Authorfic

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Authorfic is a genre of fan fiction where the author writes him/herself into the canonical universe as the author. The author is not an avatar or a Mary Sue. Authorfics were frequently used on mailing lists as a form of community building. This was best evidenced on b5creative during the mid 1990s. Authorfics were also done to make obvious "corrections" to canon, like getting a favorite pairing to finally see the light by having the author directly intervene. This was done by a number of authors in the X-Files fandom. Authorfics were also just done for fun, like Harry Potter fen did on FanFiction.Net. This practice appeared to have died by 2002.