Dear Yuletide author,

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When I wrote last year's au_bigbangs, I vaguely referred to two other fandoms within the stories - for the lulz! - and then amused myself by stuffing as many references to as many others of mine as I could shove in. I always meant to do a proper attribution post, but just ... forgot. But now I've remembered! So here they are. (The citations are in ( Read more... )

There's a lot of discussion going on about Mary Sues, and what makes a Mary Sue, and Sue shaming and so on. I'm kind of ambivalent, or at least confused, so I have all the following thoughts about it:

-- awesome male character = badass. awesome female character (often) = Sue. Double standards at their worst.

-- wish-fulfilment is not bad. It is not ( Read more... )