It was me. Zack Davis was jokingly suggesting a benefit performance, you were unhappy that it was a bad play, and I was looking for things that would make it a better play, such as playing it as a farce.
And again, the whole point was that, technically, it’s not self-insert fanfic if someone elsealready inserted you...
If you want to get more meta, you could have the characters in the story use game theory to analyze the causal basis for oppobrium towards authors of self-insert fanfic (perhaps in terms of signals about underlying psychological states, and/or signals about abhorrence of some of those psychological states, and/or signals about abhorrence of inadequate abhorrence).
(And then, having analyzed the oppobrium and reduced it to game theory and social psychology, they could argue about whether or not the oppobrium “should” apply to their own author. And about whether or not having the analysis even gives them any useful information to help decide that question.)
PS: Who was it that came up with the idea for me to write a self-insert fanfic based on Yudkowski Returns?
It was me. Zack Davis was jokingly suggesting a benefit performance, you were unhappy that it was a bad play, and I was looking for things that would make it a better play, such as playing it as a farce.
And again, the whole point was that, technically, it’s not self-insert fanfic if someone else already inserted you...
If you want to get more meta, you could have the characters in the story use game theory to analyze the causal basis for oppobrium towards authors of self-insert fanfic (perhaps in terms of signals about underlying psychological states, and/or signals about abhorrence of some of those psychological states, and/or signals about abhorrence of inadequate abhorrence).
(And then, having analyzed the oppobrium and reduced it to game theory and social psychology, they could argue about whether or not the oppobrium “should” apply to their own author. And about whether or not having the analysis even gives them any useful information to help decide that question.)
I think it may have been one of those “obvious minds think alike” moments. I’ll take credit if nobody else does, though.