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Category: Self-Insert

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Four people in casual clothing stand in a hallway, two of them have guns drawn and pointed out of frame.

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.

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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.

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Colonel Sebastian Moran

By Amanda Hudgins • August 5th, 2021

The man who wasn’t there

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A photograph of sliced lemons and limes.

Lemon and Lime

By Amanda Hudgins • July 6th, 2021

A journey to the citrus grove scale of fanfic tags.

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A word cloud of tags to describe Sheriff Stilinski.

Sheriff Stilinski’s Name is John

By Amanda Hudgins • March 25th, 2021

Stiles Stilinski’s name is definitely, unambiguously John. OK?

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A painting where a woman is attempting to escape the charm of a man.

Regency Era AU

By Amanda Hudgins • March 3rd, 2021

At somepoint, it is always Omegaverse, isn’t it?

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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…

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Tagging

By Amanda Hudgins • December 3rd, 2020

Tagging fics is both a conversation and a function in fanfiction.

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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.

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Quarantine Fics

By Amanda Hudgins • August 10th, 2020

When the entire world is on lockdown, even alternate universes start hitting closer to home.

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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.

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Expectations

By Amanda Hudgins • May 11th, 2020

There’s a different expectation in books versus fanfiction; one predicated on tags and warnings.

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RPF

By Amanda Hudgins • April 13th, 2020

Bring Real Person Fanfiction onto The Graham Norton Show, cowards.

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When Fanon Eclipses Canon

By Amanda Hudgins • March 10th, 2020

How a Canadian TV show from the ’90s lives on in alternative universe fanfiction.

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Dead Dove Do Not Eat

By Amanda Hudgins • February 6th, 2020

Let this be your warning.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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Mpreg

By Amanda Hudgins • May 4th, 2017

This month’s weird fan fiction trend: male pregnancy!

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Achromatopsia

By Amanda Hudgins • April 5th, 2017

Why do birds suddenly appear…?

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Who is Clan Techie?

By Amanda Hudgins • February 23rd, 2017

Fan ficton: where Judge Dredd meets Star Wars.

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Lung Flowers

By Amanda Hudgins • February 4th, 2017

Amanda Hudgins examines a strange new disease in the fanfiction community.

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