3344: School of Magic - Talia Potter

[pottersues]

Don't forget about the fanfic contest.
I think the writer of the link of the day proves the point she is arguing against rather then disproving it. Flashback Sue is a genderbender.

TITLE: School of Magic
PERPETRATOR: Foxy Talia Potter
SUE-O-METER:

Comments

[indigoneutrino]

The link of the day is written by, in my opinion, one of the best artists and one of the best meta writers on Tumblr. I'm on their side 100%. Shipping slash pairings doesn't make you silly.

[yemi_hikari]

I think their point was that females write male characters because they are allowed to do more then female characters and thus the writer can play in their mind the roles that they wouldn't normally be able to do with female characters. Since the writer leans towards liking males the wish fulfillment also leans towards the insert liking males. On top of this there isn't the inequality issues one gets to in het.

(Supposedly... not the way some writers happen to write slash though.)

By wish fulfillment and self insert I mean the good kind, the kind that naturally occurs with all writing. This is likely the best defense I've ever seen in regards to slashfic. I've seen to many justifying it by saying they write slash to support the LGBT community when they're really not.

[indigoneutrino]

All true, but I think the post was a gut reaction to being accused of being a silly, hormonal fangirl. Lord knows euclase gets enough abuse from trolls, and she always manages to write a well-constructed response despite the fact that it does get to her.

I realise I haven't even commented on the fic yet. I was going to after I read it, but I started and it just went on and on and on because the author didn't use chaptering correctly. I think I got to the point where it turned out the Sue was a natural fox animagus, rolled my eyes, and quit.

Also, what an unbelievably pretentious beginning. If you're going to start with a quote like that, it has to at least be tongue-in-cheek.

[pottersues]

I don't know what's sadder. The fact she gets called a "silly, hormonal fangirl" when she doesn't deserve to be called one, or that she is being called one because the "silly hormonal gangirls" yell the loudest and cause such sterotypes to occur. I'm glad I've more context for the post now.

Ah...

you mean... "Jean-Luc Godard: "A story should have a beginning, middle and an end, but not neccecarily in that order."

I wonder if the writer even understood what that quote even means. I hadn't caught that at all as I was floored that they considered their "chapters" a chapter.

[beacon80]

The whole deal with the snakes is eye-roll inducing.

[yemi_hikari]

I'm not sure why the writer thought it was something that could possibly work.