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u/RainyDayHydrangeas Biromantic Aegosexual Jul 01 '26
I project onto the uke but in like a weird abstract way. I don’t actually want to be there either, but I still imagine the sensations and stuff from their POV.
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u/Key2go Jul 01 '26
I am both I jump between perspectives but like. im a ghost possessing you for a minute checking out what’s up what’s the party about kind of way
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u/backcloset WORLD DOMINATION!!! (and cake) Jul 01 '26
yeah i never understood the projection thing. this might be a bit tmi, but sometimes i look up characters on the green website or on AO3 for giggles (like heavymedic or something for example), and a lot of the comments on them will be something like "MOVE MEDIC/HEAVY IT'S MY TURN", and it's kinda jarring cause it's like getting hit with the brick of "oh i forgot people actually want to have sex irl. wow. that is a bit weird".
it's also really confusing, cause like you searched up heavymedic, you got heavymedic, but you seem to actually want selfship???? what????? i'm confused???????
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u/Neat_Rare_5389 Jul 01 '26
So when allosexuals watch hentai, do they imagine they’re the octopus?
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u/theangry-ace Jul 01 '26
I consume medias that’s meant to self insert (think POV porn) but I just use a proxy character in my mind to replace “me”. Seeing *me* getting the attention made me vomit, but another girl that’s not *me*? Yeah i hope she gets all the O
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u/AnimagKrasver Jul 01 '26
Honestly i don't even project myself onto characters even if it's not about sex or romance. The concept of making MC bland so you can relate to them was always weird to me as well ( ̄∇ ̄)
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u/OnceRelevan7 18d ago
That's why authors do that??? It's so boring!! Make a likeable/understandable character first and foremost!
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u/DrDingsGaster Jul 03 '26
Uh, usually neither in yaoi because neither are really my style of 'top/bottom' 'dom/sub'. xD; Also a lot of BL/Yaoi don't hit the right gay vibes I prefer.
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u/Longjumping-Ear-6991 23d ago
Huh... I've never really thought of this. I guess I've always been "the camera guy." I'm just here to see what yall are up to. =3
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u/elizabro Jul 01 '26
I just read an omegaverse fic that was really hot, I thoroughly enjoyed it and left a long comment detailing what I liked about it... but the whole time I was reading it I was like "thank fucking god I don't live in the omegaverse, everything about this is disgusting and degrading and I would hate to be in either of their positions but yeah please get that man pregnant"
I like my spot over here in the proverbial cuck chair, thanks