Heh!!!!!

For instance, in "Kid Dynamo", the fact that a new girl who's a godawfully powerful telekinetic and Magneto's daughter doesn't warp the cast out of recognition; the New Mutants continue to have their personal lives, they have interactions that have nothing to do with the new girl, and she pretty much never singlehandedly saves the day.

That's my story and character.

if I came across a sympathetic and unrealistically talented character in a story and said "Mary Sue! Next!"

I don't think you understood me completely. I didn't say sympathetic, I said over-sympathetic. There's a vast difference between the two in my mind.

And I didn't say "unrealistically talented". I said "unrealistic". And I said "boring". Someone who is not a realistically-*human* character, flat and two-dimensional (or, I suppose, if this is Flatland fic, one-dimensional) and (as is clear from narrational cues) *expected* to be found charming and wise and morally correct by the readers-- that's a Mary Sue to me. Orlando is *not* a Mary Sue.

That's my story and character.

Rock. Recognition is cool.

Actually, I now have a valid reason to beg someone for an LJ code, since I could then go to the discussion and thank her for saying nice things about my story... that is, if there's anybody here tonight with a code to offer?

I think I have a code, let me check.

Theo--I have a code, would you like me to send it to your profile addy?

Profile would be good, yep! Thanks in advance!

Okay, insent

SA, what is your tag from???

(For the record: "Turn the light out. I want your tongue and your teeth. I'm deeper in you than the sound of your voice.")

Yay! I got onto LJ last night. so thank you, askye! (I'm on as Theodosia, which should make things simpler.) Now I have to go leave a comment for Alanna....