30 Days of Fanfic

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Man, guys, I know I posted like, twenty times today, but I've been considering starting this meme for a few days now and likeadeuce was like, "I WOULD BE CURIOUS AS TO YOUR RESPONSES" which was, I guess, what I needed for my brain to kick over from "this would be self-indulgent" to "this would be self-indulgent but now I have an excuse."

Also, every time I

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Once I started writing stuff down, there was less self-insert? Or at least, I did it differently. In JQ fandom, there was this thing where we wrote like... behind-the-scenes stories about fic? Like, someone made up this fake teevee station where we all worked to make shows about the cast, and crazy things happened where we tormented Jonny and stuff like that. It was all really cracky and we knew it, but there was less Mary-Sue-ism, I guess? And then in Buffy fandom, I did some out-right self-insert that I would exchange with my middle school BFF. She was our Buffy and I was our Willow, so we wrote fic where I was Willow's cousin and she was Buffy's cousin and we came to visit Sunnydale for the summer, or one that I remember where all the Scoobies in our group switched places with the real Scoobies because of some spell. But even then I was self-aware enough that know that those were stories I could only share with her and our friends and not post to the archives and mailing lists I was a part of XD

To be totally honest, I still do the occasional self-insert, but in ways that are more subtle? I usually stick a character who essentially has "my" viewpoint into fics, but it's always in the background. I don't have any desire to be the star of the story, so frequently it's like, "the girl who works the coffee shop the characters frequent" or something like that. Blink-or-you'll-miss-it sort of shit.

But I will save further reminiscing about all of that for the day about OCs XD