[ SECRET POST #5141 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5141 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 27 secrets from Secret Submission Post #736.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[meadowphoenix]

I mean.......the play my fair lady takes pygmalion and says exactly that about the creator, lmao, which was 1913 so you're not correct OP.

but i actually think you see it less because male authors tend not to make their self-insert girlfriends the protagonist. when they do, I always hear jokes about how the author just wrote someone to wank to.

[(Anonymous)]

My Fair Lady is the musical and Pygmalion is the play, but yes, that's the year of the play.

Producers really fought George Bernard Shaw on the play, because they said audiences wanted a happy ending (the creator and the lady, together) and he was like, nah, that sucks, bro.

At any rate, it's completely understandable that a writer would "fall in love with" a character they create out of whole cloth, if they want the reader to fall in love with them too. This doesn't hurt anybody and the character's fictional.

[meadowphoenix]

Ooh, thanks for the correction!

Sure, as a personal idea yeah, who cares how an author feels about their characters. There are tons of authors who've published nothing who fall in love with their characters and its clearly not causing any social instability.

But a) people do mock majorly published authors who are in love with their characters in obvious narrative way regardless of gender, which is what the secret is about and b) the nature of major publishing, which requires quite a bit of institutional support, means that it's indicative about the way society functions regarding what depictions of women and men are allowed to be popular. And that is completely able to harm people.