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⌈ Secret Post #3805 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

"Character/OC" doesn't always mean "Character/self-insert." I don't assume a background pairing with an OC is necessarilly self-insert. Also, I've read lots of fics that ship A/B but temporarilly pair off A or B with an OC so the other one can get jealous and admit their feelings.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT and yes you're right but that kind of ambiguity and complexity is actually exactly what makes it so hard to filter for self-insert fics. So it goes back to the same point

[(Anonymous)]

ayrr

I completely agree, but I guess I feel that filtering out all OCs means potentially missing out on a lot of good fic with completely harmless, non-self-insert, often mostly background OCs. Personally, I'm willing to risk having to backbutton out of a fic, assuming there weren't other warning signs to turn me away first.

This is where having a way to distinguish background pairings from main pairings would help. Otherwise, there's no way to seperate self-insert OCs since it would be on the honor system and where you draw the line between "proxy for me" and "character with a lot of me in them" is uncertain.

[(Anonymous)]

I have no problem with that but I think the problem is it's impossible to filter the OC tag out for when they are in the background or the main character.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, like I said to the other anon, I agree, but I'd rather weed out terrible self-inserts on a case-by-case basis than eliminate everything with "OC" in a tag.