"Sally M" smanton@hotmail.com wrote:
Nicola wrote: <You amaze me! Star 4 is one of the zines I've bought, and I assumed from your wonderful Christmas story in it, and those I've found on-line, that you were a very experienced writer.>
<grin> you're too kind, but then you haven't *seen* the half-finished burbles on my half-drive (or still in my head) that I mentioned. Though I still have a fondness for the blatant Mary-Sue fantasy (unwritten, of course
- doesn't everyone have at least one?) where the Original Female Character
(small, round, clutzy, absent-minded, makes Vila look brave) loses Orac's key, breaks her teleport bracelet, loses her teleport bracelet, loses all the teleport bracelets, breaks Orac, loses Avon, breaks *Zen*, loses the entire crew ... and never does recall the vital piece of information which both the good guys and the bad guys are trying to get from her :-)
I would say that she is not a Mary Sue, but a different sort of character perhaps?
Jacqui
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 04:51:42PM -0500, jacquispeel@netscape.net wrote:
"Sally M" smanton@hotmail.com wrote:
<grin> you're too kind, but then you haven't *seen* the half-finished burbles on my half-drive (or still in my head) that I mentioned. Though I still have a fondness for the blatant Mary-Sue fantasy (unwritten, of course
- doesn't everyone have at least one?) where the Original Female Character
(small, round, clutzy, absent-minded, makes Vila look brave) loses Orac's key, breaks her teleport bracelet, loses her teleport bracelet, loses all the teleport bracelets, breaks Orac, loses Avon, breaks *Zen*, loses the entire crew ... and never does recall the vital piece of information which both the good guys and the bad guys are trying to get from her :-)
I would say that she is not a Mary Sue, but a different sort of character perhaps?
Yes, it isn't a Mary Sue, that's a "self insertion" character.
The classic Mary Sue is too perfect to be true.
Kathryn Andersen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- GIGO - Garbage In, Gospel Out.
Incidentally, re the original question - personally, I don't read web fic. I did try a couple of sites when I was first online, but found it an unsatisfactory way to read, so in the past few years I've only done it if someone specifically requested me to go and look at a story. I try to keep up with the fiction posted to Freedom City - current backlog goes back to March, though when I'm less busy I read some of it as it comes through. But I do continue to buy a few zines, which I can catch up on when I have some spare time, especially on trains. There have been a few recently that I just *have* to own, whether there's time to read them in the foreseeable future or not, because of the covers, eg TOFPA and I, Mutoid.
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