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⌈ Secret Post #5442 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, OP.

[(Anonymous)]

That's weird, because I've never really noticed this genre until a few years back, and I've been in fandom since 1997.

Are you referring to OC Mary Sues or this exactly?

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. It seems lazy.

Like, put a knife in there if it's a murder or something. These blob covers are lazy.

I'm sure they'll go out of fashion soon, like the "hands on the cover" ones did.

[(Anonymous)]

I literally don't read or write self-insert fic but there's lots of kinds of fanfic I don't read or write, and that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with any of them. I hope that you have fun with doing this sort of thing if that's what you want to do, though!

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of 'zines flat out banned SI submissions, but a lot of them turned up on usenet and then the pre-geocities internet when people had to hardcode their own websites.

[(Anonymous)]

They'll go out of fashion but something else will come in fashion and every book released will have that kind of cover instead. It's so exhausting. It makes all the books feel pointless and dull and repetitive.

[(Anonymous)]

...did a self-insert hurt you in some way, nonnie? That's a whole lot of anger you're harbouring for something so harmless.

[(Anonymous)]

No, Mandalorian just has a ton of /reader fic. I think a ton of it has to do with the fact there was no one to really ship Mando with in the first season except Omera. Once a fandom/character becomes popular with a /reader ship, it will stay fairly popular. It helps that the character is a "tough guy with a heart of gold" trying to raise a kid. I expect a ton of writers want to be the person who will change his life.

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen self-insert fic ever since I first started poking around fandoms about 20 years ago, but I think 2 factors go into it 1. young fans simply being attached to a character and 2. no one to really ship the focus-character with.

I've not watched the show but the impression I get is that there isn't really anyone to ship The lead with? So it doesn't surprise me that this fandom has a lot of OC/Mando fic, I'd expect that looking from the outside-in.

[(Anonymous)]

>And correct me if I'm wrong but it seems like there's also not a lot of natural canon ships for the character?

Season 1 had a potential canon ship but it was M/F. Fandom is rarely as rabid about a M/F ship as they would be a M/M. Season 2 had several potential M/M ships with Mando (one of which basically exploded overnight).

[(Anonymous)]

Did you literally just time-travel here from the Protectors of the Plot Continuum comm around 2004? Both the level of vitriol and the use of "buttmonkey" feel extremely mid-00s to me.

[(Anonymous)]

Srsly. I'm not fond of self insert fics, but I don't lie awake at night thinking that it is out there. That people get so uptight about this just makes me laugh.

[(Anonymous)]

I always find it so strange how angry people get that some other people on the internet make up a character to ship with a canon-one. It literally hurts no one, but by all means act like people having fun is some kind of issue.

[(Anonymous)]

They're obviously trolling.

nayrt

[(Anonymous)]

But I can't stand reader fic because it is often hard to filter out since they use dumbass tags like "Y/N" instead of "reader".

[(Anonymous)]

I wish that a certain demographic of fans were capable of looking at fanfic writing without feeling like they were obligated to ship. You don't have to do shipping to be a fanfic writer. I think the loss of big fanhubs have contributed to that though. There is nowhere really to gether and bounce ideas around, nor anyone organizing fan writing contests, so it all just spirals inwards.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel you, OP. I pretty much quit The Mandalorian as a fic-reading fandom for that same reason.

[meadowphoenix]

I honestly think that it's because the Mandolarian feels like a show in search of secondary main, so that encourages people to make who want a romance to make it self-insert.

But there are more character/reader fics everywhere

[(Anonymous)]

This.

[(Anonymous)]

buttmonkey is nineties slang amiga

[(Anonymous)]

So are you, calling troll on everything was our drama two weeks ago. Lets not do it again, it was boring enough first time around.

[feotakahari]

I have seen a LOT of recs from trans people who felt Detransition, Baby represented their own social experiences.

[(Anonymous)]

They are at least better than woman's torso with a weapon, skinny brown leather pants and crop top, with a murky background, but with the model's head out of frame. That was a grim trend, that one. At least these have some damn color in them. For the love of god, publishers, please start hiring old fashioned water color cover artists again.

[kaijinscendre]

I check fics for The Mandalorian like once a week or so, but I also have all these excluded. And I still see some reader fics. :/

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously? Come on.