Okay, so this is an age-old rant for me. I can't count the reviews I've gotten where all that is written is "Mary-Sue." Now, because they are often anonymous and only say that, I can only infer that they mean to say "She's a Mary-Sue because she's an OC (original character)." How wrong is this? Seriously?
Let me define Mary-Sue, roughly. A Mary-Sue (male counterpart: Gary-Stu) is someone who is so incredibly perfect and everyone loves her or she's so deliberately anti-whatever that she stands out in a crowd. Now, I'll admit, I've got a couple of characters I'm still writing for that are, admittedly, Sues. I accept that. Really, I do. The stories they're in were started fairly early into my fanfiction career when I was still too much of a fangirl. However, the one review that I got (I've removed it because of its stupidity...again, all it said was "Mary-Sue" and was anonymous) that spawned this rant was on a story that the character couldn't be further from a Sue. She's inexperienced, so you actually get to see her acquire any strength that she has through training. She doesn't win every fight. She's fifteen, so I've kept her at that exact emotional level (and I'm 23, so I've got a good prospective on this, having been there and done that). I'm 16, not including the Prologue which featured the character's mother, chapters into this story when I received this review. Do you want to know how far this idiot read? Three chapters...including the prologue. Do you want to know what has happened by chapter 2 (which is where he stopped)? She found a book. That's...it. In the prologue, I reveal the mother's past which led to the situation that the main character finds herself in (that is, with no experience). In chapter one, the main character finds a book in a place where her mother told her not to go (kids do this, you know!). And in chapter three, I'm with canon characters!!! How the hell do you get Mary-Sue from this? You don't even know anything yet!
Sigh. Anyway, this is my rant on Suedom...thanks for reading! Gotta go finish packing and eating!
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Purpose to Blog
Paticia's Work Status:
Lit. Crit Paper and Presentation: Done
Finals: Working on them.
Summer Jobs: 2
Now, before I continue with my blog, let me stop and do something for the Pub 2009 Challenge I am currently participating in. I've read my first Pub Book, Hideyuki Kikuchi's Vampire Hunter D: Volume 12 Pale Fallen Angels Parts 3 and 4. So, in honor of this book, here's my review for it.
Picking up where Parts 1 and 2 left off, D and his troupe finally make it to the city they've been seeking. Although D's contract is now fulfilled (and we all know D's all about the contract), his job is far from over. The Baron, the vampire noble that D was hired by, goes to face his father, while D sticks around to see how things turn out (not to mention, he's taken up on a contract by May, one of the girls that has been travelling with him). The Baron's vampire, the vampire lord Vlad who rules over the town, sends after D and the Baron with a whole new troupe of bad guys. Also, new allies are made as D and his group race to destroy Vlad once and for all. That is, unless the Destroy that is possessing the vampire Miska kills them all first.
So, I finished this book in like, two days. Loved it and I can't wait for volume 13, out this October!
Continuing on, I've been thinking about this blog, wondering what it is that I should blog about. Most people have a sort of theme for their blog...their personal lives, crafts, cooking...I've run across several. Now, although my life will continued to be blogged about in this place--since it is The Trishverse (i.e. Trish's 'Verse)--I think the purpose of this blog may come to serve something that I do often in real life and have done rarely here. I'll rant about my writing and my love of fandom! After all, those are two of the most important things in my life, following after my loved ones, that is.
So, my purpose to blog? Finally found it...and I'm surprised it's taken me this long. I'll be back later, possibly tonight, tomorrow, or Monday, with my first fandom blog!
Kidnapped by Alucard, D, and the Winchester Brothers in Order to Defeat True Evil,
Trish
Lit. Crit Paper and Presentation: Done
Finals: Working on them.
Summer Jobs: 2
Now, before I continue with my blog, let me stop and do something for the Pub 2009 Challenge I am currently participating in. I've read my first Pub Book, Hideyuki Kikuchi's Vampire Hunter D: Volume 12 Pale Fallen Angels Parts 3 and 4. So, in honor of this book, here's my review for it.
Picking up where Parts 1 and 2 left off, D and his troupe finally make it to the city they've been seeking. Although D's contract is now fulfilled (and we all know D's all about the contract), his job is far from over. The Baron, the vampire noble that D was hired by, goes to face his father, while D sticks around to see how things turn out (not to mention, he's taken up on a contract by May, one of the girls that has been travelling with him). The Baron's vampire, the vampire lord Vlad who rules over the town, sends after D and the Baron with a whole new troupe of bad guys. Also, new allies are made as D and his group race to destroy Vlad once and for all. That is, unless the Destroy that is possessing the vampire Miska kills them all first.
So, I finished this book in like, two days. Loved it and I can't wait for volume 13, out this October!
Continuing on, I've been thinking about this blog, wondering what it is that I should blog about. Most people have a sort of theme for their blog...their personal lives, crafts, cooking...I've run across several. Now, although my life will continued to be blogged about in this place--since it is The Trishverse (i.e. Trish's 'Verse)--I think the purpose of this blog may come to serve something that I do often in real life and have done rarely here. I'll rant about my writing and my love of fandom! After all, those are two of the most important things in my life, following after my loved ones, that is.
So, my purpose to blog? Finally found it...and I'm surprised it's taken me this long. I'll be back later, possibly tonight, tomorrow, or Monday, with my first fandom blog!
Kidnapped by Alucard, D, and the Winchester Brothers in Order to Defeat True Evil,
Trish
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