Mikaykay1229 - 💖

This is your reminder to let yourself be absolutely 100% cringe with your selfships if it makes you happy! I've seen so many folks worrying about it lately, and I can understand why you might feel that way. But truly, there is nothing quite so freeing as realizing that your cringe is something that other people might love too - and this is coming from someone who used to feel the exact same way when I started selfshipping! So go ahead!! Draw your f/o as a furry if you want to! Write that coffeeshop au that's been brewing in the back of your mind! Take photos of yourself with your f/o's plushie/figure if you have one! Make your self insert a shamelessly overpowered beast of a protagonist if you so desire! Do what you like, and have fun expressing yourself with your f/os because there are others out there who will see you and want to get involved with your creations, too!

Finding a new favorite fictional character is like, will you be temporary or will you become a permanent part of my personality for the next 10 years?

hot take:

crushing on/hyperfixating on fictional characters is a form of self-love. imagining yourself in scenarios, be romantic or platonic, with a fictional character is self-love. i've strugged since 2018 with depression and self-esteem issues, and the best way to remedy that is to be kinder to yourself, right? however, there's no one way to be kinder to yourself. but if your imagination can bring a character to life and tell you how hard youre working or amazing/beautiful you are, its basically you coming up with a conversation in which you're reassuring yourself what you want to hear. <3

what matters most about your interests is that they make you happy. whether other people find them productive is irrelevant. you don't have to produce anything. you are not a machine. your interests aren't for others. your interests are for you. do what makes you happy.