Knowing when to just keep your mouth shut
May. 7th, 2007 07:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So, is there any polite way to tell a fic writer, "My, you seemed to have based your entire fic around a huge honkin' Mary Sue" or do you just assume they don't really want to know any better and remember to avoid any future fics by that writer?
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Date: 2007-05-07 04:15 pm (UTC)As a rule, because of exactly that problem, I avoid any and all fan fiction. If you were really good, you'd be working at the show. Since you're not, why bother?
But that's just me... ;-)
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Date: 2007-05-07 05:49 pm (UTC)*Gives up, deciding the probable stroke isn't worth it*
Though the web would certainly contain a lot less wank ...
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Date: 2007-05-07 06:43 pm (UTC)And it wouldn't be a stroke - try a day without it. If you don't have a stroke then (which you won't), then try another day. And another... It's kinda easy after a while.
Besides, then come the dreams... and those are really fun!
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Date: 2007-05-07 07:25 pm (UTC)And that's in one relatively minor field. If I wanted to get really into it I could start talking about the influence of Sherlock Holmes pastiches and Cthulu Mythos fiction. Short version: if you don't care for fanfic, fine, but at its roots it doesn't deserve to be disparaged out of hand.
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Date: 2007-05-07 05:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-07 05:58 pm (UTC)And I'm spending the bulk of my time in DF fandom these days, but beyond that I'm not sayin' nothin'. :P
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Date: 2007-05-07 06:28 pm (UTC)Exactly.
While I agree with that assessment, the fact that she ultimately ended up with no real connections to any of the ongoing characters balanced that out enough.
OK, yeah, I can see that. Luckily, I wrote my Mary Sues waaaay before the creation of LiveJournal, so nobody ever saw mine. *g*