[ SECRET POST #6031 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #6031 ⌋

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


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Comments

[case]

Name the fandom. And repeats, etc.

(If you think something in this thread is a troll, please ignore it! Conversation is fine, but OT wank makes stuff harder to keep track of in this thread. Thanks.)

[(Anonymous)]

No update tonight, 13/July?

[philstar22]

I hope you are okay, Case. Thanks for all you do for us.

[(Anonymous)]

We hope you are well. Please take care.

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[(Anonymous)]

I'm currently writing one as a vent fic because I can't afford therapy.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with two-thirds this. Self-inserts aren't necessarily cringe in and of themselves, they only get cringe when they're taken to the hypercompetent lengths that you describe - it's the difference between making the character the author and making the character a character.

[pantswarrior]

...Hahah this reminds me of waaay back in the day when someone encouraged me to write a self-insert fic with Sephiroth. I basically had him isekai-d into the real world and well, he showed up on my doorstep, so what was I supposed to do? But then it started getting messy when, uh, he still wanted to destroy humanity, and it wasn't like I had any way to stop him...

...I never figured out how to end that story. And never tried to write another self-insert.

[meadowphoenix]

I think I disagree in that I think self-inserts work really well when the self-insert is bringing outside-canon thinking to canon. those are quite fun because some canons are like high concept where common sense is sacrificed for the vibe, and its just funny to see what happens to characters when you reintroduce street smarts.

[(Anonymous)]

I kind of agree, they are the most fun to write and read as well! I also embrace cringe unapologetically.

[(Anonymous)]

Really can't agree. I am so tired of story protagonists being mediocre in nearly every way, because there's all this criticism of competence. Give me more of Sebastian from Kuroshitsuji. Even at that extreme, I love the type, and have since I first laid eyes on it.

If fanfic climbed the heights of badass characterization tons more than it already tries, I would be so there for that. And being phenomenal is a good look on all kinds of characters - it seems pretty awful to claim people should deprive their self-inserts of the chance to be this, when it can be so fun to write.

Also, I've met people who have a horribly hard time saying even one nice thing about themselves, without burying it in ten disparaging ones. That seems like much more of a tragedy than the possibility that some fanfic writer might imagine themselves as cool. In any make-believe reality, anywhere.

[(Anonymous)]

But some of the appeal for some people is the power fantasy placed upon the self-insert. And that doesn't always have to come with self-awareness of it being cringe. Of course, too much of the power fantasy can warp one's own view of the world.

But while it's only in fanfics, I am more willing to give self-insert fics room to be whatever it wants to be rather than find ways to enjoy it "better".

[fleurviolette]

Personally I don’t get self insert fics or reader fics, so I don’t read them. I find the concept pretty weird, like breaking the fourth wall. I’m here to read about my favorite characters getting into situations, not inserting myself into the narrative.

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[(Anonymous)]

I LOLed at your excellent image choices. I'd love to know more about the context and what about the comments bother you, unless it'd raise your blood pressure.

[dani_phantasma]

Tbh I started to avoid the comments for different reasons. Sone of the regulars would occasionally rub me the wrong way . But it's been so long I can't remember what comments did it but oh well.

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[(Anonymous)]

I love when I find good fic in a new fandom!

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[(Anonymous)]

Its still going in the fandoms I'm in.

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[(Anonymous)]

I’m still a Havoc person through and through, with Hawkeye being a close second. But Hohenheim is a good choice too, as well as the others you listed. But since I don’t look up fic for Hohenheim I can’t tell you if there’s much fic for him. Sorry nonny :(

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[(Anonymous)]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Not Gen-X but I'm triggered as hell chummer. And I'll trigger straight at that Johnson.)

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[(Anonymous)]

I have resorted to going back to ffnet and jebus, its been so long since I've been on there and so much has changed. So glad I have adblocker but a lack of fics for my current fandom is not great - BUT I am looking through the Naruto fics now.

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