#this is a different kind of self insert

[hansoeii]

The Doctor!

#casting ncuti gatwa as the doctor gotta be one of the greatest casting decisions ever #can't wait to deeply fall in love with him #also yes I did add my cat to yet another doctor who fanart #minka deserves to be the doctor's companion #I think we can all agree on that #this is a different kind of self insert #doctor who #15th doctor #doctor who fanart #15th doctor fanart #doctor who christmas special #ncuti gatwa #my art

[automatonkisser]

#selfship community #selfship #um idk what kind of tags people are using but i'd love to hear everyone thoughts <3 #i just think it's very interesting to see the different ways each of us relate to our self-inserts and interact w selfshipping in general!!

[gyllenekamuy]

Ref sheet for my gk oc Astrid! More info about her under the cut

Astrid was born in 1881 in Finland, to a finnish hunter and his swedish wife. Her life was anything but easy during the first few years of her life, where her family struggled with poverty and poor health. They eventually moved to her mother's hometown in sweden in search of better opportunities. She never truly liked her new home in the town, and she'd prefer to go on hunting trips with her dad in the woods. As a young teen, she decided to go back to Finland and live with a distant relative, but was surprised when the relative took her to Russia instead. (Still haven't figured out why, or how they traveled through Russia, but they eventually ended up in Hokkaido)

While on the roads through Russia, she learned to disguise herself as a man, partly to keep herself safe but also because it was something she enjoyed doing. She'd often steal uniforms from soldiers to gain access to their resources/information/etc. Astrid would be considered very handsome while in disguise, and she'd often find other women flirting with her. She'd always be completely dumbfounded when this happened and either come off as standoffish or become a mumbling mess.

While in Hokkaido, she'd run into the 7th a few times, once going so far that she was taken and questioned by Tsurumi. She'd escape the encounter and eventually meet the Sugimoto group, who she teamed up with. During the travels, she'd write down the recipes for all the different foods she's taught about. Many would remind her of dishes from back home, and she'd teach the group about those. She'd use her disguise and hunting skills to help out the group.

#ok so she started out as my self insert kind of but now she's so far removed from me that all we share is our nationality and weird #relation to gender #I've played around with different partners for her but haven't settled for one yet mayyyybe sugimoto but idk #I'd like her to have a thing with ienaga maybe not full on relationship but yeah a thing #golden kamuy oc #gk oc #my art #astrid

[r3dships]

The urge to make my self-inserts look more like myself irl ( aka make them all fatter ) to feel better about my real physique while also wanting them to all be unique and easily distinguishable from each other is driving me crazy

#also part of me kind of wants to keep them as an idealized version of myself since it's kind of a fantasy thing #but at least in my case it comes off as a bit catfishy to make my self-inserts look totally different from how i do in real life #grrrrrr i hate my body but i want to start seeing it in a better light #♡ my posts #♡ venting

[coldgoldlazarus]

Self-inserts as in "This character is very clearly a combination of the author as they percieve themselves to be and the author as they wish they were" will always be superior to self-inserts as in "this character is not even a character but a grey faceless personality-less void of genericness for lonely dudes with regressive attitudes on women to project themselves on like the worst possible version of those theme park face-cutout standees"

#not a reblog #the only cases where I excuse the latter #are John Halo and Doctor Arknights #because they at least use the facelessness as a character trait #allowing them to be a self-insert yet still an actual character within the universe #until eventually developing past that self-insertability entirely #and just being a normal viewpoint character with their own background and stuff #sure the other kind of self insert is kinda cheesy as well #but in a different and more excusable way #because its something personal and unique #and thus usually interesting and compelling more often than not

[cookiepie111]

A pet peeve of mine is when people say " he wouldn't say/do that" cause honestly no one knows what this character would say or do with their loved ones, cause usually we don't see it/they don't have any. we'd hope, of course, they'd love them and treat them well. And people will say this cause in their media they're mean or fighting enemies. Yeah, I'd hope he wouldn't beat the hell of his partner. Yes, Miguel was bad to miles, but he doesn't like him. It seems unfair to use that as an example for how he would treat his partner

This isn't just limited to Miguel. This goes for so many characters. ( cough Call of duty and more)

#let people enjoy their self inserts #and fics #call of duty #miguel o'hara #rambling #i care about these kinds of kinds #y'all hate women or something #also some of you who say this give pick me energy im so different im not like other girls #simon riley #könig

