A character who is the author, put into the story — the self-insert — as fanfiction's oldest form and most-mocked, and the record's entry for the wish made into a character, which every writer has done and few admit.
The record notes 'self-insert' is now used about films, novels and one autobiography, and that the record itself is, arguably, one.
Spotted on a laminated sign in a chain café, Rotterdam, Jan this year. Self-Insert, in a headline font. A manager did this on purpose and I would like their name for the record.
My first sighting was 2000, in a reply from someone I have never met, and I understood it immediately. That is the closest thing to magic the internet still does.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
