Glossary

Or: a translation manual for anyone who isn't fatally immersed in Tumblr, otaku culture, and/or my brain (why are you here??).

Favs . . . My favorite characters
Manifesto . . . The ABCs of My Character Type
Glossary . . . How I define my tags

Terms and Definitions

Boywife - A term that I'm using to refer to cute boys and/or men who I don't want to show committment to through actual selfshipping, but who I feel affectionate and/or demeaning towards. A step down from husband. See also: waifu

Complexes - Characters with one or more complexes. Can refer to a superiority complex, an inferiority complex, brother/sister complexes, etc.

Creature - A character who is not human and doesn't act the part. See also: rabid

Favorite - Current favorites.

Girlbully - A girl who is a bully. See also: wife

Husband - A male character who I selfship with.

OG - Short for original; the characters that have been with me since the beginning. I may not love them as much as I did at one point, but they're very special to me regardless.

Prettyboy - A male character who I find attractive without being actively attracted. Could mean I want to objectify him, could also mean I don't want to objectify him. A step down and to the side of boywife

Rabid - Characters who are unsocialized to the point of near-feralness. See also: creature

Respect - Along comes the rare character I might actually respect as a person if they were real.

Selfshipping - Shipping yourself with a character. See also: shipping

Shipping - short for "relationshipping". Refers to enjoying a romantic relationship between two characters, or "shipping" them together.

"I ship these brothers together."

Tragedy - Characters who are tragic to me. See also: tragicomedy

Tragicomedy - Characters whose stories are comedic and tragic to me. See also: tragedy

Tsundere - Cold on the outside, warm on the inside.

Whump - The process of putting a character through physical and/or mental torment. [1]

Wanting to whump your favorite characters may be a sign of affection.

Waifu - A term that I'm using to refer to cute girls and/or women who I don't want to show committment to through actual selfshipping, but who I feel affectionate and/or demeaning towards. A step down from wife. See also: boywife

Wife - A female character who I selfship with.