Welcome!

After some long thinking; I decided I'm going to take a indefinite hiatus from the Self Ship Community.

This wasn't easy to do because I made so many friends over the years and I loved to see other people's self ships! Hence, I always asked if people in this community were interested in gushing to me about their self ships! (You might've remembered those "Gush to me about your F/Os!" from my past accounts)

The toxicity and drama in this community has gotten far out of hand. I get some of these things needed to be talked about, and I'm glad they're being talked about! But, the toxicity towards others needs to stop!! Bullying is never the answer!!!

I'll be making a new account since I know a lot of you guys followed me for self shipping reasons, that will be made in April. Until then, I'll be taking a break from Tumblr (somewhat, I'll be on Tumblr and be responding to messages and such, but I don't know if I'll be posting often)

I'll miss you guys very much, thank you for all the wonderful self shipping memories!!

Yeah... I'm glad you understand how I'm feeling @friendly-jasprr ...

It's so toxic to the point people are constantly making rants about each other...bullying each other... ect ect.

It's making me terrified of being in the community now... like I can't ever do ANYTHING without the constant paranoia biting at me...

I know a lot of people who are following are self shippers, hence I'm making this post in the first place.

I just...don't know what to do..

I don't know if this counts as a vent because I'm not really sad about it- but more confused about it!

For the past few weeks I'd say- I haven't felt any romantic feelings towards any of my Romantic F/Os- even when I tried to force myself with Tammy and Sasha from Animal Crossing and N from Pokemon (all three were short lived)

But at the same time I'm still uncomfortable with sharing them Romantically for some reason?

I'm really confused, is there some way I can spark back the relationships I had with my Romantic F/Os? Or should I just retire from Romantic self shipping and file those Romantic F/Os I had under Platonic or Queerplatonic?

Please help a shaymin out!

I just wanted to say this as someone who has an animal crossing villager F/O who is very important to me; it's important to remember that it's how the developers programmed them, and any romantic love you and an F/O may have transcends what the devs might program them to say sometimes. Hopefully my approach to this can give you some comfort, I wouldn't want you to feel like lines of dialogue such as this would invalidate your ships and such, I think many people who have F/O's that are or are similar to villagers can relate in this regard. Have a wonderful day <3

You're absolutely right! It could certainly still be romantic and I can still have romantic self ships with Animal Crossing characters!!! ;v;

Thank you for this kind message! It really made my day!!

I'm going to rethink Tammy and I's relationship before I jump back into romantic, but I'll forever keep this in mind for all the characters I meet in Animal Crossing (and other games too that have similar mechanics!!)

I took a breather and started fresh on my ACNH island! Welcome to Overgrowth Island! An island with...a rather mysterious story to it. But we'll come back to that when things settle.

I kept getting Tammy on my islands, so I now officially welcome her as a Romantic F/O!! I love you Tammy 💞 (will make a post in the future about her)

I've been getting really upset over Animal Crossing, and I think I figured out why.

I always choose the same themes, the same villagers, I don't explore as much as I should in an Animal Crossing game.

I reset my island because I really disliked the name of my last island, so I tried again with the name I often use for my minecraft worlds, Overgrowth!

Overgrowth will be an kingdom full of plant life (as the name suggests)!! I'm excited to start this island ^v^

My first villager is Tammy! I'm so happy I got her again since I had her on my last island! I...I think I'm in love with Tammy romantically but I'm not sure yet. Living life with her will be so amazing!!! >////<