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WCDT - Strips 4731-4735 (28th February to 4th March 2022)

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BenRG:
As a long-running fan-writer, today's strip really touches an important note for me and something that has genuinely affected me personally.

Personally, I've sworn off of consciously doing it after writing a friend at the time into a story and it basically making us both feel so weird that we felt better stopping interacting (this was about 25 years ago and that mess has become a life lesson for me). I've also seen stories (especially self-insert fan-fiction) with OCs based on real people (including friends of the author) turn pretty toxic very, very quickly. We won't talk to much about the toxic cesspit that are celebrity slashfics, which is basically what made Fanfiction.net close their board for stories about real people.

However, what's your attitude and experience with RL OCs, as I think of them?

Mr_Rose:
No, Hannelore, you don’t. Not if it’s one of Marigold’s fics at least. Like as not to put you right off firemen permanently…

Thrillho:
Several people I know are major influences on characters in a novel another friend of theirs wrote.

I have it on my shelf to eventually read, as it includes two characters based on my partners, but one of the other people in had the common indecency to die of a heart attack unexpectedly a few weeks ago despite only being 39, which makes that book some of the last of him last in the world, and I'm not sure how to feel about it.

I've never been one for fanfic, I don't really get it, but a lot of my friends are. I would have thought that being too particularly conscious of people you know showing up in your fiction would be a little bit 'not done', as it were, especially if it is sexy fanfiction.

I'm also not sure it's entirely fair to refer to all slash as a toxic cesspit?

flondrix:
Sexy space firemen.

flondrix:
On the other hand, Hanners has probably met space firemen, which would ruin the fanfic.

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