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Jun 27, 2011 22:24

You have no idea how weird it is to see your friend's name in a review for a fanfic said friend wrote.

Until you realize it's a self-insert OC Labyrinth fic.

WHYYYYYYYYY.

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last_haven June 28 2011, 03:17:06 UTC
Oh.

Oh, my.

...well, they aren't hounding you to review, are they? Cause that would be the only thing to up the awkward levels.

My sincerest sympathies.

...out of curiosity, was it BAD self insert fic as well?

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modernlove_89 June 28 2011, 11:33:22 UTC
No, we just fav'd each other as authors back when we were both in high school together because she said she would beta for me (then bailed after the first paragraph of "Belief"), and I thought I'd revisit her stories.

Yes, it was bad. Very bad. I can't get past the second chapter. Want a link?? I need to share the agony.

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last_haven June 28 2011, 16:54:49 UTC
Ouch, now that sucks. I've had betas do that before and it's never amusing.

Damn. Part of me wants to see the shenanigans as they go down. The other part is screaming RUN FOR YOUR LIFE! Decisions, decisions...

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modernlove_89 June 30 2011, 12:23:57 UTC
See, that's what my brain did, but I figured "What the hell! I'll give it a shot!" I really need to start listening to my brain >.

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whirligigged June 28 2011, 09:31:46 UTC
D Y I N G.

One nice thing about getting into fanfic young is that you can lump all the embarrassment of OCs and self inserts and other badfic ideas with your other youthful indiscretions and blame it on the tumults of puberty or something. If I did that now, I would look back on it and be like, fuck, I was twenty, that's just awkward.

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modernlove_89 June 28 2011, 11:37:34 UTC
I haven't even committed to paper (er, word.doc) the oc's I'm planning for the future because I'm scared of an awkward/obvious mary-sue happening. I do not need that blood on my hands!

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OH MY GOD WHY WON'T THIS POST RIGHT murasakidoku July 3 2011, 05:20:50 UTC

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Re: OH MY GOD WHY WON'T THIS POST RIGHT modernlove_89 July 8 2011, 17:37:24 UTC
My friend posted a fanfic using an OC as the main character, who conveniently had the same name as her, and the other characters in the fic were horrible mangled. It was a very obvious self insert and I didn't make it very far in the fic.

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