[deus-ex-mona]

goodnight~~~~~~~~~~

#moment of thinking about otp (nghy) over; time to rotate manhwa characters (seyoung and sangjae) in my mind instead— #g o d. isekai manhwa are a different kind fr #i can’t believe they reverse isekaied character(s) out of [insert manhwa here] and bodyswapped the character(s) of [other manhwa here]— #and the way they prioritise their happy endings above all else is just!!!!!!!!! auaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #the way how they reset the timeline so that they don’t lose their fallen pals along the way is just!!!! so!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!! #and!!!! the characters who both go along with ✨a n d✨ go against the protagonists’s desires in pursuit of their own self-interests is just!! #characters who prioritise their self interests over romance and stuff my beloved <3333333 #aND!!!!! WHEN THE SIDE CHARACTERS GAIN AGENCY AND BECOME FULLY FLESHED CHARACTERS IN THEIR OWN RIGHT!!!!!!!! AAAUAAUAAAAAAAAAAA #//slams head into pillow// so much for ‘insanity over’ h u h . . . #im. too far gone over these two series i swear. g o d i need to reread them again bye

[gretagator]

Old™ OCs I haven't drawn since 2020....

#oc #ocs #original characters #art #artists on tumblr #digital art #this is kind of different from what i do usually mmm not sure what to think #drew some old ocs for some reason #i should do something with them someday. #the only ocs I've been making are fandom and then again I've been too lazy to actually draw them #i've had a bcs oc self insert thingie in my head for. two years and i'm not even sure what they woud look like lolz #then again it's just for cringe purposes #but still

[fatuifucker]

its been a day and i still am upset about that interaction with that person they literally didnt do anything wrong but i keep thinking about 4th grade me getting excited when someone likes the same thing as me only for me to not impress them and then i go back home crying and wondering why i have no friends

#surprisingly. i dont have many internet friends because most of my friendships with former mutuals are superficial! #and im tired of investing into friendships like those #other friendships just ended just because #and its just very hard for me personally to find friends on tumblr because im very particular about writing #i dont read fanfics anymore because some of them are really just people writing a short paragraph and slapping down several names on it #he'll fuck you until ur crying blah blah blah followed by a list of names from different fandoms like gtfo w that shit #other times its just not it to me ig #i hate a lot of my fics here i absolutely despise my most recent scara fic its so bad #and im not saying this to buy pity or wtv im very honest about this kind of thing #fuck like i cant do art #i dont fit in w the shippers because im particular about my ship tastes #i dont fit in w the self inserts because of that as well #like tf am iiii everyone around me has friends on tumblr and is doing great stuff here #ive been growing this blog for 3 years and have reached 3 thousand followers and it still feels like im alone #tw rant #tw vent

[sonicaspeed123]

I have to be there for the sonespio enjoyers all 3 of you. They scream-sing Jrock together they watch shonen anime together espio tries to get sonic to watch death note and he falls asleep immediately. They go outside and throw rocks at things and then at each other. Burden of being responsible older siblings when all they want to do is just be kids themselves. Feeling like they cant truly express feelings because they have to be strong and/or positive all the time. Can you IMAGINE the slumber party past-midnight talks these kids would have. Fuckin hell this is all mostly platonic still sorry i cant do romance anymore even when i try lmao

Espio 🤝 Sonic 🤝 Knuckles 🤝 Shadow

Immense sense of duty and responsibility

#i feel that shadow and espio would get along but in a much different way #sonic is the one who drives most of the things they do together yknow. he'll suggest stuff #but shadow and espio would both naturally retreat into themselves so theyd just kinda end up parallel existing like cats do. #rouge picks shadow up from the chaotix's apartment like 'how did things go' 'we didnt do anything it was wonderful' #sonic and espio are so. unlikely friendship you have in mid/high school that kind of changes your life but youre both awkward- #-kids who r still not comfortable with vulnerability so its just an unspoken Thing but no less significant. to me #sonespio #⚡️ #quinn.txt #they make fucking naruto OCs listen this is my vision espio draws them and theyre self inserts. espio makes comics about them #theyre named like. Swift and Shuriken. full-time badasses

[solitaireships]

Going all in trying to figure out how to make an l/ok self insert with consideration to my ethnicities and then seeing most people either give zero consideration to this being a universe largely based on Asian and Indigenous cultures or being white and just giving their self insert a vaguely Asian sounding name 😭 Trying to look up things related to race and ethnicity here was a mistake

#my posts #vent #and granted i probably wouldn’t even make a self insert for it #for a while bcs i want to rewatch the show first #but like. ough. it’s so annoying #how so many people don’t seem to consider like #cultures are important #yes atla/lok uses a kind of amalgamation of different cultures from asia #but they’re still based on asian and indigenous cultures #and it’s very annoying how white people seem to have no consideration for that

[forcedhesitation]

After my last post I decided to sit down and rank all the possible companion pairs. here is the tierlist, should you wish to fill it out yourself.

