Dragonlayer said:
"PPG Writer self-inserts himself as a love interest for one of the girls."
Heh, that's a little cringe-worthy! I wonder what PPG is....
"Powerpuff Girls."
....Okey-fucking-dokey!
Alas, for the sake of creepy chuckles it appears that EternallyBored has disproven this, or at the very least provided an excellent counter-point as to why the original source is probably not the most reliable evidence in the world, but I still got my laugh for the day.
Also, on the subject of forbidden love, is anyone else seeing these bloody Indian love guru advertisements spamming all over the Escapist?
Still worth a good chuckle even if it isn't the writer being a creep. I mean how the hell did the artists not realize what a bad idea that was, or the writer realize the joke was a bit weird when he was asked to voice the character, or the director catching that a writer voicing what is essentially a self insert character might look bad. Either that or they are adorably innocent in not realizing what a self insert was or how they are viewed by the internet, its like none of them have ever seen bad fanfiction before.
Really, staff self inserts in general are not really something that should be appearing in regular speaking character rolls, even without the romantic context and underage characters it comes across as bad writing, although I've got no problem with the concept when its kept to the background, it was a shame when Hasbro went zero tolerance on staff inserting their OCS into MLP after season 2, some of the staff ponies are actually pretty well designed.
As for the second, yeah, these stupid love guru spam topics have cropped up in the past, at least a year or more ago, dunno if its the lack of mods but its gone from a once or twice kind of thing to these spammers cropping up every night or so, starting to get annoying at this point.