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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2025-08-11 06:19 pm

[ SECRET POST #6793 ]


⌈ Secret Post #6793 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2025-08-11 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Both? In western fandoms (as I've seen) use SI to describe fics where (example) Queen Elizabeth is SI into Sansa Stark. That is what I've always seem them called in my fandoms.

Re: OP

(Anonymous) 2025-08-11 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
If it's Queen Elizabeth, that's not a self-insert....

Re: OP

(Anonymous) 2025-08-11 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Unless Queen Elizabeth wrote it.

Re: OP

(Anonymous) 2025-08-11 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd suggest you tell your fandom they're doing it wrong and isekai is isekai (quite literally by definition) but I have a feeling you'd become a blacklisted pariah if you did that. So don't tell them, just laugh behind the screen. A self-insert can also be transported to another world, but not all isekai are a self-insert character, and vice versa - I feel like insinuating that by virtue of being a fictional world all self-inserting into a fictional setting is automatically isekai, but not all of fandom is interested in that level of pedantry.

and ftr "transported to another world" goes back as far as Mark Twain if not Homer. it predates the 20th century as a whole. it's really popular in Japanese media, absolutely true, but the massive upswing in popularity isn't equivalent to origination.

sa

(Anonymous) 2025-08-11 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
wow I accidentally some words in there; should be "I feel like some people might be insinuating..." because I don't agree with that take.