: Monday, April 21, 2008
- boomshadow: Mary Sues and Gary Stus in Various Continuities - If you have read science fiction and fantasy for any length of time at all, you have no doubt run into the occasional Mary Sue or Gary Stu: a character created as a vicarious means of wish fulfillment for the author. -
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fluterbev: Meta: Feedback as currency - Feedback is often said to be the only payment a fanfiction writer receives for their craft, and I wonder sometimes if that commonly expressed adage is at the root of some of the misunderstandings which arise between readers and writers in fandom. -- languisity: Don't drink the water. Don't you breathe the air. - Pete suddenly has a vag and now he can tell Madonna that yes, he does know what it feels like for a girl[...]yes, women sometimes just want to fuck. Or that we feel unsafe about X and Y and Z[..]Which got me to thinking[..]what if there was race!swap fic? -