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* Hundreds, possibly ''thousands'' of these came up over the years in the ''[[Bob and George]]'' forums among the fan authors. It would be impossible to list them all. Needless to say, some were good, some were bad, and some were just plain ugly. |
* Hundreds, possibly ''thousands'' of these came up over the years in the ''[[Bob and George]]'' forums among the fan authors. It would be impossible to list them all. Needless to say, some were good, some were bad, and some were just plain ugly. |
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* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20180115193229/http://www.yggdrasil.org/omg/index.html Oh! My Brother].'' An example of the good kind of self-insert fic. Christopher Angel manages to create a very readable and enjoyable series. |
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20180115193229/http://www.yggdrasil.org/omg/index.html Oh! My Brother].'' An example of the good kind of self-insert fic. Christopher Angel manages to create a very readable and enjoyable series. |
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* One of the most prominent ''and'' influential self-insert stories of 1990s anime fandom was ''[https://archives.eyrie.org/anime/Twisted-Path/ Twisted] [https://puck.nether.net/~sakura/tpath/ Path]'' by Darren "Twister" Steffler. The [[Trope Codifier]] if not the [[Trope Maker]] for the self-insert character with godlike power, Twister was the subject of four large, complete works and several more fragments, and inspired more than a few other authors to try their hands at writing, both SI fics and not. |
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