Michele, that's perfect. That's a definition of Mary Sue that I can get behind. I love it so much I"ve bookmarked your post so I can find that again.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
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Connie Neil - Jan 30, 2003 4:01:05 pm PST #3206 of 10000
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§ ita § - Jan 30, 2003 5:12:26 pm PST #3207 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Dude, I love that.
Consuela - Jan 30, 2003 5:12:50 pm PST #3208 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Yeah, that's really good. I like Alara, she's quite thoughtful.
Rebecca Lizard - Jan 30, 2003 5:35:18 pm PST #3209 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Hm. I think I disagree with it in a few different ways; but then again, my personal definition of Mary Sue pretty much is "is it an unrealistic, or boring, over-sympathetic character? stamp her ass." I find MS in original intendedly-literary fiction all the time.
P.M. Marc - Jan 30, 2003 5:36:46 pm PST #3210 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Hm. I think I disagree with it in a few different ways; but then again, my personal definition of Mary Sue pretty much is "is it an unrealistic, or boring, over-sympathetic character? stamp her ass." I find MS in original intendedly-literary fiction all the time.
Rebecca Lizard Speaks For Me.
Rebecca Lizard - Jan 30, 2003 5:49:19 pm PST #3211 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
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Atropa - Jan 30, 2003 5:51:00 pm PST #3212 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I still think Laurell K. Hamilton is getting rich writing Mary Sue characters.
Connie Neil - Jan 30, 2003 5:53:45 pm PST #3213 of 10000
brillig
Jilli is me. With a better wardrobe, cooler job, and all around niftier life.
Atropa - Jan 30, 2003 5:57:29 pm PST #3214 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Jilli is me. With a better wardrobe, cooler job, and all around niftier life.
As in I speak for you, or I'm your Mary Sue? 'Cos if it's the latter, I must shamefacedly admit to not owning any bladed weapons. Not because I don't want to, but because The Husband doesn't think it would be a good idea to let me have any.
Connie Neil - Jan 30, 2003 6:02:29 pm PST #3215 of 10000
brillig
shamefacedly admit to not owning any bladed weapons
What does it say about my worldview that I was intially shocked by that statement? "But," I said to myself, "Everyone needs to have bladed weapons!"
Buy your own, Jilli, buy your own.