#y'all im sorry for the person i am after 8pm 😭

[landograndprix]

Hey! Just wanted to throw my opinion in about the OC discussion. I wanted to preface this by saying that this opinion has been formed over a number of different fandoms, sites and years and that will be my reference. I’ve never minded having an OC, and honestly prefer that over Y/N. I think it has a lot to do with the fic platform and era that people started reading fics. I’m 25 so I feel that’s a little older than most others in the F1 fandom, but young for fandoms such as HP or the like. My 1st fandoms were HP and Twilight and that was predominantly hosted on fanfiction.net and AO3; way back in of dark ages of ‘07 or ‘08 before the the porn purges so needless to say I was reading well above the maturity level I should have been (got to love that unsupervised internet access). Neither of these have ever been heavy in the reader-inserts-there was even a push on both platforms early on to delete/report stories that were posted using this format. I’ve even had discussions w/ mutuals that I ended giving Y/N a name that I felt fit their personality instead of using my own. And was surprised that there were many in agreement with me. I don’t think reader inserts really b/c main stream. Personally, it feels like people become frustrated when something is tag or portrayed as a reader insert and then falls through; i.e. when they talk about hair length/skin tone or they give the character TOO much personality. Reader inserts really had a uptick when Wattpad became Mainstream in 2011-almost 7 years after it went live; which I feel fits the majority age of the general audience/writers in the F1 community. The most popular way that I’ve seen authors get away with having a reader insert without making them an OC is by giving them a a nickname that’s not related to an actual name; i.e Pip or Snoopy.

That was all to say; I would completely support an OC work. I think you’re a wonderfully talented author; and your work will do well no matter what format you take. And look forward to seeing what you come up with.

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First off all I want to apologise to the people that follow me and have to see me complain about dumb things, these posts are posted during the evening and evening me is so much more dramatic than normal me. Like normal me is always so embarrassed to read back my stuff and see people react to it 😭 that being said, thank you for this message! We're in the same age range so I agree with all of the things you've said! It was just me being conflicted over things that shouldn't bother one so much, there's so many people on this site that actually use OC reader 😅