This article is fantastically interesting 👀📚 'Fictosexuality, Fictoromance, & Fictophilia: A Qualitative Study of Love & Desire for Fictional Characters' I think this discussion is what a lot of young fans may confuse when arguing 'fiction affects reality' www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... 🧵 - ThreadSky

samaburime.bsky.social • 84 days ago

This article is fantastically interesting 👀📚

'Fictosexuality, Fictoromance, & Fictophilia: A Qualitative Study of Love & Desire for Fictional Characters'

I think this discussion is what a lot of young fans may confuse when arguing 'fiction affects reality'

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.575427/full#B50 🧵

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sleepyboi43.bsky.social•84 days ago

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sleepymarico.bsky.social•84 days ago

Definitely an interesting read. Bestie and I have lately encountered some toxic self-shippers/yumes. This pretty much sums it up. My bestie's a non-sharing self-shipper and I support her and my other self-ship friends because they're still "sober" about it. I'm more annoyed at self-shippers +

sleepymarico.bsky.social•84 days ago

who call other yumes and fans "fakes" and throwing serious accusations at them for not liking their favorite character the "correct" way.

boiler.bsky.social•84 days ago

This is a great article! Also, I think some form of morality OCD ties in with a lot of the anti stuff we see, likely combined/compounded on this if i had to guess

momo-kon.bsky.social•84 days ago

It takes a certain level of trust in one's senses and moral compass, to fully embrace fiction without the reassurance of what society deems "acceptable" to feel good about ourselves.

So yeah, morality OCD.

samaburime.bsky.social•84 days ago

yeah I've definitely seen that as a factor, including from people who had the issue themselves and opened up about it

momo-kon.bsky.social•84 days ago

That sounds like an interesting read. I can say that I was never able to reconcile my relationship with erotic elements in anime as a Muslim.

But since leaving the faith 5 years ago, I had a lot more room to sort out my relationship with morality and fiction without the boot of religious dogma.

snoodoodont.bsky.social•84 days ago

Hmm, interesting stuff there. I'll need to have a read of this full thing later, just bookmarked it. Cheers for sharing!

duskmantlevt.bsky.social•84 days ago

I mean, have you seen reality lately? It’s not great.

samaburime.bsky.social•84 days ago

lmao preaching to the choir

duskmantlevt.bsky.social•84 days ago

Haha right.

samaburime.bsky.social•84 days ago

TLDR;
infatuation with fictional characters has generally been seen as normal and unobtrusive for people who fully accept those characters as existing to be consumed. It becomes problematic when (the fan) cannot make this distinction or accept the reality a character's existence serves+

samaburime.bsky.social•84 days ago

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So (outside of the article) for people who have such deep feelings for characters as to treat them like real people /morally/, they may not be able to understand how others can be infatuated and even engage problematically with characters while being able to make that full separation from reality

acearohanda.bsky.social•84 days ago

it amazes me that you have people MARRYING miku that still respect others joy of her in whatever way that is for them, but then these fans who treat humans like shit bc they didnt like their fave in the right way.

samaburime.bsky.social•84 days ago

Those people who are like "You're not appreciating Raymond from Animal Crossing well enough and the environment you made doesn't suit him you should relinquish him to me because you can't be trusted with him" like he's a real animal sdfgklsdfg

acearohanda.bsky.social•84 days ago

like bro you can have him in your own game leave me alone 😂

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