Line #73 Main/MostFanficWritersAreGirls


1	-> '''Candace:''' Will you guys read my fanfiction?\
2	'''ComicBook/SpiderMan:''' Sorry, we're not allowed to accept unsolicited material.
3	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbMissionMarvel''
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5	In fiction, only women write [[FanFic fan fiction]], and the majority of these are teenagers. In addition, their work tends to contain [[{{Pun}} boatloads]] of {{Shipping}}, IkeaErotica, and FemaleGaze.
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7	This trope has been in effect since well before the internet made it much easier to proliferate fanfic. Studies of early ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fanfiction showed as many as 90% of authors were female in the 1970s, even though at the time such stories could only be shared through fanzines or through sending self-addressed-stamped-envelopes to the authors and having them mail you a manuscript.
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9	Various theories abound as to why this trope has persisted so prominently, such as the idea that men prefer visual porn while women prefer written porn. Maybe it is simply that reading prose fiction is a more common pastime for women: [[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14175229 men account for only 20% of the fiction market,]] and similarly, [[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/27/us-study-finds-publishing-is-overwhelmingly-white-and-female nearly 80% of publishing industry staff are female.]] It's simply that [[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/feb/04/research-male-writers-dominate-books-world books written by men get far more media coverage,]] leading to the distorted perception that the industry is not as female-dominated as it actually is.
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11	This phenomenon has been subjected to academic analysis by ethnographer Camille Bacon-Smith and MIT's Henry Jenkins. Jenkins suggests in ''Textual Poachers'' that fanfiction is a reaction on the part of a female audience trying to find their own pleasures [[GirlShowGhetto in media that caters mostly to]] [[MaleGaze men]].
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13	In real life, this trope is why the supposedly "neutral" protagonist of many ReaderInsertFics is usually a girl, or at least coded female.
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15	See also {{Shipping}}, SlashFic, CastFullOfGay, EstrogenBrigade, and HetIsEw. Compare MostWritersAreMale and MostTropersAreYoungNerds. Combine with TheInternetIsForPorn to get AllWomenAreLustful.
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17	Faced with the trope ThereAreNoGirlsOnTheInternet, this leads to the absurd conclusion that the massive numbers of Internet fanfic writers are all male, and are but a small minority of all fanfic writers. Either that, or [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil they aren't the true authors of the fanfics they post]].
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19	'''Only examples where a character ''in the work'' writes a fanfic are to be added.''' Parodies and deconstructions should not be added.
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25	!!Examples
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29	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
30	* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': Haruna draws her own {{Doujinshi}} which is based on ''[[ShowWithinAShow Mahou Shoujo Biblion]]'' and sells her works at Comiket.
31	* ''Manga/{{Genshiken}}'': Ogiue also draws {{Yaoi}} {{Doujinshi}}, much to the great trouble of her Editor boyfriend who is...not a fan. Well, Sasahara gets the appeal of yaoi to her... it's just more than a little awkward when she draws him and ships him with one of his best friends. Other than being featured himself, he's surprisingly accepting.
32	* [[PunnyName Harumi Fujiyoshi]] of ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' draws {{Doujinshi}} as well -- one of them about her Teacher [[Creator/HiroshiKamiya Itoshiki-sensei]]. As well as a pairing of Apple × Pine when everyone else likes [[{{Pun}} Pine × Apple]] (the characters in question are {{exp\|y}}ies of [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Coco and Nuts]]). In the third series she is seen drawing a {{Doujinshi}} starring ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'''s [[ActorAllusion Tieria]] (also voiced by Creator/HiroshiKamiya).
33	* ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' had an entire [=OVA=] episode devoted to a character who writes in-universe slash fanfics about the protagonist.
34	* Nobuko Yokokawa of ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' writes stories loosely based on her friends and classmates with her best friend Aiko she idolizes as the protagonist in most of them. Later joined by the shy artist girl Miho Maruyama, who starts creating similar comics with her. With their stories involving romantic plots with their own self-insert characters along with Aiko's, it results in awkwardly heavy doses of LesYay for a kids' anime.
35	* Hikaru Amano of ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'' portrays this in the English dub. She writes SelfInsert SlashFics.
36	* Erika from ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'' openly discusses writing SlashFics about her friends. She also ships [[FoeYayShipping Izaya/Shizuo]].
37	* Tsuruko, a CanonForeigner in ''Literature/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'''s second season, wrote a {{Yaoi}} {{Doujinshi}} about the series' male lead, Mahiro Yasaka. Her #1 ambition is to meet him face-to-face, blissfully unaware that he was utterly pissed when he found out about the Doujin and in fact [[KillItWithFire bought a copy just to burn it]] (and keep it out of [[LovableSexManiac Nyarko's]] hands).
