Line #0 Quotes/SelfInsertFic


1	->'''Sport:''' And let him have a son like me, who cooks for him. And let him be eleven years old like me, and let him have a mother who went away and has all the money, and let him grow up to be a ball player...\
2	'''Harriet:''' Nooo! Then you're not making it up. Don't you understand?
3	-->-- ''Literature/HarrietTheSpy''
4
5	->''An SI is a self-insert, yes. However if you write one right, by the end of the first chapter or so said SI would be, in fact, dead or dimensionally displaced and become an [[OriginalCharacter OC]].''
6	-->-- ''Fanfic/DejaVuNoJutsu''
7
8	->B is for Bridget
9	->Who's named for the author
10	->She could have been subtle
11	->But just didn't bother
12	->Yet somehow I doubt
13	->That the writer's a D-cup
14	->Or sings like an angel
15	->With nary a hiccup
16	->Or doesn't need glasses
17	->Or looks like a hottie
18	->Or ever will earn
19	->Her black belt in karate
20	--> ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2217444/1/ A Mary Sue Alphabet]]''
21
22	->Alright, my new bestest fictional friends...! Now we can go on all sorts of comical and vaguely homo-erotic adventures together!
23	-->-- '''Kevin''', ''[[http://kevinbolk.deviantart.com/art/Do-a-Bad-Deed-Daily-97962950?q=gallery%3Akevinbolk%2F5819317&qo=12#/d1lqdrl Part of Your World]]''
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25	-> -- reading someone's [[PerverseSexualLust romantic fantasy about their fictional character]] isn't fun. It makes me feel like a voyeur. This is one of the most blatant self-inserts I've seen for a while. I'd really rather not see it displayed in a public archive for my fandom.\
26	-- lol yeah well that goes without saying. I used to be a part of a fandom with a bnf that would write about herself, by her own name and everything, in a relationship with one of the characters. she'd also photoshop pictures of the two of them together. it was hilarious, but the porn made me major uncomfortable
27	--> [[http://fanficrants.livejournal.com/10420421.html?thread=336085445#t336085445 two fans]]
28
29	->Allow me to rant here: you should never base a character on yourself. It just sets you up for viewing the character as you, rather than as a tool with which to write a story, and then you become attached and don’t want to make anything bad happen to the character because that’s ''you'', and you also don’t want to show the character’s bad side because you’d like to present yourself in the best light, and before you know it you’ve turned your character into a [[{{MarySue}} Sue.]]
30	-->-- ''Blog/TheHalfWorld''
31
32	->''Jesus. Just have sex with your fictional character already and put me out of my misery.''
33	-->-- ''Blog/MarkReadsTwilight''
34
35	->"''The next thing you need to do is create your main character, and since it's important to {{write what you know}}, the main character will obviously be you, but while'' you ''are a repressed, socially retarded dullard who no one would ever honestly admit to liking, your author insertion character is a fantasy, so they will be a charismatic eccentric who is unconditionally loved by everyone, even while he's setting their dog on fire.''"
36	-->-- '''[[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]]''' [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/108-Webcomics on webcomics]]
37
38	->''Music/OneDirection Goes One Direction''
39	->''And That Direction Is Towards My Vagina''
40	->''Ideal Cast: One Direction and '''ME'''!!!''
41	-->-- '''[[StylisticSuck Wattpad Segment Fanfic]]''', ''WebAnimation/WelcomeTo [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR7uaIFVFiM&list=FL5A68Xz9vd9pNuUOTW6GeBw&index=3 Fanfiction.Net! (and Wattpad)]]''
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43	->Like, y'know like sometimes people write a fanfic and it's basically "Oh, hi, I am the [[AuthorAvatar author insert]], see how I am better than all the established characters? Hell yeah, that is me."
44	-->--LetsPlay/{{raocow}}
45
46	->'''Adelie:''' Your manuscript is about a "dark and troubled loner who meets a dragon, and the dragon is also a girl, and they go on adventures together and fall in love". That's just SelfInsert WishFulfillment.\
47	'''Pimply Guy:''' N-no it's not!\
48	'''Adelie:''' Then who's the dark and troubled loner supposed to be, huh?\
49	'''Pimply Guy:''' Oh GOD it is! Why hasn't anyone TOLD me my stories are like this?\
50	'''Adelie:''' They probably couldn't get past the pitch. I almost didn't. Listen, kid, people wanna read about interesting people, not you. If we were interesting we wouldn't have to be writers.
51	-->--''Webcomic/EnnuiGo'', "[[http://ennuigo.thecomicseries.com/comics/463 Critique]]
52
53	->''"Had I been on Pandora instead of Jake Sully, I would have done things differently. First of all, my legs work. Secondly, I would have seduced Princess Neytiri earlier on; it wouldn't take two hours of film for us to consummate. And thirdly, the movie would have had a good ending (the film's biggest flaw). Had I been among the Na'vi people, we would have gotten the unobtainium--all of it."''
54	-->-- '''''Series/TheOfficeUS''''', [[http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/dwights-blog/ Dwight's "Schrute Space" Blog]]
55
56	->'''Sarah:''' Some people make up their own stories with their favorite characters. It's called fanfiction.\
57	'''Medusa:''' I can do that? I can make a story where [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra Asami and Korra]] get married? And they adopt a little snake girl? And she's me! And I'm the new Avatar!

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