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Word.

I have a good guideline as to how to tell if an OC is a self-insert sue. Its that there is an OC in it.

Also it'll be written in present tense. There is no clearer indication that something is going to be sue-tastic insert than a present tense, first person, narration. We all know what book they are, with total lack of imagination, channelling - or more harshly, aping.

Er, pardon? I have no clue what book you're talking about.

Personally, I think the biggest clue is when the description doesn't give any indication why an OC would be needed. In the most extreme cases, all the description does is name the OC and call him an OC, without giving any description at all. (That's usually accompanied by referring to a canon character as his wife or girlfriend.)

Maybe Hunger Games? That was written in present tense, wasn't it?

Because only one book ever in the history of writing contained present tense, first person narration. Also, only one book ever in the history of writing contained an author self-insert.

However the book in question *is* currently the one that has most recently rampaged like a Rhino on Redbull across the cultural consciousness. You can say "well maybe it was something more obscure that influenced them", but then William of Occam is just going to tell you to go and get a shave.

I can think of three first person, present-tense books that are currently very popular and very culturally relevant, two of which are attached to movies that have recently been in theaters and one of which has a movie currently in production.

So, the point stands.

Of course you can, because if you couldn't pull something out your ass then you'd have to concede your point. There has only been one mega-monster that has caused a huge cultural impact. It is Fifty-Shades all the way.

The Hunger Games hasn't had a huge cultural impact? I'd concede on Divergent, but it's still big and relevant atm.

Wait, are you talking about Twilight? From your avatar, I assumes you were in the MLP fandom, but I have never read an MLP badfic that had Twilight as an apparent influence. (In MLP, their closest influence actually seems to be James Bond.)

I'll be honest, while I have no hate for MLP and think that it is okay, I just googled "goofy face" and set the image search to avatar sized. This was the first one that came up.

Twilight is past tense.

"I have a good guideline as to how to tell if an OC is a self-insert sue. Its that there is an OC in it. "

If your "bad OC radar" goes off at every OC it sees, I can't take it too seriously.

Just saying. Would you trust a smoke alarm that went off at every breeze or vapor that passed it?

Edited 2014-07-04 03:24 (UTC)

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