0521: Don't Deny Me - Leena Selene

[pottersues]

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)

SUE-O-METER:

Comments

[genesisdesire]

She already fails because part of her name is Selene. That whole Serenity Selenity Serena Selene whatever shit, I dinnae care, it makes an automatic sue to me.

Oh. And this is priceless.

"Leena Selene, you are so mean"

Way to be witty in your insults there, Suethor. You rhyme and hurt the little sue's heart! Aww.

:sporks:

[schmoo999]

I am just disappointed that she didn't name her Leena Selena..now that would...nah..it would still be another stupid blonde sue. Though the rhyming name would have been a good giggle.

And I think they have to put a note to claim their sues cause they obviously steal the sues from each other hence the sameness..am I making any sense or did reading this make my brain go fizzzzzz?

[schmoo999]

I also have to say WTF is this??

Then when the silence was exploding his mind, he was the first to talk.

Poor Sirius. His poor mind.

[starlights_1]

That made sense. I thought it was to stop "plagiarism" of their OC's. Which is kind of ironic when you think of the fact that it's on a fan-fiction site. Those "disclaimers" bother me in general, always have.

[valis2]

The headed into the direction of the Library, and Leena stopped suddenly.

The un-headed just fell over, lacking the mental capacity to direct their ambulation.

[volandum]

Nice.

On the unoriginality of Suefic.

[kylegirl]

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]

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

Re: On the unoriginality of Suefic.

[phaballa]

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]

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

[khym_chanur]

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?

Because their Sue is so amazing that people would be tempted to "playjerize" the character, thus the Suethor marks her teritory.