Subject: [FFML] Regarding self-insertion fics
From: "Guy Under The Bridge ." <the_supergenius@hotmail.com>
Date: 8/7/1998, 3:00 PM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

If I had to respond to every self-insertion fic in this list I would 
probably be banned for flooding the ML with flames (even though I never 
flame, I just critique). I will now critique every self-insertion fic 
ever made and all self-insertion fics yet to be made.

I will never understand the mentality behind self-insertion fics. They 
have no purpose. They have no dramatic value. They are not entertaining, 
except, one assuages, for the writer.

Now, I -do- understand that people like to talk about themselves--this 
is also a childish impulse that people grow out of (the cappuccino 
silver-spoon carried-through-life adults are the exception). All 
self-insertion fics are the products of minds that are (still) immature.

I apologize to all offended parties, but I call them as I see them.


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