This is a "ship" chart, but it's important to clarify that I am interested in how the dynamic works overall, not just romantically. I am very invested in how the stories of different characters overlap, and how they could mesh together to change both people involved. so the more interesting I find an individual character, the more likely they are to be higher in the chart.

How interesting I find characters also usually translates to my desire (or lack thereof) to draw them. So my likeliness to draw a pairing is the scale I used to describe each tier, rather than a nebulous "S," "B", or "F." This way, I feel it is better understood exactly why each pair is placed where it is.

Once again, sorry to those who enjoy miss SH. I do not hate her, I just do not find her to be an especially compelling character. I like the voice acting for her, but I don't care for her design, and I feel any element of her story is simply better explored in those of other characters.

*Special Exception 1: I have to split this pair off specifically, because I've thoroughly disparaged it in the past, based on erroneous judgments of halsin's character. when I first played the game, I locked myself out of a lot of Act 2 dialogue with him, which meant I missed the parts of his character that I do find interesting. I will say, it does still deeply bother me how much of his character revolves around sating the sexual desire players might have for him. I also hate that, as far as I'm aware, he can only acknowledge the player's relationship with astarion in the context of having sex. But after spending an entire campaign playing the game correctly, trying to learn as much about halsin as I could, and thus romancing him, so that I could properly judge him, I have grown attached to my rewritten version of him. so I'm not so much fond of the star/halsin pair as it is in game, as I am of that dynamic in the context of corydalis' campaign.

*Special Exception 2: after what happened with halsin, I feel it would be unfair to judge how interesting I might find minthara's relationship with most of the other companions, given that I've not yet had the opportunity to recruit her. despite this, I can safely say that I have no interest in whatever would likely play out between her any of the men, bar gale. gale is the exception because I've seen snippets of dialogue between them. I do not necessarily think they'd work together romantically, but again, it's more that the potential dynamic between them is interesting to me, regardless of the type of relationship they have. also, I do not categorise all other minthy x male companion pairs as bad because I am of the belief that she is not bisexual. I have faith that this game would make an effort to show us that she was a different identity, were she, because it already does a great job of affirming every other companion's bisexuality outside their potential relationship to the player. what I do not have faith in, however, is that minthy has as beautifully written a story as lae'zel does, where she learns to abandon the cruel and bigoted beliefs her society indoctrinated her to have. not when origin companions like wyll & karlach still lack material, and not when halsin's writing is as inconsistent as it is. I do not think that either halsin or minthy have, or will ever have, fully fleshed out narratives.

if you've interesting commentary about a particular pairing that you like, that you feel I might benefit from reading, do feel free to share it! even if I dislike a pairing, I am usually willing to read someone's thoughts about why they do find it interesting, granted it's not like...something utterly foul. I just ask you keep any commentary you choose to share to companion/companion pairs or companion/companion pairs in the context of polyamory with a tav/durge. NPC romance is another conversation.

#bg3 #thoughts about media #sorry. I know this is wordy... but I think it's fairly concise considering I am typing all of this. #I feel my commentary is still shorter than that of many streamers I've seen do tierlists for whichever subject. #overall I am still less invested in companion/companion pairs than I am in creating an engaging dynamic between a companion/tav of mine. #sure it's considerably more work to produce a compelling companion/tav pairing. but I find it infinitely more satisfying to do. #and I must clarify. because it's imperative to understanding why I enjoy it more. that I do Not do self insert tavs of any kind. #I have nothing against the practice. even though I do not understand the appeal whatsoever because my enjoyment of something doesn't- #-necessitate my complete identification with a character in the narrative. I rather enjoy different characters for different reasons. #when I make a tav. I'm creating an... “informed response” to whichever companion I am having that tav romance. #I start with a purpose and flesh them out as I go. I rework them over and over and over. sometimes I even change who they will romance! #it's a whole process. might not be what others find fun. but it's what I find fun!

