Hey, guys! I’ve been a little busy these past few weeks, but got a break just in time to come upon a charming Sue-supporting rant, to which I couldn’t resist responding
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(I wanted to comment briefly on your excellent rebuttal, Araeph, but the PPC comm doesn't allow commenting from non-members, so I hope you don't mind me doing that here instead. I really thought it was a fantastic essay - I've been vaguely following the recent Mary Sue discussions going on across Fandom and boggling at the way some people seem to be defining the term (I saw one person suggest that because of some of the things she's done/experienced in her life, if she wrote an autobiography, she'd likely be accused of being a Mary Sue!) - and you've articulated all of the problems I've had with the various arguments made, and many other issues besides, so beautifully.
Ultimately, Mary Sue is bowling-with-bumpers safe as a way to experience a story. She is unrealistically beautiful, inhumanly powerful, and always gets rewarded for everything she does with only the barest of struggles. She can’t fail. She can’t get humiliated. The story itself will dutifully remove all real obstacles from her shining path. And a character who needs
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You can joing the community temporarily, if it helps. I'd change the closed commenting thing, but I'm not a mod of that community.
Glad you liked my impromptu essay! I too boggle at the way some people define Mary Sue, in clear contradiction to Wikpedia, the Fanfiction Glossary, and pretty much everywhere else.
My guess is the author meant to write 40lbs, not 4. No, wait, that's my hope. My fervent, fervent hope that this author did not think a five-year-old child is lighter, on average, than a brick.
I have stayed far, far away from Twilight due to the negative comments from almost everyone I know...though I have a niggling desire to rent the movie on Netflix and watch it with Rifftrax on.
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Ultimately, Mary Sue is bowling-with-bumpers safe as a way to experience a story. She is unrealistically beautiful, inhumanly powerful, and always gets rewarded for everything she does with only the barest of struggles. She can’t fail. She can’t get humiliated. The story itself will dutifully remove all real obstacles from her shining path. And a character who needs ( ... )
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Glad you liked my impromptu essay! I too boggle at the way some people define Mary Sue, in clear contradiction to Wikpedia, the Fanfiction Glossary, and pretty much everywhere else.
My guess is the author meant to write 40lbs, not 4. No, wait, that's my hope. My fervent, fervent hope that this author did not think a five-year-old child is lighter, on average, than a brick.
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First Breath: 18th March 92
2010 - 1992 = 18
Don't worry, I'm scared, too. (Oops, I mean: dont worry im sacred to)
But yeah, the "In the Blacksmith" line is one of the funniest things I've read in a while.
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