

Karcist's Guide to all Self Ship Love
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Labels
Self-insert:
- The act of inserting oneself or an original character meant to represent the self into a piece of established media, often but not exclusively with the intent to pursue a relationship with one (or several) characters within said media.
Self-ship:
- The act of shipping oneself with a fictional character, similar to a canon x canon pairing. may be romantic, platonic, familial, or otherwise in nature.
Self-shipper:
- noun someone who engages in shipping themselves (or a self-representing OC) with a fictional character, whether romantic, platonic, familial or otherwise in nature.
夢女子 / Yumejoshi (dream girl)
- Japanese-originated term for a female or fem-aligned person who ships herself or an OC with a fictional character.
- ' Yumejoshi ' is an umbrella term that covers self inserts, original characters, reader insert, and reader insert content that may be romantic or platonic in nature.
- Note: Western-based communities developed the gender-neutral term 'yumejin,' though a more accurate alternative would be ' yumebito ' or ' yumehito ' (dream person).
- The male equivalent of a yumejoshi (dream girl) is 夢男子 / yumedanshi (dream boy)
リアコ / Riako:
- Originating from gyaru and idol fan spaces, a fem-aligned term that means ' real love '. Used to denote a person who views their love for their f/o the same as they would a real relationship.
- The gender-neutral and/or male-aligned equivalent of this term is がちこい / gachikoi.

Terminology
F/O:
- Fictional Other.
- An alternative to S/O (significant other)
- Note: While 'f/o' is often used for romantic or romantic-adjacent ships, this isn't always the case as many use the term for platonic, familial, and other dynamics as well.
Double(s):
- A term for a person who has the same romantic f/o as another.
* e.g Person A's f/o is Argenti. Person B's f/o is also Argenti. Person B is seen as a double.
NS/Non-sharing:
- Used to denote not wanting to associate with doubles whatsoever.
* e.g Person A's f/o is Argenti. Person A is NS and doesn't want doubles to interact.
Mirror-sharing:
- A person who matches the sharing status of their double(s). They are open to sharing with a sharing yume, and non-sharing with a non-sharing yume.
Sharing:
- A person who is okay with interactions from people who share the same f/o.

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