38	* Averted with Ban of ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'', who writes and draws doujinshi of the Cures. The episode we're introduced to him, he's stuck with WritersBlock over a scene involving Blossom, Marine and a guy who looks like a fusion of himself and Itsuki.
39	* Aya from ''Manga/StrawberryOneHundredPercent''. She is secretly writing a fantasy novel on her math notebook but lacks confidence of showing it. Junpei discovers the novel and encourages her to become a writer by sharing his dream of becoming a film maker, which he is also afraid to tell anyone.
40	* In ''Manga/YuruYuri'', what little seen of [[BlandNameProduct Comuket]] is run entirely by girls, though this may be a subset of the [[ChromosomeCasting all-girl world]] they live in.
41	* In ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'', resident ShipperOnDeck Karen draws her own doujinshi about Kaguya and Shirogane ([[EveryoneHasStandards though she draws the line at making it erotic, as she considers writing stories about people she knows having sex to be]] ''[[EveryoneHasStandards beyond]]'' [[EveryoneHasStandards creepy]]).
42	* Narumi from ''Manga/WotakoiLoveIsHardForOtaku'' draws BL doujinshi as a hobby, which she sells at Comiket to make cash on the side.
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45	[[folder:Comics]]
46	* The new ''[[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Ms. Marvel]]'', Kamala Khan is an avid fanfic writer and reader, mainly writing ''Avengers'' and ''X-Men'' fanfics, specifically, about the Avengers' adventures on "Planet Unicorn", and Wolverine's and Storm's in space (where they fight worm hole farting monsters for example). The trope is subverted in ''All-New All-Different Avengers Annual'', however; not only is the author of a fanfic shipping Ms. Marvel with her friends, Miles Morales Spider-Man and Sam Alexander Nova, actually [[spoiler:Miles himself]] but the admin Kamala contacts about it is [[spoiler:Phil Coulson]].
47	* Averted in ''[[ComicBook/LokiAgentOfAsgard Loki: Agent Of Asgard]]'' where Loki admits they write and publish fan fics online. Slash fan fics. Which are apparently "the most horrible slash upon the Internet". Can you say {{troll}}?
48	* And there is Nancy's best friend of ''ComicBook/TheUnbeatableSquirrelGirl''. Her speciality are ''Cat [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]]'' fics. Yes. Asking Thor if there are cats in Asgard is important research!
49	* If the 2016 ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentAvengers Annual'' is any indication the trope is ''averted'' for the Marvel universe as a whole. This annual has a framing story about two people who write, and (argue about) fanfic, one is the aforementioned Kamala Khan, the other [[ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan Miles Morales]], and also includes 5 in-universe "fics", 3 by male 2 by female real life writers, and at least 2 would probably be written by guys in-universe too (one has a self-insert, the other a "go back to the kitchen" attitude).
50	* In ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'', Emp not only reads yaoi slash fan fiction about her male teammates in the Superhomeys, but writes it as well.
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53	[[folder:Fan Works]]
54	* In ''Fanfic/SkyholdAcademyYearbook'', students Rory and Jim gain notoriety by shamelessly writing RealPersonFic about their teachers; Rory plays the trope straight, while Jim averts it. They even hand some of it in as writing assignments, which amuses their writing teacher - [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII Varric Tethras]] - to no end.
55	* Subverted in ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia''. Izuku admits to writing Toshinori fanfiction when he was younger. Practically all of it is embarrassingly bad embellishment of Toshinori's adventures or indulgent SelfInsertFic because of his Brokenness. In the non-canon sidestory, "Spectacular What?", the rest of Team MNVW comes across him writing a story on [[BlandNameProduct GalaxySkirmishes]] about a powerless boy who suddenly gained powers and became a hero. They all immediately accuse of him of writing another SelfInsertFic until he shows him his notes and outlines, which reveal that the title of his story is [[ComicBook/SpiderMan "The Spectacular Spider-Man"]].
56	* Fans like to give ''Anime/KemonoFriends''' Grey Wolf this personality, turning her ''kamishibai'' style comics into thinly-veiled shipping comics about her friends.
57	* In ''Fanfic/TheresNoOneLikeYou'', Luz writes ''The Good Witch Azura'' fanfiction. Early on, she mentions a hitwoman AU where Azura is an assassin. After seeing Amity, she decides to give Hecate green hair. This proves to be one of Luz and Amity's first positive interactions, eventually leading up to their romance.
