Feature Excerpt AI in Fanfiction By Amanda Hudgins • April 28th, 2025 I have never willingly read an AI “fanwork” because I do not read things that no one has written.
Self-Insert Mary Sue By Amanda Hudgins • February 2nd, 2024 She is you, a teenager who is stuck in a small town with no friends, with cruel acquaintances who don’t love any of the things that you do, who has been told for years that boys bully you because they like you.
Self-Insert Thread Fics By Amanda Hudgins • March 28th, 2023 In a lot of ways, Twitter is the home of the thread fic and when it goes, so will they.
Self-Insert Lemon and Lime By Amanda Hudgins • July 6th, 2021 A journey to the citrus grove scale of fanfic tags.
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.”
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 When Fanon Eclipses Canon By Amanda Hudgins • March 10th, 2020 How a Canadian TV show from the ’90s lives on in alternative universe fanfiction.
