garfieldi find it strange whene people try to repurpose the mary sue concept as like "it wasnt always misogynistic" when the protagonist being inexplicably amazing at everything is the biggest trope in western storytelling
like have you READ the iliad?
fanfiction writers love to insert themselves into their stories in order to live out their fantasies, much unlike REAL writers, who NEVER do that
floppyplopper@garfiald
Literally can't think of a writer who doesn't do this. Respect writers who are at least honest about it.
Literally can't think of a writer who doesn't do this. Respect writers who are at least honest about it.
shadow of a Hadada Ibis@garfiald
on top of that, not all fanfic writers are cishet white men
so there's also the matter of seeing themselves represented in the media and the stories they want to live in, in the WAY they want to be represented