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This trope is extremely common, even in fandoms that presumably lean heavily male, such as ''[[Star Trek]]'', ''[[Naruto]]'', and ''[[Transformers]]''.
This trope has been in effect since well before the internet made it much easier to proliferate fanfic. Studies of early ''[[Star Trek]]'' fanfiction showed as many as 90% of authors were female in the 1970s, even though at the time such stories could only be shared through fanzines or through sending self-addressed-stamped-envelopes to the authors and having them mail you a manuscript.
This phenomenon has been subjected to academic analysis by ethnographer Camille Bacon-Smith and MIT's Henry Jenkins. Jenkins suggests in ''Textual Poachers'' that fanfiction is a reaction on the part of a female audience trying to find their own pleasures in media that caters mostly to males.
See also [[Shipping]], [[Slash Fic]], [[Everyone Is Gay]], [[Estrogen Brigade]], [[Het Is Ew]]. Compare [[Most Writers Are Male]] and [[Most Tropers Are Young Nerds]]. Combine with [[The Internet Is for Porn]] to get [[All Women Are Lustful]].
Creates a [[Logic Bomb|paradox]] when faced with the trope [[There Are No Girls on the Internet]].
'''Only examples where a character ''in the work'' writes a fanfic are to be added.''' Parodies and deconstructions should not be added.
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* ''[[Genshiken]]'': Ogiue also draws [[Yaoi]] [[Doujinshi]], much to the great trouble of her Editor boyfriend who is...not a fan. Well, Sasahara gets the appeal of yaoi to her... it's just more than a little awkward when she draws him and ships him with one of his best friends. Other than being featured himself, he's surprisingly accepting.
* [[Punny Name|Harumi Fujiyoshi]] of ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'' draws [[Doujinshi]] as well -- one of them about her Teacher [[Hiroshi Kamiya|Itoshiki-sensei]]. As well as a pairing of Apple × Pine when everyone else likes [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Pine × Apple]] (the characters in question are [[Expy|expies]] of [[Yes! Pretty Cure 5|Coco and Nuts]]). In the third series she is seen drawing a ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' [[Shout-Out|Tieria]] (also voiced by Hiroshi Kamiya) [[Doujinshi]].
* ''[[Darker
* Nobuko Yokokawa of ''[[Ojamajo Doremi]]'' writes stories loosely based on her friends and classmates with her best friend Aiko she idolizes as the [[Mary Sue]] protagonist in most of them. Later joined by the shy artist girl Miho Maruyama, who starts creating similar comics with her. With their stories involving romantic plots with their own self-insert characters along with Aiko's, it results in awkwardly heavy doses of [[Les Yay]] for a kids' anime.
* Hikaru Amano of [[Martian Successor Nadesico]] portrays this in the English dub. She writes [[Self Insert]] [[Slash Fics]].
* Erika from [[Durarara!!]] openly discusses writing [[Slash Fics]] about her friends. She also ships [[Foe Yay|Izaya/Shizuo]].
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* In ''[[Dragon Age II]]'', Isabela writes "friend fiction". We only get to hear a bit featuring Aveline and Donnic but according to Isabela, she does it for everyone.
** However, she does it only as a fan of Varric, who is also a professional writer, who uses his friends as thinly veiled "inspirations" all the time.
* In the ''[[Fable III]]'' side quest, ''The Pen is Mightier'', one of the books is entitled ''The Pangs of Sunset''. It is essentially just an [[Romance Novel|erotic novel]] featuring the Heros from the ''previous'' game. It is implied to contain both [[Guy-On-Guy Is Hot|Slash]] and [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|Femslash]] and is written by a woman named Ilona Pureheart
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* Rose in ''[[Homestuck]]'' writes really awful wizard fanfic.
** Andrew once said that said fanfic is supposed to be Rose's subconscious retelling Hivebent.
** There's little evidence to suggest this was actually fanfiction. Only [[Deadpan Snarker|Dave]] ever called it fanfiction, and its status as a book series in post-scratch Earth suggests it's just a wizard story, not a fanfic.
** Additionally, the female troll UranianUmbra admits to writing fanfic about the Alpha Kids.
* In ''[[Shortpacked]]'', Amber writes a [[Web Serial Novel]] that is a pastiche of [[Twilight]].
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* Donut of ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' mentions writing some ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fanfiction but [[Ambiguously Gay|well...]]
* Tea is made this in [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-gi-oh Abridged]].
** She writes Harry Potter fics, and ships Harry/Hedwig, in case you were curious.
* Similar to the Yu-gi-oh Abridged example, Twilight Sparkle is an avid fanfiction writer in [[Friendship Is Witchcraft]]... except she writes fanfic ''about her friends''. Creepy.
* [[The Nostalgia Chick]] is seen in a [[Flash Back]] apparently writing ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'' slashfic.
== Western Animation ==
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