Fandom AU fanfic about female characters

[alias_sqbr]

I've come across a few fandom AU m/m fics where the leads are fanfic authors (most recently The Theory of Narrative Causality, which I thought was quite cleverly done) and was wondering if there were any similar stories with a fanfic writing female (or otherwise non-male) protagonist based on a fictional character, not counting Becky from Supernatural (where's it's canon(*))

It's not that I'm desperate to read such a story, though I'd give it a go, I'm just curious. I can imagine that the spectre of Mary Sue would loom particularly large with such stories, especially since a common flaw in the m/m I've seen of this type is the way fandom fawns over the main characters (leading to a "female fans squeeing about male fans squeeing about male characters" vibe that rubs me the wrong way)

Varric and Isabela from Dragon Age 2 both canonically write (or at least discuss) stories about the other characters, but I find it hard to imagine a fandom AU that would feel very in character. (EDIT: Wait, no it's not. Ok, this is fun to imagine :D)

...and now I want a modern day AU of Northanger Abbey with Catherine and Isabella as writers of terrible Mary Sue fics and Henry as the non-geeky guy they try and convert to their favourite tv show.

(*)For an example of SPN fic being deliberately meta about her, see If On a Winter’s Night a Fangirl and How Becky Totally Saved the World.

Comments

[havocthecat]

I think I've only ever seen it with the female characters writing m/m slash fic. Which, you know, realistic and all, but makes me yawn. Because women writing about women is also realistic, but I don't actually see it.

[alias_sqbr]

The link below has femslash about a femslash and het writer, woo!