where everyone puts a self insert character into their favourite media via fanfic and fanart?
and not “oh this person looks like me” LITERALLY YOU
actual non-canon-compliant, over the top, embarrassingly sincere pictures and writings about you, the fan, being dropped into your favourite shows and films and books (and not dying instantly)
because it used to be both a cringey sincere fanfic trope and a tongue in cheek comedic fanart trope and I kind of… miss that fun?
it’s fun.
let’s do it. I’m calling it now
JANUARY 2017 IS PUT YOURSELF IN THE STORY MONTH
*looks at available stories*
UHHMMMMM I AM NOT SURE THIS IS A GOOD IDEA
DO IT
Seriously this is such a good idea. It seems like fanfiction has so utterly curled up and died recently, I don’t know what’s up. Everyone is so embarrassed of looking bad because of the systematic shaming of anything resembling fun that nobody makes anything fun anymore. Don’t be scared of just inserting yourself into literally any universe and just tearing it up there. When you are having fun, so are the readers.
I wasn’t scared of the idea of being embarrassed, I was more worried about my self-inserted self immediately pissing everyone off and winding up in worse shape than Obi-Wan. I have to take enough ibuprofen a day and can’t get real pain meds as it is. 😀
Everyone should do this. For REASONS (that are mostly ‘because it’s fun’ and ‘why the fuck not’).
Steel Phoenix Studios 