[ SECRET POST #4831 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4831 ⌋

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Comments

[type_wild]

A Mary Sue litmus test needs little more than one question: Are you creating an OC and making her the main character of your fic that the canon cast is suddenly going gaga over? If so, maybe thing twice.

Another thing entirely is how Mary Sue is something that should've stopped being a problem twenty years ago. The term originated in zine fandom, when fic was rare and hard to come by and you took what you could get. While I GET that Sues are annoying, most online fandoms have fic enough around for the backbutton to be the perfect problem solver if you come across bad fic.

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A Mary Sue litmus test needs little more than one question: Are you creating an OC and making her the main character of your fic that the canon cast is suddenly going gaga over?

Thank you! It really bugs me the way mainstream audiences have appropriated an inherently fandom-based trope, completely failing to understand that "Original character in a fanfic" is an integral part of what a Mary Sue is.

[(Anonymous)]

A Mary Sue litmus test needs little more than one question: Are you creating an OC and making her the main character of your fic that the canon cast is suddenly going gaga over? If so, maybe thing twice.

Nah. Their audience is going to be limited because most fans are there for the canon characters, but wish fulfillment OC fics are a perfectly valid part of the fannish landscape, and aren't inherently worse than any other canon-warping wish fulfillment fic.