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60	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
61	* In the {{Novelization}} of ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei and her (female) friends write a collaborative SelfInsertFic.
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64	[[folder:Literature]]
65	* This trope forms part of the main plot in Rainbow Rowell's YA novel ''Literature/{{Fangirl}}''.
66	* The main character in the AU Franchise/SherlockHolmes story "Parallels" by Jenni Hill (written for the AU Sherlock Holmes collection ''221 Baker Streets'') is a girl called Jane who writes Johnlock slash which is ''actually'' about her and her friend Charlotte, and has become "internet famous. A little bit."
67	* ''Literature/StrangerThanFanfiction'': Moriko "Mo" Ishikawa is a girl who likes to write stories centered around the Peachfuzzle ship (Dr. Bumfuzzlex x Dr. Peachtree). She plans to, upon becoming a legit writer, change the characters and publish the stories as her own.
68	* Due to time-travel shenanigans, the first human novel ever written in the ''Star Trek'' universe is a Captain Proton fanfic created by Lieutenant Veronica Fletcher of the starship Colombia, as per ''Literature/StarTrekDestiny''.
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71	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
72	* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' has an entire ''in-universe slash fandom'', implied to be primarily female, writing about the show's main characters. The show also features a female slash fic writer as a recurring character, with serious stalking tendency.
73	* In the season two ''Series/{{Psych}}'' episode with the case at the school for smart kids, one of the (male) students says to Shawn:
74	-->'''Student:''' Any leads? I'm adapting this into a ''Franchise/NancyDrew'' fanfic.
75	* Averted with ''Series/{{Glee}}''; Sandy openly admits to writing fanfiction.
76	* It's implied that Willow of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' used to write ''Series/DoogieHowserMD'' fanfic. (This is probably a ShoutOut to Creator/NeilPatrickHarris, the star of that show, who is a friend of Creator/JossWhedon. And [[HilariousInHindsight funnily enough, her eventual co-star]] on ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''.)
77	* In ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'', Clare starts writing fanfics based on a fictional vampire book series called Fortnight.
78	* In an episode of ''Series/{{Monk}}'', Monk's self-proclaimed biggest fan asks him why doesn't he use his gun during a case. When he tells her that he doesn't carry one, she remembers that she made that detail up in a fanfic she wrote about him.
79	* Averted in ''Series/{{Parks and Recreation}}''. Ben Wyatt is known to write Star Trek fanfic.
80	* In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', Amy is revealed to write ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'' fanfiction about [[SelfInsertFic a girl named Amelia]] who falls in love with a time-travelling physicist named Cooper. [[AvertedTrope Likewise]], is revealed that Sheldon used to write ''Star Trek'' fanfiction with him self-inserting with a GaryStu SelfInsertFic when he was a kid in order to escape his real problems.
81	* ''{{Series/Euphoria}}'': Kat's written a lot of fanfics on Tumblr, most of them explicit and NSFW.
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84	[[folder:Video Games]]
85	* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', Isabela writes "friend fiction". We only get to hear a bit featuring Aveline and Donnic but according to Isabela, she does it for everyone.
86	** However, she does it only as a fan of Varric, who is also a professional writer, who uses his friends as thinly veiled "inspirations" all the time.
87	* In ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy5'', Natalie tells the party that the reason she's hanging around with with them was because she got caught writing smutty fan fics of real people, much to her embarrassment, leading her to leave the university. She then says to herself that she just hides it better now.
88	* In the ''VideoGame/FableIII'' side quest, ''The Pen is Mightier'', one of the books is entitled ''The Pangs of Sunset''. It is essentially just an [[RomanceNovel erotic novel]] featuring the Heroes from the ''previous'' game. It is implied to contain both [[GuyOnGuyIsHot Slash]] and [[GirlOnGirlIsHot Femslash]] and is written by a woman named Ilona Pureheart.
89	* ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'': After rescuing Bretta from the Fungal Wastes, going inside her house reveals that she fell for the Knight and wrote multiple fanfics about them and the supposed "love" the two of them share. [[spoiler:If Zote returns from the Fool's Colosseum, she falls in love with Zote and writes fanfic about ''him'' instead.]]
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92	[[folder:Webcomics]]
93	* ''Garnet and Gure'' features [[http://www.bonedragoncomics.com/html/garnet_and_gure_60.html this strip]], wherein the largely female culture of fanfiction is explained.
