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Re: is this a new trend, or older? Movie character/insert self or reader

[(Anonymous)]

I'm gonna say ... tumblr.

Re: is this a new trend, or older? Movie character/insert self or reader

[(Anonymous)]

Tumblr can be blamed for a lot of things, but self insert stories are older than the internet.

Re: is this a new trend, or older? Movie character/insert self or reader

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Re: is this a new trend, or older? Movie character/insert self or reader

[(Anonymous)]

Most trends in fandom pre-date tumblr. Tumblr is just full of newer fans who think they're creating something new.

Not everything can be blamed on tumblr.

Re: is this a new trend, or older? Movie character/insert self or reader

[(Anonymous)]

honestly, as long as those fen on tumblr are excited and cheerful and create stuff, i am happy for them.
no matter whether its new to them, or old news for old hats like myself :D

Re: is this a new trend, or older? Movie character/insert self or reader

[(Anonymous)]

True, not even pushing their private shitty sex fantasies on a section of their peers and calling it art is something Tumblr started, they're just extra entitled about it.

Re: is this a new trend, or older? Movie character/insert self or reader

[(Anonymous)]

you call it entitlement, they might think of it as empowerement.

Re: is this a new trend, or older? Movie character/insert self or reader

[(Anonymous)]

no

Re: is this a new trend, or older? Movie character/insert self or reader

[(Anonymous)]

Well of course they would.

Re: is this a new trend, or older? Movie character/insert self or reader

[(Anonymous)]

There were fandom archives long before Tumblr, where those stories were shared. Again, Tumblr has nothing to do with this.

In fact there are professional authors who have published self insert stories, long before Tumblr.

Re: is this a new trend, or older? Movie character/insert self or reader

[(Anonymous)]

+1

People just like to pin blame on tumblr for anything.

Re: is this a new trend, or older? Movie character/insert self or reader

[(Anonymous)]

It's just so blameable.

Re: is this a new trend, or older? Movie character/insert self or reader

[(Anonymous)]

i think so not. now that i have seen several answers, i think, i remember how that concept of "self insert/Reader" was called in earlier online fandom age.
it was partially "original female character" OFC?
like a little bit of mary sue?

i had those myself a lot in my teenage years (not and never published anything, just you know, in your own brain those imaginery stories your "wrote" for yourself?)

Re: is this a new trend, or older? Movie character/insert self or reader

[(Anonymous)]

Not every OFC/OC/OMC is a self insert, even if they do get paired with a main character.

Re: is this a new trend, or older? Movie character/insert self or reader

[(Anonymous)]

This.

Re: is this a new trend, or older? Movie character/insert self or reader

[(Anonymous)]

I guess I am ok with OCs or OMC/OFC where a character is created, given a name, put into the plot, whatever. I like those if they are well-written; I don't mind em, anyway. Live and let live.

I can't, however, get in to the ones where it's "Oh yes, my beautiful Y/N I will make sweet sweet love to you." Am I supposed to download it and find+replace for my name there? What is even? Has anyone else seen these?

I don't care if other people like it It's just not my thing. Haven't seen it much before this fandom, though. Well, this and MCU, I guess.