...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.)
Wash: Captain, didn't you know kissin' girls makes you sleepy? Mal: Well sometimes I just can't help myself.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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Fay - Sep 11, 2009 2:35:18 pm PDT #6239 of 10434
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Atropa - Sep 11, 2009 2:36:59 pm PDT #6240 of 10434
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
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.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Sep 11, 2009 2:55:05 pm PDT #6241 of 10434
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
...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.
Fay - Sep 11, 2009 2:57:15 pm PDT #6242 of 10434
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
laughs and laughs and laughs and laughs.
and laughs
Atropa - Sep 11, 2009 2:57:48 pm PDT #6243 of 10434
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I can't wait for Fay's story.
giggles delightedly, which turns into a coughing fit
§ ita § - Sep 11, 2009 3:39:22 pm PDT #6244 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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?
Fay - Sep 11, 2009 3:51:23 pm PDT #6245 of 10434
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
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.
Atropa - Sep 11, 2009 4:05:46 pm PDT #6246 of 10434
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
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.
erikaj - Sep 11, 2009 4:12:24 pm PDT #6247 of 10434
Always Anti-fascist!
I think "Too good to be true," is Mary Sue.
§ ita § - Sep 11, 2009 6:04:39 pm PDT #6248 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Which just boils down to how good is too good to be true? Is Temperance Brennan or anyone on her team or even Seeley Booth too good to be true? Charlie Eppes? James Bond? Jason Bourne? That's the line you have to walk with your original characters, I guess, but for conflict you can't have your original characters completely overshadowed by these people, and fans of canon can get really possessive and prickly.