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"You need to stop writing self-insert nonsense if you want to be published!"

The thing about self-insert stories that writers often fail at doing, when trying to bring their stories to a wider audience is unfolding the fantasy.

In a self-insert story, yes, all the characters think the self-insert is fun and witty and nice and interesting, because it's a self-insert story. It's inherently wish-fulfillment. All you need to do is to unfold the fantasy. Take more space, not less. Show me WHY your self-insert is seen that way. Give them opportunities to be witty and fun and nice and interesting. Let them take up more space, not less!

When you don't, the only people who will be interested in your story are people who have similar fantasies and wish-fulfillment to yours.

When you unfold it and showcase it, you can sell that fantasy to people who would otherwise be uninterested.

All that to say, all fiction is inherently self-insert-y in some way, and yelling at people who are upfront about what they like to write to make yourself feel better or seem more impressive than you are is profoundly sad.

Write whatever the fuck you want to write, someone out there will be into it.

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Neuvillette’s smile will blind me to oblivion

OK one last post rq because I forgot to say I love this guy too

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Anastasia Trusova, “Dust” Acrylic on canvas, 2022

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there's this trick that racists/queerphobes/etc do, it's really slick. let's just do a little dialogue as an example, the names have been obscured but I've seen this exact exchange happen before.

Stephanie mc. Influencer: "And furthermore, body positivity intersects with black liberation, as black women are often held to unattainable eurocentric beauty standards"

Suave Replyboy Jr: "Lmao, you leftists always tell on yourselves, did you really just say black people are ugly??"

You see the trick here? it's kind of complicated, like, Stephanie is arguing from the perspective that beauty standards are arbitrary and subject to change, Suave understands beauty as an objective hierarchy, so he dunks on Stephanie safely from the inside of that standard. To him, and likely to many people who haven't thought about their own assumptions very much, the only reason black people would want their own body positivity movement is because they're ugly. Bonus points if Stephanie is white, and you can rile her community against her with claims of racism.

I've been getting some replies like this on my posts about sexual trauma, kink, and queerness. Like... I say that sexual deviance of all forms can intersect and correlate with queer identity, and dozens of Suave Replyboy Jrs come out and dunk on me from the other side of the glass, from inside the false universe I'm trying to discredit, the one where "sexual deviance" is immoral and associating queer sexuality with deviancy is an insult. I'm not saying queer people are dangerous perverts, that's you.

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*hands you tiny concept Ammy* *hands you tiny concept Ammy* *hands you tiny concept Ammy* *hands you tiny concept Ammy* *hands you tiny concept Ammy* *hands you tiny concept Ammy* *hands you tiny concept Ammy* *hands you tiny concept Ammy* *hands y

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"When are you going to update--"

Blocked.

:)

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i am. so sorry if i have ever used the phrase “i have an au where—” and led you to believe that there is an actual fic out there for you to read rather than, at best, a post where i explain the concept, and at worst it is simply something that lives in my brain

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i forgot to post this here welp … i draw of course my otp for this art trend on twitter last january hehe

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children existing in public spaces is genuinely like. necessary for the continuation of society. it doesnt have to be your kids you dont have to volunteer at a daycare or whatever but you need to be able to tolerate the presence of someone who is learning how to exist as a human and interact with people

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Since I see so many new people getting into Trigun thanks to Stampede, I just wanted to-

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Hoyoverse Friday! A peek into the Zenless Zone Zero PS5 beta test, Honkai Star Rail dailies, and then Genshin 4.6! Come hang out!

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Some Wanderer and Nahida interactions!! Some of them were inspired from the fanfics I read

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smallest mom in the world. very quick colors on a very old sketch