A Very Long Entry About Mary Sues

So apparently, there's this huge back-and-forth going on in fandom at the moment about Mary Sues and whether they are evil, good, bad, harmless, harmful, sent from the Pit to devour us all, or whatever. I should probably put a disclaimer here saying that I usually look at metafandom only to the extent of reading the little copy-and-pasted paragraphs they put in the link collection posts--those usually give you the gist of the post they're linking to. But this isn't really a response to the discussion that's been going on in fandom. It's just my thoughts on Mary Sue--as a fanfic writer and role player, of course I have them, and since it's raining and I don't want to think about my uni work, I will type them up.

( Mary Sues. )

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