94	* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' features two female fanfic writers, Tai and Marigold; Tai's stuff is apparently good (she writes a raved about Harry Potter piece), Marigold's, not so much. After a near miss where [[IncompatibleOrientation lesbian Tai hits on straight Marigold]], the latter seeks to make up for the awkwardness by posting a story to Tai wherein Hermione and Ginny "go all the way."
95	* Aeris from ''Webcomic/VGCats'' writes erotic fanfiction about [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Tidus and Auron]], has dreams about [[Franchise/StarFox Fox and Falco]], and likes the idea of a [[VideoGame/Left4Dead hot molotov throbbing in Bill's hand]].
96	* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
97	** Calliope admits to writing fanfic about the Alpha Kids.
98	** Vriska has a diary from her ancestor who she strives to emulate, the notorious pirate Marquise Spineret Mindfang, who writes in an overwrought, awkwardly sexual, fanfiction-like style. When we meet Mindfang's alternate universe self, she is a fanfic writer. We also discover Meulin, who writes 'friendfic' speculating on ships.
99	** And then there's "Complacency of the Learned", a wizard fan fiction by Rose Lalonde.
100	* ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'' features Grape Sandwich, a staunch member of the fandom for the in-universe Pridelands Series. Despite multiple characters being fans of the series, only she is ever noted as writing fanfiction, and repeatedly (good-naturedly) teased for it.
101	* ''Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}'':
102	** In ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'', Amber writes a WebSerialNovel that is a pastiche of ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga''.
103	** In ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'', she's at least implied to write shipfic.
104	* ''Webcomic/BlasterNation'': Rinnie is a female fanfiction writer, specialized in adult [[{{SlashFic}} Slash Fics]] mostly involving heroes from comics. And Franchise/{{Batman}}.
105	* [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle's]] [[http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/121968502899/pocket-princesses-152-meet-belle-please-reblog dark secret]] in ''Webcomic/PocketPrincesses'' is that she writes ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fan fics.
106	* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' has a short story in which a teenage girl alters the Heterodyne Boys story she's telling to her siblings to include an AuthorAvatar - her mother apparently did the same when she told the stories as a teenager. It's actually a defense of fanfiction and author inserts, based on the fact that the dreams they inspire in people are more important than accuracy.
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110	* Donut of ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' mentions writing some ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fanfiction but [[AmbiguouslyGay well...]]
111	* Gwen from ''Webanimation/CampCamp'' has writing {{filth}}y fics as a hobby. Subverted when she somehow meets two drug dealers who are part of her community.
112	* Tea is made this in [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Yu-gi-oh Abridged]].
113	** She writes Harry Potter fics, and ships Harry/Hedwig, in case you were curious.
114	* Similar to the Yu-gi-oh Abridged example, Twilight Sparkle is an avid fanfiction writer in ''WebVideo/FriendshipIsWitchcraft''... except she writes fanfic ''about her friends''. Creepy.
115	* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick is seen in a FlashBack apparently writing ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' slashfic.
116	* Most of the students at Fanfic/TheOfficialFanfictionUniversityOfMiddleEarth are female.
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119	[[folder:Western Animation]]
120	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Peter insists that Meg is going to write ''Series/UglyBetty'' fanfiction for a career.
121	* Tina from ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' has shelves dedicated to [[Rule34 erotic fanfiction]] she's written. (In fact, she's written so much of it she's moved onto erotic ''friend''fiction.)
122	-->'''Gene:''' Ooo! Do the janitor and the vice-principal! I think they'd have beautiful children.\
123	'''Tina:''' I did, and they don't.
124	* Candace from ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' writes superhero fanfiction, according to ''Mission Marvel''.
125	* The "Cabin Fever" episode of ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' has the male cast (and Sticks) stumbling upon Amy's play script "A Rose Without Thorns", with characters that are thinly-veiled expies of them.
126	* Karmi of ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'' writes fanfics about the titular superhero team.
127	* One of the people that Luz meets in the pilot episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' was a woman who liked writing romantic fanfiction about anthropomorphic food. Luz herself is also shown to have written fanfics about her favorite book series, ''The Good Witch Azura''.
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131	* [[http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2081784,00.html This]] ''Time'' article on fan fiction mentions this phenomenon.
132	* [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/24/fanfiction-deserves-more-respect An article]] by the ''Guardian'' also mentions this observation, linking directly to this very page.
133	* Statistically, there are more female doujinshi creators than male, even among the ones who make porn. Comiket has always had a massive female attendance (in fact, attendance of the first-ever Comiket held in 1975 was 80% female), and even some of the biggest names in eroge writing (ex: Tori, writer of the majority of the Rance series) are women.
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