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0521: Don't Deny Me - Leena Selene

Sep 07, 2004 19:49

Does anybody have any theories on why the Sue Authors always take pains to tell us that they own their Sues? Because every single one of them seems to take trouble to specify it. Is it just a 'I do it 'cause everybody else does' thing, or what?

TITLE: Don't Deny Me
PERPETRATOR: Punkishbrat (oh, that's promising)

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rating - awful, pw - girl power - not!, nts - name is serena/serinity

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On the unoriginality of Suefic. kylegirl September 7 2004, 19:28:28 UTC

I think there's some kind of developmental reason why the Suethors all write the same Sue. It's like how you (and by "you" I mean "I") used to act out the same game over and over when you were a kid. It's not about the originality of if, it's sort of about the action of it. I think writing a Suefic is probably a lot like the "plays" my sister and cousins and I used to put on, which were always a)an abbreviated version of "Annie," b)this interminable thing with a princess, a serving-maid, and a prince, and c)Snow White (with a serious dwarf shortage because I didn't have that many cousins, and sometimes featuring a wolf, because we had a really good wolf costume, which was actually supposed to be a cat costume but looked more wolflike). We acted out the same stories over and over again, dozens of times. And we made all our adult relatives watch! (And they were really good sports about it.)

I think that's what's going on in Suefic.

Re: On the unoriginality of Suefic. vytresna September 7 2004, 19:39:08 UTC

I used to do that as a kid too. I see what you mean

Re: On the unoriginality of Suefic. phaballa September 7 2004, 20:12:14 UTC

Yes, that's it exactly! When I was a kid I used to spend hours writing stories that were basically copies of either Tamora Pierce's Alanna series or the Catherine Dahl character from "Flowers in the Attic" only without all the incest and scary grandmothers/mothers/arsenic poisoning. Then I'd stop ten pages into it and realize that I was just copying other people. Then I'd get sad that I couldn't think of my own stuff. Then I'd do it again the next day ;) Poor Sues. They're just kids trying to learn how to write, and here we are making fun of them. Not that we should stop. It's way too much fun!

Re: On the unoriginality of Suefic. kylegirl September 7 2004, 20:33:39 UTC

Oh, no, don't stop the mock! The mock must continue. It's like, um, the circle of life. Or something.

Re: On the unoriginality of Suefic. rainbowjehan September 7 2004, 20:19:34 UTC

I think you're entirely right. My sister and I did much the same thing, but we actually did it with Tom Sawyer, and we just did it over and over and over again, these long things we called plays, that involved lots of 'Sues. We didn't even act them; we just told them to each other like stories. 'Course, we were about nine and ten at the time...

So the 'Sues evidentally really need to grow up.

Of course, now, the adults don't tolerate it! Bwaha!

Re: On the unoriginality of Suefic. kylegirl September 7 2004, 20:46:08 UTC

Heh. Yes, the Suethors err in putting their work out where grownups who don't love them can see it. And mock it. Poor Suethors. Someday they'll learn.

Re: On the unoriginality of Suefic. rainbowjehan September 7 2004, 20:50:15 UTC

Or not, and then we'll just have to go on mocking them. How sad. :)

Re: On the unoriginality of Suefic. mipeltaja September 7 2004, 22:27:10 UTC

My little sister and I (and sometimes a friend of mine or two) used to put a blanket over two chairs and perform a puppet show from behind it with stuffed animals. I don't remember if there was any plotlines in them, just that since we didn't mix Barbies with stuffed animals we never had a princess story, but we did have a Three Little Piglets ripoff once. These things always ended the same; We either accidentally dropped the toys on the other side of deliberately threw them there.

My parents weren't very nice about it, they only had the energy to watch a few and after that they absolutely refused to watch. Maybe that's what made me a good little lesbian minion, though.

deceptica September 8 2004, 04:50:23 UTC

My little sister and I (and sometimes a friend of mine or two) used to put a blanket over two chairs and perform a puppet show from behind it with stuffed animals.

OMG, I did the exact same thing with my friends! And here I thought we were unique. ;-) I'm sure we did have plotlines, though. And I don't think we ever subjected any adults to our puppet shows.

jennyanydots21 September 8 2004, 05:18:43 UTC

My friends and I (on holiday with them in Australia) managed to get out hands on a video camera and performed a play about a horse race, purely for the benefit of my friend Niamh who was mad about horses. I was the announcer-lady. Niamh was a jockey - her horse was one of those horse-head thingies on a stick. (And she had a genuine riding helmet.) My sister and Niamh's little brother Owen, were the other horse, whose name was "In Two Bits", and which naturally broke up half-way through (going over a jump) causing massive consternation and claims of cheating and so forth.

The best thing about that play, I realise now, is that what with the crazy names horses have (ever seen them?) In Two Bits isn't at all strange.

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