of procedures/doctors appointments/labs

your f/os love you even if your symptoms are considered 'gross' or 'weird'

your f/os love you even if you have a 'gross' condition or one thats made fun of

your f/os love you even if you use mobility/disability aids

your f/os love you even if your spoons are low and makes things like personal hygeine hard to manage

your f/os love you even if youre struggling with pain and dont have energy for anything more than existing

your f/os love you and will always be there to support you and take care of you if needed, they love you for all of you ♡

pr0ship/c0mship dni

#self ship #self ship community #f/o #fictional other #f/o community #safeship #self shipping #oc x canon #f/o imagines #self ship positivity #꒰ sunshowers.exe ꒱ 🪷 #this is very self indulgent esp experiencing chronic bowel issues #and having to deal with my autoimmune disease/lupus

[meulinmakesmatesprites]

ദ്ദി ˉ͈̀꒳ˉ͈́ )✧ < REBLOG WITH YOUR F/O AND ILL GIVE YOU AN IKEA PLUSHIE!! ILL START!! :33

ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ < THROW IN UR HEADCANNONS TOO!! IT HELPS!! > _ 0

#self ship #cronus #bard of hope #self insert #self shipper #self shipping community #self shipping #self ship community #self ship positivity #f/o #oc x canon #fictional other #s/i #romantic f/o #f/o community #f/o imagines #imagine your f/o #cronus ampora #homestuck cronus #hs cronus #Homestuck f/o #dualscar #homestuck

[gritsandbrits]

I love you self inserts i love you unironic mary sues i love you inserting yourself into the canon as if you always existed i love you ocs with tolkien-level backstories i love you ocs only meant to be shipped with canon i love you overpowered sonic ocs who can break the universe i love you deviantart recolors i love you crossover fandoms i love you sparkledogs i love you alicorns i love you killing cringe culture-

#mary sues #oc x canon #oc #fan character #self insert #selfshipping #self ship positivity #cringe culture is dead

[the-cat-and-the-birdie]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but you should make an OC.

You should make an OC. Specifically a Spider-Sona. Like now. Preferably yesterday. [A MEDIUM-LONG essay about OC's, fanfiction, and how to enrich and better your writing skills in literally every sector. Throughout this essay I reference my two characters Disco-Spider and Inca-Spider as examples of the way OCs can be used.]

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"But no one cares about OCs -"

OKKAYYYY??

IDK about ya'll but fandom is NOT my final destination no siree

I feel like a lot of the time we get so caught up in posting and notes we forget that for many artists and writers on this platform - fanfiction is not the true end goal.

Many of us write and draw fanart for years -

But the fact of the matter is if you want to be an author someday, if you want to be a graphic novelist, an animator, etc, etc - You're going to HAVE to make OCs.

If you want to study English in college or publish books - you're gonna have to write an OC at least once. If not hundreds of times.

If you want to study art - chances are at some point you're gonna have to fill a portfolio with original pieces, including some of OCs.

If you want to do something with your writing, if you want to get better - or make a career out of your art, you HAVE to make OCs at some point.

And this is especially true for fanfiction writers.

You can get very very very good at writing in your specific fandoms, you may have the emotions of the characters on point, and the ability to describe the scenery.

But if you don't know how to create and design a character - if you don't know how to worldbuild, or come up with scenarios without the help of characterai and ChatGPT - you won't be able to write a book.

If you're an artist and you don't know how to draw an original character from scratch, how to match colors, how to draw certain skin tones, certain hair, wheelchairs and mobility aids, how to design a character from looks, to clothing - it's going to be so hard to expand your art outside of fanart. You'll always be beholden to the notes and popularity of your particular fandom.

Do it - even if you've never written or never draw before. Even better.

That's why I CHAMPION Spider-sonas so much. They're basically OCs on easy mode.

Can't write backgrounds yet? Here's a bucket on canon events to pick from? Can't draw faces? Blank mask with eyes.

Hell, if you're really really new about it - just pick a character and make a slightly different variant. Make a Hobie of your own, make a Peter variant. Make a Mary Jane variant. Pick a something you like and turn that into a character.

Can't write? Just fill-in the 'My name is [blank], I was bitten by a [blank]' script that Miles does. Can't draw, just draw out a basic shape of a body and color-out the suit, no fancy pose needed. That still counts!!

Make a self-insert. Make yourself fit into the story, design your suit, write out how you fight crime, how you'd act at the Society, meeting Miguel or Miles.

That's still character design, that's still worldbuilding.

We always hear people say 'Make art for yourself' and yeah that sounds nice - but people also misinterpret it.

Make art for yourself doesn't just mean making art that you personally like.

Making art for yourself also means making art that develops your skills even if no one gives a fuck. It's about making art as practice without the intention of it being 'completed', making OCs that never get used, drawing locations you see or writing a random ass short story then shoving it into your Google Drive forever.

Making art for yourself means making art that invests in yourself.

It means making art that interests you, challenges you, or helps you develop.

And making OC's helps develop your fanfic writing skills.

In may fandoms we begin to fall into these routine 'tropes' between characters and their personalities. This is usually known as the 'fanon' characterization.

Because when you have a set amount of characters and people, there's also a set amount of interactions and relationships between those people.

Writing OCs and having those OCs interact with canon characters allows you to dig deeper into sides of the canon characters we'd never otherwise see.

