Self-Insert Ultra-Long By Amanda Hudgins • December 31st, 2021 Long fanworks are interesting both for their clear amount of dedication to the craft and how much of an outlier they actually are.
Self-Insert Soulmate Goose of Enforcement By Amanda Hudgins • December 1st, 2021 Geese exist to cause trouble. And honk. Or perhaps, help someone find the love of their life.
Self-Insert Lemon and Lime By Amanda Hudgins • July 6th, 2021 A journey to the citrus grove scale of fanfic tags.
Self-Insert Sheriff Stilinski’s Name is John By Amanda Hudgins • March 25th, 2021 Stiles Stilinski’s name is definitely, unambiguously John. OK?
Self-Insert Regency Era AU By Amanda Hudgins • March 3rd, 2021 At somepoint, it is always Omegaverse, isn’t it?
Self-Insert Rarepairs By Amanda Hudgins • January 5th, 2021 Their pairing often isn’t just not canon – it’s so far off the beaten path that other writers maybe don’t even see it themselves…
Self-Insert Tagging By Amanda Hudgins • December 3rd, 2020 Tagging fics is both a conversation and a function in fanfiction.
Self-Insert Niche Interests By Amanda Hudgins • September 25th, 2020 “Sometimes, in fiction, you write about your experience so vividly, so precisely, that it could not have come from anyone but you.”
You Should Not Get Your Sexual Education from Fanfiction. By Ailuridae • September 7th, 2020 The headline says it all.
Self Insert Quarantine Fics By Amanda Hudgins • August 10th, 2020 When the entire world is on lockdown, even alternate universes start hitting closer to home.
Self Insert No Beta We Die Like Men By Amanda Hudgins • July 8th, 2020 Readers never know what they’re going to get with this tag. It may be a warning, but it’s not always deserved.
Self Insert Expectations By Amanda Hudgins • May 11th, 2020 There’s a different expectation in books versus fanfiction; one predicated on tags and warnings.
Self-Insert RPF By Amanda Hudgins • April 13th, 2020 Bring Real Person Fanfiction onto The Graham Norton Show, cowards.
Self Insert When Fanon Eclipses Canon By Amanda Hudgins • March 10th, 2020 How a Canadian TV show from the ’90s lives on in alternative universe fanfiction.
Self-Insert A+ Parenting By Amanda Hudgins • May 12th, 2019 Fanfics dive into how one generation’s crappy fictional dad makes the next generation’s neurotic protagonist.
Self-Insert The Unsinkable Darcy Lewis By Amanda Hudgins • December 7th, 2018 A side character from Thor has almost 15,000 fanfics featuring her. Amanda Hudgins asks the question: Why does Darcy Lewis persist?
Self-Insert Alpha/Beta/Omega FanFic By Amanda Hudgins • September 7th, 2017 The things we saw when we searched Google images for Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics to illustrate this article would make all the cenobites in Hellraiser blush.
Self Insert Mpreg By Amanda Hudgins • May 4th, 2017 This month’s weird fan fiction trend: male pregnancy!
Self Insert Who is Clan Techie? By Amanda Hudgins • February 23rd, 2017 Fan ficton: where Judge Dredd meets Star Wars.
Self-Insert Lung Flowers By Amanda Hudgins • February 4th, 2017 Amanda Hudgins examines a strange new disease in the fanfiction community.
