...If you DO have thoughts about a teacherly role you feel would be fitting, then do jump in. I was envisaging you more as the grumpy artist-in-residence in the Rapunzel-style tower, from whom the wee black-clad moppets flee in terror. But I'm open to suggestions.
Hee! You've just described how I picture what life would be like at an actual Gothic Charm School. Especially with Pete's addition of
Perhaps he is seen out of the tower for sketching and tasty treats.
Oh! The sweet girl writing the GCS fanfic has put it up on her Myspace blog: [link]
Oh sweet baby Jesus, I'm reading her fanfic now. The SPELLING!!!! And she's twenty, so there's really NO justification for the spelling. Or the punctuation.
t /Curmudgeonly Snapelike Teacher!Fay
That aside, I do approve in general of the notion of writing GCS fanfic, clearly. Um.
scurries off to grab up fountain pen
...oh, gosh, she's written Pete in a top hat.
And nothing else, as far as I can gather. (Which seems distinctly improper, if you ask me.)
Oh sweet baby Jesus, I'm reading her fanfic now. The SPELLING!!!! And she's twenty, so there's really NO justification for the spelling. Or the punctuation.
Oh, I know. But she means well, bless her.
...oh, gosh, she's written Pete in a top hat.
Oh... joy.
Oh whatever, it's not like she knows me. At least I'm not wearing eyeliner.
...
Don't get any ideas.
laughs and laughs and laughs and laughs.
and laughs
I can't
wait
for Fay's story.
giggles delightedly, which turns into a coughing fit
she's written Pete in a top hat.
And nothing else, as far as I can gather. (Which seems distinctly improper, if you ask me.)
Oh, you didn't mean that like porn?
(I looked at the Myspace page--it was centre-aligned italics--I'll read the reviews)
I have a completely unrelated question: Can it be a Mary Sue without authorial insertion? Is it possible for a character to look too good to be true without the feeling that the writer's getting personally off on it? If so, what would you call it instead?
I'd still consider that Mary Sue; I don't know whether that meshes with the general consensus, but I've always tended to think of Mary Sue as a catch-all term for actual authorial insertion characters ::cough::AnitaBlake::cough:: and for too-perfect-to-be-true-or-interesting characters that are more a result of the writer's inability to create rounded and plausible original characters than they are an expression of the writer's wish to jump into the text.
But ymmv.
and for too-perfect-to-be-true-or-interesting characters that are more a result of the writer's inability to create rounded and plausible original characters than they are an expression of the writer's wish to jump into the text.
Bingo. This is what I mean by Mary Sue.
