𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛

You don't have to force yourself to have romantic feelings or feel attraction towards that fictional character. You can just like them and think they're neat. You also don't have to explain why you're so fond of them

And please, don't feel bad for not liking them the same way others do. People feel and express their feelings in different ways, and every form of appreciation is valid. I'm sure that character is happy to receive your affection, even if it's entirely platonic

Hi, dreaming selfshippers! If you have seen this app, please do not download it if you're going to do selfshipping.

The reason for this is because it has stolen templates from other creators, as well as adding ai features and has a paywall too.

Here's some proof

For those who wanted to download it, please don't and support the real creators!

you go on dates, force yourselves to hold hands, to whisper 'i love you' in the middle of the night. you force yourselves past the unease that slowly settles and builds up in your hearts.

wouldn't it be nicer if the two of you just existed, and nothing else? no special occasions need to be had, no special words need to be said, no special feelings need to be felt.

Imagine your f/o telling you to close tumblr and study for your exams.

… seriously, go !! now, shoo !!

To continue our commitment to user safety and to comply with local laws, we will start using age groups to determine access to certain experiences.

People in Brazil or in the UK, who are 18 or older, will soon need to verify their age to change content label settings and view mature-labeled content. Until then, the settings will be locked to hide.

As a reminder, verification is handled by our age-assurance partner, k-ID. Tumblr won't have access to the information you submit, just the final age-verification result. Documents are deleted after confirmation, and facial scan data never leaves your device. 

"Documents are deleted after confirmation" is also, uh, not true (or at the very least deeply misleading as it implies instantaneous deletion and no data transfer).

k-ID and Tumblr hold the "is an adult" information only, seemingly, but k-ID outsources its verification to a plethora of third parties dependent on your location. I'm looking into one for the UK right now (VerifyMy Ltd) even though ive got no intention of ever giving my biometrics to use social media, and they pretty openly state in their short-form privacy policy overview that they will store your data "for a limited time in line with their policies" (though for verification methods like card they don't personally (haven't the spoons to check their third party payment processer's policy as well), and in certain US states they have to legally delete everything Immediately apparently). The storage window is 28 days for verified adults - which doesn't seem that long, except to anyone who's data was being help in that 28 day period when a breach inevitably happens.

They also. Share your data with third parties. To "improve the accuracy of their service" - which is pretty blatantly going to be training their AIs.

Also, from what I could find, k-ID haven't ended their partnership with ZenDesk - who's support system (specifically their third-party partners, because it's always the companies they outsource the outsourcing to), you might be aware, had an ENORMOUS data-breach associated with their work with Discord earlier this year. This information was being stored despite, on the front end, there being assurances that data was being immediately deleted and would only be on your device (which is true in the Genie Wording way - technically discord and k-ID didn't have that data - but not true at all in the spirit of the promise).

Anyway fuck this noise right to hell. I'm going to call this statement from Tumblr outright misleading - if they're going to make promises regarding the private policies of the nesting-doll of third party data processors k-ID sits upon, they should bloody well be held partly liable. Cos you are certainly never given transparent information about the layers of data handling, storage and third party processing within these systems.

this is how it feels like to self ship sometimes

Someone’s sharing status with their f/os does not determine how serious they are about them.

I feel like there’s this assumption in the Selfship community that sharing = less serious and nonsharing = more serious, and that’s just… not entirely true. I’ve seen people who share and are incredibly dedicated and emotionally invested in their f/os, and I’ve also seen people who are nonsharing but treat selfshipping more casually, like a hobby rather than something deeper like fictosexuality and etc.

Everyone approaches their sharing status and what it means differently, and that doesn’t make one way “better” or more valid than another. Also some Selfshippers share as a way to cope with doubles too, so keep that in mind as well!

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How to selfship

Like a fictional character

Imagine scenarios with them

Congratulations, you are a selfshipper!