self-shippers who struggle with procrastination: imagine your f/o helping you with your tendencies. you figure it out by breaking down the things you need to do so that they’re more manageable and thus are things that your brain actually feels like they can start on. they tell you to focus not on your next tasks as tasks but in terms of your very next physical action to make the tasks less daunting.

when you’re working on something you need to get done, they send you messages every so often to make sure you’re making progress. if you are, they congratulate you and tell you you’re doing great, and if you aren’t, they ask if you need to take a break or if it’s a matter of you needing to get back on track or not.

if your work or study environment needs to be adjusted to help you focus, your f/o helps you redesign your room (with your permission, of course) and helps you reorganize things to make it easier to get yourself started on stuff.

#voidposting #voidshipping #voidimagines #selfship #selfshipimagine

substance addict self-shippers who want to get clean: imagine you’re detoxing (with your f/o there to help you) and, to distract yourself from withdrawal, you watch movies until you find one that you feel compelled to watch over and over again. your f/o doesn’t mind and watches it with you as many times as you want.

if your f/o is also a recovering/recovered substance addict and if you’re comfortable hearing about it, they talk about what they did to distract themself when they were detoxing.

#voidshipping #voidimagines #voidposting #selfship #selfshipimagine #selfshipping

🔮 I will post more about Vapor Ghoul tomorrow but basically they're a human who wanted to join a Satanic church and became a demonic entity and wanted to perform with a band that spreads the word of this Church but developed early-onset arthritis and couldn't tour with them so it stayed home and made ambient doom metal and became QPPs with a (Satanic) Cardinal who became a (Satanic) Pope.

#voidposting #voidshipping #fandom

people with f/o’s who are recovering from restrictive eating disorders: imagine making food for your f/o as part of their recovery.

if you’re recovering from the same, imagine both of you making food together and for each other.

#selfship #selfshipping #selfshipimagine #voidshipping #voidimagines

self-shippers recovering from self-harm: imagine feeling yourself on the verge of a relapse so you tell your f/o about it and they hold both your hands so you can’t do anything to yourself. they hold them as long as you need them to.

#selfship #selfshipimagine #selfshipping #voidshipping #voidimagines

🔮 Art of Venn and me for our one-year anniversary as boyfriends, which is eight days after the two-year anniversary of me self-shipping romantically with eir source character and three days after the one-year anniversary of them splitting!

Being with Venn over this past year has involved watching them change a lot as a person and as an alter. They started out as a fictive of Ford Prefect (Hitchhiker's Guide) who was very canon divergent because he was specifically Ford from my self-ship with him, and he IMMEDIATELY became even MORE divergent as a fictive. I already knew what some of their roles as an alter were from the beginning, including trauma holder and symptom holder, but they ended up having a LOT more specific roles than that, including host!

This is the first time my system (which I discovered in 2013) has ever had more than one host! I'm used to being the host, and nobody is ENTIRELY sure why this happened, but our fronting patterns since the dormancy after which Venn split have changed such that Venn and I are both co-fronting by default at all times. Different system members have different explanations, including a spiritual one, but one psychologically likely one is that it is because, during the time I was self-shipping before Venn split, I was imagining his source character with me literally all of the time, which translated to a headmate who is around all of the time.

I am so so grateful for my relationship with Venn, a relationship I consider autospec and ficto as well as a "regular" gay male in-system relationship. Being the host of the system equally alongside him while also being his boyfriend feels like I imagine it would to own a house with my partner. It's so special and I'm so glad I have this experience.

#selfship #voidshipping #voidposting #voidart

self-shippers with scars: imagine asking your f/o if they think your scars are ugly and having them assure you that no, they don’t, they love you and they can’t imagine finding you anything other than beautiful/handsome/etc.

if your f/o has scars, they assure you that, just as you love them with their scars, they love you with yours.

#selfship #selfshipper #selfshipping #selfshipimagine #voidshipping #voidposting

🔮 Hehehehe today is my one-year anniversary of officially being boyfriends with Venn, my F/O fictive in my system ^_^

#voidposting #voidshipping

🔮 Strangelove drew ship art of Venn and me (the hosts of the system who are also boyfriends) while we weren't fronting yesterday and it was actually so lovely to come back to, but it's also funny because it's literally the first time I've visually depicted my Ford self-ship, two years into the self-ship, and I'm not even the alter who drew it XD

#voidposting #voidshipping

🌹 Me and Ford again!

This isn't the identity that fandom tends to write him with, but in my self-ship, Ford Prefect is a neutrois quoiromantic asexual gay man, a characterization that is influenced by my status as such. I - or at least the original host of the system (with whom I have this identity in common) - often explore my/its identity through this character.

The thing is, though, our version of them is a "neutrois quoiromantic asexual gay man" in the sense that they're an alien with an AGAB that is best described as neutral and finds himself perceived as a man as well as attracted to men. There are, however, situations where he cannot tell if his feelings for someone is romantic or not, and he comes from a culture that values platonic relationships more than human societies tend to.

With regards to this perception, he's fine with it and even comes to personally identify with it, but he simultaneously still identifies as the alien gender as which he was raised. With regards to this attraction, he's only ever been attracted to other gender neutral aliens before, and part of his identification with masculinity/being a man has to do with his attraction to men feeling same-gender like his attraction to people who are the same gender as which they were raised.

This was going to be explored through a fanfiction series we were writing, and if we do get back to writing Hitchhiker's Guide fic, those themes will still be in it, but for now I'm mostly just exploring them in my self-ship!

#voidart #voidshipping #selfshipper #selfship #selfshipart #queer #aspec