The new Weasley family motto: Better dead and red.
Hands! Hands in new places!
Willow ,'Storyteller'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
§ ita § - Oct 12, 2004 2:11:43 pm PDT #6159 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Katerina Bee - Oct 12, 2004 2:13:21 pm PDT #6160 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
(puts hands over ears, sings "Star Trek" theme in piercing voice to drown out offensive ideas)
Narrator - Oct 12, 2004 2:16:14 pm PDT #6161 of 10002
The evil is this way?
(Places cotton in ears to drown out "Star Trek" songs, and begins eulogy for Weasleys. Any of them. All of them.)
Polter-Cow - Oct 12, 2004 2:35:24 pm PDT #6162 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Betsy HP - Oct 12, 2004 2:49:07 pm PDT #6163 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Once upon a time, I just looked down and whatever I was wearing, that is what Anita wore. ... Anita wears more T-shirts now just as I do.
M-A-R-Y S-U-E
erikaj - Oct 12, 2004 4:39:16 pm PDT #6164 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
At what point are you borrowing from yourself to help create a character, and at what point is she a Mary Sue? Because I worry about that, when I write sometimes and I've not written about singing one way or the other yet.
Susan W. - Oct 12, 2004 4:49:33 pm PDT #6165 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Some of my favorite characters often get called Mary Sues (I'm thinking Harriet Vane and Phedre in the Kushiel books), and while I can see where the criticism is coming from, I really don't care because the characters are vivid and interesting to me. I wonder if this makes me flawed as a reader and/or a writer.
sumi - Oct 12, 2004 5:17:38 pm PDT #6166 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Went to the library yesterday and discovered that Marian Chesney is M.C. Beaton.
Which upon reflection -- makes a lot of sense.
Typo Boy - Oct 12, 2004 5:19:08 pm PDT #6167 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Don't think vane could reasonably be called a mary sue.Phedre I think so. I find it very suspicious when a character almost never makes a seriously bad choice. Vane made plenty, P not so much.
Susan W. - Oct 12, 2004 5:28:10 pm PDT #6168 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
My understanding is that Harriet is a fairly transparent authorial insertion. The thing is, if I like a character sufficiently, I don't care if they're an authorial insertion, idealized or otherwise.