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It is typically used in the context of fan fiction or storytelling to describe a character that represents the author or a projection of themselves. Example: "In her latest novel, the protagonist is a self-insert, reflecting the author's own experiences and emotions." Alternatives include "author avatar" or "self-representation."
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When the self-insert character is the author thinly disguised this is called Mary Sue fic.
The most notable works are examples of self-insert fic – in which the writer meets their hero.
The story 1st by Cassie Chassey is a Self-insert Mary Sue Het Slash romance which includes "emotional abuse, sexual abuse and sexual assault".
Roosevelt in this case was not the then President, so this was also real person fic – in which a fan writes about politicians, sports celebrities, musicians, film stars etc, as if they are known to them – with self-insert.
With Fifty Shades this ceases to be the case, and, as we have seen, fanfic offers many tools for recycling (AU, crossover, mashup, self-insert, Mary Sue, the 12 varieties of slash etc) which takes the recombination of texts into the exponential.
If you're writing a semi-autobiographical work, your self-insert character should probably speak and act like you.
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The self-splicing and self-inserting (reverse splicing) of the intron would mediate the interchange of the self-aminoacylation state and the charged mature state.
In the study only 2/32 (6%) patients self-inserted an NG tube to receive elemental feeds, the remaining patients took supplemental drinks orally.
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