to die for

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Can't. Stop. Laughing.

This is the best satire of a Mary Sue fic I've EVER read.

I love how everyone keeps getting the name mixed up. And the hair color. This is just way too funny.

It's written for LotR, but it makes sense for Self Insertions of ANY fandom.

Just... just way too funny.

Gimli's Journal
Great Hall of Moria, January 15, 3019

That was bloody pointless. I mean honestly, there are nine -- ten, okay, ten -- of us, and a million orcs, and a whopping great cave troll, plenty of good old-fashioned axe-fodder to go 'round, but then Little Miss "I'm Part Unicorn" goes all echo-y voice and "holy light" and off they bugger. Every last one. How's a proper Son of Aule supposed to avenge his kin when some poncy chick in chainmail decides to show off how wonderful she is and hog the lot?

I don't know WHO she's trying to impress. The elf is skittering around all bug-eyed like she's gonna eat him for breakfast, and the so-called king can't seem to decide if he wants to snuggle her or be valiant in front of her. Either way, I'm right sick of it. Gal has absolutely no taste anyway -- she's never looked at ME twice. I'm not sure if I'm insulted or bloody grateful...

Feh! The latter, I'd wager. Too much leg on her anyway. All tits, no muscle. Give me a nice brawny dwarf lass any day of the month. Why does everything revolve around HER? There's more important matters at hand--"
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Comments

[flickums.livejournal.com]

*chokes*

TOO funny!

Ye gods, I hate Mary Sue fics.

Classic!

(Half asleep so I can't come up with anything constructive)

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

:chortle: I know. You really have to be a fanfic fan to appreciate this.

Did you read the whole thing, on the link? You should--it's hilarious. Especially the Legolas parts.

Also:
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Galadriel's Journal
Lothlorien, February 15, 3019

Today the Fellowship moves on. A great evil passes from my domain, and a vast dank shadow lifts from the hearts of my people.

Oh, and the One Ring is leaving, too.
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[flickums.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I read the whole thing.

And it felt SO good for someone to let rip at Mary Sues.

I was trying to run a Final Fantasy VII PBeM a year or so back but gave it up due to the population consisting of the canon characters...and about 12+ Mary Sues.

The author of that fanfic deserves a prize of some sort.

Might I suggest some sort of anti-Mary Sue shield?

Perhaps Aragwen could present it to them.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I was trying to run a Final Fantasy VII PBeM a year or so back but gave it up due to the population consisting of the canon characters...and about 12+ Mary Sues.

I ran into this all the time in anime fic... especially anime with superhero teams, like Sailor Moon. You'd get this whole new cast of characters... like four to ten... and it'd be very confusing and they'd overtake the main characters... :sigh: I hate that. Original Characters can be a great writing devise in fanfic, but if they live/exist in the same time & place as the canon heroes (and are not, say, a Slayer set in the 12th century), then the OC should be there as a tool to say something about the hero-- as a symbol, or a villian... to be some literary device that propells the hero's story forward, not the OC's.

I do, however, like one-shots about OCs that represent part of the background, like the citizens of Sunnydale in BtVS. I love stories about them, because you the audience knows those townspeople are seriously wacky if they don't know by now about demons, so the funky little ficlets about the poor sap who inadvertantly finds out are really enjoyable. I rec'd a few days ago a BtVS story on ff.net called "Alison", which was about the girl Spike tried to bit in Smashed, and about her fiance. Heartbreaking little story, and a good example of how to build & effectivley use and OC-- even though that girl was on the show, we knew nothing beyond her hair color so the writer had to make up her character.

I also recently read a Buffy season 3 fic that could be construed as a Mary Sue, but somehow avoided being one. It's all told from the perspective of one of Cordelia's "Cordettes" that gets accident

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

....one of Cordelia's "Cordettes" that gets accidentally caught up in one monster fight, and afterwards isn't sure if she wants to be more involved with the SG, or walk away from their psychotic lives entirely. It was an interesting OC fic.