themodawakens ([personal profile] themodawakens) wrote in [community profile] tfa_kink2015-12-19 05:07 pm
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Re: is this a new trend, or older? Movie character/insert self or reader

(Anonymous) 2016-02-21 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, yeah. That's kind of the point of fiction. You're inserting yourself into a different world when you read fiction.

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

(Anonymous) 2016-02-21 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
i guess, it depends on how narrow or broad our definition of "inserting" is.

yours is pretty broad, if you see that term "insert" already by reading as putting yourself into the story.

I see it more narrow, as in really writing a character modelled after yourself, to interact with the other fictional characters in the story.

so, i mary sued myself a lot on my teenage years into my imaginery stories in my brain. it helped a lot to escape from the banality of real life.

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

(Anonymous) 2016-02-21 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Then why did you specify "fanfiction"?

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

(Anonymous) 2016-02-21 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Fanfiction is a type of fiction.

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

(Anonymous) 2016-02-21 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
But not all fiction is fanfiction, and you (or they, I can't tell who's replying) at first specified fanfiction only.

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

(Anonymous) 2016-02-21 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, now you're getting into semantics and I have no desire to argue about that. Think what you want, but I think the point still stands that fanfiction is a type of fiction and fiction's point is to insert and immerse yourself in different characters' experiences and worlds.

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

(Anonymous) 2016-02-21 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I am the OP, and i have not been the one to argue with you.

and also, for this type of discussion, going anon seems like really impractical, because one cannot differ from replyer from the other.

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

(Anonymous) 2016-02-21 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
You sound confused.

This is the thread: https://tfa-kink.dreamwidth.org/930.html?thread=5659298#cmt5659298
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