That's why I wrote Disco-Spider Diane like I do. Often, we see Hobie characterized as the chaotic, rowdy, confident type - which is perfect characterization for him. But in almost all of his interactions - he's the wilder, bolder, extroverted one. I wanted to put him in a situation where for once, he was the calmer one. I wanted to explore more grounded and chill sides of Hobie, one where he's the one grounding the other, and thinking logically - because in canon, we're hinted at a side of Hobie who's way more methodical and slow-paced and willing to stop and wait it out and play it off. And I wanted to see that. I wanted to explore what he'd do if he was faced with someone just as chaotic, who put on a cheeky ironic act - just the same as him.

Because no other characters serve that purpose in canon.

If there are elements of a character or concept you think are interesting but outright ignored by canon and fanon, you can create an OC to explore those parts.

For Disco-Spider: I wanted to explore how someone like a militant Black Panther would handle being Spider-woman, when Spider-people are usually shown as pacifists - what that would look like or how it'd shape her morals based on era, etc. For Inca-Spider: I realized there were so many culture based Spider people like Pavitr and Spider-UK. But none for indigenous communities, and NONE from countries that only existed in other universes. So, I created an indigenous character from Tawanti - a country that's located where Peru would be for us.

You can give a canon character a sibling, to explore how they'd interact with family. Give them a partner that acts totally different than their canon partner, write how that'd change the way they show love.

OC's make your original writing better, AND your fanfiction writing too. They can help you understand canon characters on a deeper level.

And sure, nobody likes your OC. NOW.

But every single character you write about, is someones OC. Every character you write about was once treated that way. Once upon a time, Dean Winchester was just some rando character in the pilot script of a show that hadn't picked up yet. Probably no one gave a fuck until CW picked it up.

The writers had to not only make him and develop him - they had to BELIEVE in him enough to pitch him to a TV show channel to make people care.

That's always the first step. Believing your character's story is worthy enough of being told and presenting it as such.

ESPECIALLY if your OC represents a demographic you don't see represented. Cause yes if there isn't any black women in canon then I'll Thanos this shit and do it myself.

Make OCs.

Write them. Draw them. Even if it's bad. Who the hell cares. Big Mouth is on Netflix with multiple seasons, have you seen that show?? 'Ugly' art is not a crime.

Make piccrews, fill out OCforms or take quiz's as them. Write little blurbs of them hanging with canon characters then post it in the tag.

You don't need a huge Spidersona sheet or a long long fic explaining their backstory. They can just be there.

MAKE OCs.

Make them to explore more in your fanfiction, make them so future you can write that novel or draw or that comic or sell those prints or whatever it is you plan to do.

Make it so your fanfiction AND original writing can grow stronger. It isn't just about notes and content and follows.

Make an OC. Make a Spidersona. Literally you have nothing to lose but your chains.

"Nobody cares-"

Oh they'll care when you pop out with that 6-book publishing deal. They'll care when you're designing big characters for movies. Cause that's how it happens. Watch.

ANYWAYSSSS if you made it this far I hope this inspired you to at least play around with the idea of OCs and Spidersonas in general.

Here's Hobie.

BYE.

If you want to make a sona and are kinda lost on where to start, lemme know!! Because I think they're amazing starting places for those who have never written or drawn before. Or if you have a sona but want to develop them further.

I haven't seen a guide to spidersonas and i wonder if that's something some people might want/need.

Seriously if I can even get one person into writing or drawing I'll be over the goddamn moon.

MAKE OCS PLEASE.

#I wanted to write a little post of positivity and it became a boatload #You gotta believe in yourself fam you got to #spiderman #atsv #spider man #marvel #spidersona #spidersonas #fanfic writing #fanfic #fanfiction #fanart #ocs #oc art #fic writing #writing advice #writing #art #fan art #oc x canon #f/o #self insert

[moving-to-dreamwinged]

selfshippers who aren’t comfortable sharing i love you ! be as possessive as you would like as long as you’re not hurting or harassing anyone; your f/o is yours and they know just how much you love them. you understand your relationship better than anyone, and if not sharing is what’s right for you, you shouldn’t feel guilty about taking comfort in that.

selfshippers who are comfortable sharing i love you ! you have so much love in your hearts and it’s a beautiful thing that youre open to forging friendships with others who have the same interests. i have so much respect for you and your f/o would just adore your kindness. keep doing what you’re doing and keep making this community a wonderful place to be.

bottom line , you are all wonderful and your selfship is valid no matter what <3

unless , of course, youre a proshipper ; go away i don’t support u .

#f/o #self ship #to be honest i fall into the first category unfortunately . but in a very niceys way i promise #not in a jealousy way really but in a I Get Sad And Feel Invalid way yk #i wish i could be better about that. sigh #self ship positivity #f/o positivity #selfshipping #selfshipper #self shipping community #self ship community #selfship community #f/o community #f/o comfort #f/o prompts #f/o x self insert #f/o x s/i #oc x canon

[strawberry-selfships]

friendly reminder to selfshippers that you don’t have to know everything about your f/o !! I understand the feeling that you have to prove your love by knowing all the lore but people don’t have to know everything about each other to be in love, so don’t pressure yourself to try and remember everything! your f/o loves you regardless of how many facts about them you remember, for being knowledgeable about them is not why they love you

(pr0sh1p dni)

#ok to rb #I hope someone else needs to hear this bc boy I sure do #strawberry patch #selfship #self ship #self shipping #selfshipping community #oc x canon #self shipping community #selfshipping #selfship positivity