[nottefierr]

AZAHARA AGAINNNNNNN

this time in her tribal outfit :DDD

since she's originally from a tribe in Africa(Ethiopia)

and that's her name in her native tongue, Amharic, which is አዛሃራ ሳግዋ(yes its a real language)

#azahara sagwa #ethiopia #african #lizard mutant #rottmnt oc #rottmnt original character #self insert oc #did i post her traumatic backstory yet??? #its a bit sad #actually its very sad #:((((((((((((((((((( #amharic #አዛሃራ ሳግዋ #HAR HAR #y'all like my new artstyle too??? #i'm experimenting with different kinds currently #i got her outfit inspiration from moana's outfit! #she's not a pacific islander ofc lmao #hehe #traditiona art #traditional artwork #traditional drawing #nottes art #nottefierr

[mmikmmik2]

Okay, I have to assume that most other people missed that the Collector wasn’t demanding pizza bagels for himself, but instructing Odalia to make pizza bagels for the Owl Beast. Because I cannot be the only person who is way too amused by the mental image of King or Lilith curtly accepting “kiddy”/junk food meal service from Odalia. The insult upon injury for poor Eda and Lilith that the only hot meals they get are like, pizza bagels and dinosaur chicken nuggets and Happy Meals. Please someone help them, they’ve already suffered enough

#the owl house #insert boiling isles versions of dino chicken nuggets and Happy Meals there #the bag of birdseed for a bird of prey and pizza bagels for a bird of prey and an adult woman… #i think the collector was joking about having no idea what mortals eat but they are uh. clearly shaky on the details #i also think you can interpret this as a problem with theory of mind #iirc kids the age of the collector ‘should’ be at a developmental stage where they understand adults have different tastes #so the collector suggesting food that they seem to find interesting/that is an appealing ‘kiddy’ food #is another detail suggesting that for whatever reason the collector has trouble grasping what other people might want #to an extent that is unusual for a kid of their apparent age + at their level of language and reasoning ability #i don’t think it’s just him being too self-centered to think about it #b/c he wants to get on eda and king’s good sides #I think he is pretty self-centered but this is also something he truly struggles with #(I do think pizza bagels are kind of juvenile and meant to suggest the collector being childish) #(but I eat them like once a week myself tbh) #(so like. no criticism intended for my fellow adult pizza bagels eaters. or dinosaur chicken nuggets or whatever.)

[bigdvmnhero]

more bad future timeline thoughts hhhhhh

one of my favorite bad future hcs is that future mikey and leo have a falling out in their 30-40s when donnie dies, but not just because 1) well... donnie's DEAD, or 2) it's like raph all over again, they promised it would never happen again but it IS; but particularly bc they're in a situation where the safety of the resistance is compromised and leo has to choose between donnie and hundreds of people

mikey begs leo not to let their brother die. leo chooses to be a leader

#rottmnt #my second hc is that donnie makes the choice for leo #bc he knew what living with that kind of guilt can do #(raph's death was nearly his undoing) #insert he self-destructs the lab or his shell or whatever #so leo doesn't have to do it #mikey doesn't know this #mikey thinks leo sacrificed their brother and leo won't correct him #why would he... what difference would it make.. #they're the only ones left now and no one's coming back #a.text #tw death mention #anyway i think this conflict is so compelling but even more #how they find their way back to each others' side 🥺 #i have so much thoughts but have this for today #corruption era mikey im looking so hard #he's just. PISSED and vengeful and he's also a god

[fruitsyrups]

I tried to type the word lives but accidentally said loves and then it autocorrected to lobes. What.

#fighting for their lobes #im oc brained again. ive decided that everyone is boring and im terrible #except for my special little girl. my self insert . my silly... my skrunkle... #but then what does it say about me if im incapable of creating characters who arent exactly like me. grahhh. #i dont have enough life experience... ... ... .... #most of the characters i like arent that much like me probably. like #idk. finn and jake and pb? i hate science and im not a little adventure boy sooo. its not that i dont have the capacity to like characters #who i dont 100% relate to. im just bad at thinking them up. yeah... #idk #all of my story ideas have turned into Not even anythint befquse im always like 'no that sucks i need to change it' #& the only one i consistently like is ironically somehow the one set in highschool even though thats so boring #and even thst doesnt have a plot #its just like 'girl gets invisibility powers and then meets this other girl & they do Espionage at another school in the area #not the one they go to. a different one. because theres some kind of conspiracy I Guess (dontknow what it is. no plot.) #and then theres another girl and shes like top student high achiever kind of uptight. and shes involved in clubs or something like that so #maybe one of her parents is a teacher or something idk. so shes there after school hours #and she gets roped into it somehow idk........ no plot!!! like the smallest weensiest little Start of a plot but no actual plot #ahhhhghhhhhhhhhhhhh. ahhhghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh