Re: OT: Harry

Indeed.  Thanks to that lovely Star Trek fanfic parody.

For those who want more, check these out:

http://www.merrycoz.org/papers/MARYSUE.HTM
http://missy.reimer.com/library/guide.html#5 ("Who is Mary Sue and Why Does
She Have to Die?")
http://www.fictionalley.org/primer/essays/ms.html
http://ljconstantine.com/column6.htm

>From the last, the five-second guide to Mary Suage:
"On the whole, Mary Sue fan stories tend to be written by new writers whose
first idea for a story follow a pattern of self-insertion (acting out their
personal fantasy vicariously through an original character), and their "Mary
Sue" characters suffer from the following characteristics:

-- She's perfect. Literally. Everyone likes her, she can fix the warp core
with a bobby pin and a smile regardless of whether or not she's an engineer,
she's got an excellent singing voice, and she's psychic too...
-- She's got violet eyes, martial arts training that makes Trinity from The
Matrix look like Elmer Fudd, hair down to there, and is usually sleeping
with or the daughter of someone we all know and love.
-- She's maverick, headstrong, stubborn, always wins in the end, and always
shows "them" how her way is better.
-- Regarding gender: Mary Sue is not an exclusively female phenomenon. Harry
Stu tends to be cocky, maverick, and has all the girls swooning while the
captain admires him for his courage, daring, cunning, swashbuckling,
computer hacking, and romantic abilities." (HE IS TOM PARIS... oh, wait,
sorry, I didn't mean to say that)


And for those who want to hear some fanfic-slashers-talk-to-each-other
convo, check this little beauty out (*cough*).  It's basically a list of the
worst mistakes and stupid things (done intentionally) that people make in
the genre.

http://www.trickster.org/fannishbutterfly/10_peeves.html

I keep this for when I need to take a vacation from reality.  It's a good
reminder of why I am the way I am (the discussion of the physics of well...
is... well...)

Sarah Marie Parker-Allen
lloannna@surfside.net
http://www.geocities.com/lloannna.geo
http://lloannna.blogspot.com

"Give 'em the old flim flam flummox;
Fool and fracture 'em;
How can they hear the truth above the roar?"
-- Razzle Dazzle/Chicago

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