Citations:selfcest

Noun: "(fandom slang, fiction) sexual activity with an alternate version of oneself"

 * 2012, Aja Romano, "Self-cest: 5 characters who get paired with themselves", The Daily Dot, 22 October 2012:
 * Perhaps because of these qualities, or perhaps because Avengers fandom really loves Tom Hiddleston, one of the most popular examples of “self-cest” involves shipping Loki with himself. There are hundreds of “Loki/Loki” fics on the Archive of Our Own (AO3), some of them featuring Lady Loki, some of them involving other characters. One or two even distinguish between the Loki of Norse mythology and the Loki of the Marvelverse.
 * 2013, Boo Patrick, "Selfcest", Manifesto (University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts), April 2013, page 8:
 * And this is is where selfcest comes in. For those unfamiliar with Adventure Time, it has two series: the main, phallogocentric one, Adventure Time, and another spin-off version, Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake, in which gender-flipped versions of the original characters are presented. Marceline spawns Marshall Lee, Jake turns into Cake, Finn becomes Fionna, Princess Bubblegum is chewed up and spat out as Prince Gumball… you get the picture. Enter Fanfiction, which causes them to hook up. Creepy, yes.
 * 2016, Jessica Bauwens-Sugimoto, "Queering Black Jack: A Look at How the Manga Industry Adapts to Changing Reader Demographics", Orientali Skastudier, Number 147 (2006), page 136:
 * It is not unusual for fanworks of parody BL (yaoi) to present the reader with a couple that consists of two versions of the same character; this kind of ‘self-cest’ (self-incest), or clone-cest, can be read as autoeroticism or narcissism.
 * 2019, Michelle W. Jones, "'There Should Be No Tolerance for Intolerance': Internal Antagonism in Online Fan Communities", thesis submitted Utah State University, page 54:
 * To some, however, self-cest is as uninteresting as incest, which helps to explain why the Sans x Frisk ship is so popular among fans.
 * 2021, Clarissa Spagnola & Kaleb O'Neil, "The Ugly Truth", The Hegemonocle (satirical magazine of Macalester College, St. Paul, MN), Spring 2021, page 14:
 * The me turned to face me. I stared deep into my own eyes. Ah, so this is how those selfcest fanfictions start.
 * 2021, Sabrina Barr, "Loki fans defend Marvel series over ‘queerbaiting’ claims as director says God of Mischief’s bisexuality won’t be explored further", Metro (UK), 2 July 2021:
 * Several Loki fans shared their horror over the idea of Loki and Sylvie getting together, as it would be an example of selfcest.
 * 2021, Palmer Haasch, "'Loki' reignited the internet's debate about 'selfcest,' or falling in love with a version of yourself, with its main relationship", Insider, 16 July 2021:
 * While the discourse is more complex than simply people being weirded out by selfcest, it's brought the trope into mainstream discussion in a way that repeats previous discourse online.
 * 2021, Navin Noronha, "Would You Fuck Yourself? Fans Talk About the TV Trope ‘Selfcest.’", Vice, July 27 2021:
 * Selfcest is an early 2000s concept popular among fanfiction writers and niche Tumblr accounts who wanted their favourite fictional characters to have sex with another version of themselves – be it a clone or a time-travelling counterpart.
 * 2021, Jason Guerrasio, "'Loki' showrunner talks 'selfcest,' curbing fan expectations, and how close we were to seeing Tom Hiddleston's character having sex with an alien", Insider, 28 July 2021:
 * "Were we sitting in the writers' room saying we hope people are talking about selfcest? No. We weren't," [Michael] Waldron said with a chuckle. "We told a story about a character falling for a variant of themselves. It's an interesting atypical type of story, and we knew that."
 * 2021, John Clark, "'Loki' Brings The Fun, Falls Short On Romance", The Observer (Notre Dame, Saint Mary's, & Holy Cross), 30 August 2021, page 5:
 * I really appreciate the novelty of introducing the concept of "selfcest," a term that refers to a romantic relationship between different versions or incarnations of the same character, something that often appears in sci-fi stories that deal with variants.
 * 2022, Erica Tempesta, "'Selfcest was not on my 2022 bingo card': The Time Traveler's Wife baffles viewers with 'wild' and 'disturbing' oral sex scene between the HBO show's protagonist and HIMSELF", The Daily Mail, 25 May 2022:
 * '"The Time Traveler's Wife” having selfcest was not on my 2022 bingo card,' another [Twitter] user commented.
 * 2022, Mey Rude, "15 Gay Marvel Ships the Stans Go Crazy For", Out, 18 August 2022:
 * Who doesn't love a little selfcest? MCU fans definitely do! These two identities [Marc Spector and Steven Grant] share a body, and trauma, what could bring two people closer together than that
 * 2022, Ziloi (trans. amixy), University of the Underworld, unnumbered page:
 * "That also explains why, as a narcissist, you would fall in love with a moron in such a short period of time. Simply put, what Cui Yue and you have is actually a case of 'self-cest.'”
 * 2022, Ziloi (trans. amixy), University of the Underworld, unnumbered page:
 * "That also explains why, as a narcissist, you would fall in love with a moron in such a short period of time. Simply put, what Cui Yue and you have is actually a case of 'self-cest.'”