A friend of Toko’s who is sadly no longer with us got us to finally engage with the community last year, and it has been a great experience for all of us.
The self ship community, especially the proship selfship community is just a really fun space where we have found that people actually interact and engage with one another together in a shared space in a way that I pretty much thought had died out on livejoural or early Tumblr.
It makes it pretty easy to ignore the few jerks and assholes when there’s so much love around.
I wanna see your drabbles, anon!
Took me still some more time to finally get the courage but we finally did it. We got a blog and going to try being a loud shipper and talk with others.
Do you happen to have any tips for a beginner in the community of selfshipping?
Slowly working on trying to set up some lists of dates and get tags figured out but for now yo
/we were the anon
Hey hey! So glad you could join us! 😀
Some beginner tips:
Don’t be afraid to gush. Cringe is dead and we are all free
The more you interact with people off anon, the more they will interact with you.
People love responses to their self ship posting, and if you respond to people you likes self ship posts its more likely they’ll respond to yours
ask games are great for prompts and a great excuse to talk about your F/Os
practice reblog karma– if you reblog an ask game from someone, send them an ask from the list!
tag tag tag!
write F/O imagines. even if you don’t think your ideas are relatable, you will be surprised!
don’t be offended if someone does end up blocking you due to a shared F/O. Not everyone likes to share and that’s okay.
you can talk about your F/Os however you want. Some people talk about their F/Os with a low degree of separation, some keep blorbo at arms length.
Chris here. I blocked that person, which was what should have been done in the first place.
I’ll clean up the mess later, and yes, post the sources jack and Toko promised, but that person wasn’t going to listen and it’s unhealthy to let Jack and Toko get themselves all worked up over having their trauma dismissed.
I’m just gonna take back the front and let em calm down.
