Fantasy is fantasy, and so long as you know the difference between imagination and reality, spinning yourself a hot little fantasy about doing a fictional character isn't at all equivalent to the whackos who think they're actually married to Snape on the astral plane and so forth.
No, it's not. And I would argue that fantasizing about fictional characters (either live action or cartoon) has HUGE advantages over fantasizing about, say, that hot barista or your BF's hot boyfriend. There's no change of running into them outside your head and there's no chance of discovering that they, like, eat the link from between their toes, thus utterly decimating your fantasy.
Even incorporating selected elements of that fantasy into a creative work isn't intrinsically a problem, if it's done with careful thought.
Also true.
But just putting your totally unfiltered private self-insert fantasy up as a piece of fanfic is the sort of oversharing that really doesn't tend to make a good impression on people.
It really doesn't. And, if you think about it, you're telling strangers on the internet way more about yourself than you probably really want them to know.
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No, it's not. And I would argue that fantasizing about fictional characters (either live action or cartoon) has HUGE advantages over fantasizing about, say, that hot barista or your BF's hot boyfriend. There's no change of running into them outside your head and there's no chance of discovering that they, like, eat the link from between their toes, thus utterly decimating your fantasy.
Even incorporating selected elements of that fantasy into a creative work isn't intrinsically a problem, if it's done with careful thought.
Also true.
But just putting your totally unfiltered private self-insert fantasy up as a piece of fanfic is the sort of oversharing that really doesn't tend to make a good impression on people.
It really doesn't. And, if you think about it, you're telling strangers on the internet way more about yourself than you probably really want them to know.