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2010-04-12 01:39 pm
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Fuck you, she's awesome: original character edition

I had a dream last night that I got an arranged marriage! It was very odd.

Anyway, I did some reading this morning, courtesy of [personal profile] glass_icarus, about the concept of Mary Sue. While there can be times that the wish fulfillment factor skeeves me out - case in point, Twilight - I agree that it's pretty ridiculous how fandom leaps to ascribe the term to any pretty/badass/capable female character there ever was.

So then I got to thinking! By these standards, almost all of my female characters would qualify as Mary Sues, wouldn't they?

Here's why my female characters are Mary Sues:

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See? When you look at it that way, I write nothing BUT Sues! Pretty awesome, huh?

EDIT: Aw man, I forgot Ginny, Sola, and Terese. Well, rest assured, they're Sues, too.