Heyyy... beats waiting for the next VSDs.

[camwyn]

I've been poking around marysues, the Mary Sues community, and in the process found my way to the Mary Sue Society's web page. From there a few clicks got me down to the Lord of the Rings section, and as I was pawing through that, I found this little gem...

Nine Men and a Little Lady

The diaries of the Fellowship after they have been saddled with that most odious of creatures, the fangirl Mary Sue. Written as a warning to those who would insert themselves into the movie, but - I think - wonderfully funny. Since there's no new VSDs due out for a while, why not give it a look?

Comments

As ever, you are...

[quintus.livejournal.com]

... an education.

I now know what a Mary-Sue is. -erghle-

My own unwritten foray into the genre of adding characters to famous stories : 'Quintus hides under a table in The Prancing Pony until it all goes away' would not be that exciting a read I suspect. THRILL as our hero tackles a beer bottle with a Swiss Army Knife (Which does not glow in the presence of anything except super-critical masses of Plutonium), GASP as the brave adventurer hides in the privies at the slightest mention of magic, TREMBLE as the bold outworlder explains the concept of 'force multipliers' to the local hobbit militia.

Re: As ever, you are...

[camwyn]

I've never actually attempted to add characters to famous stories or books or movies. Never could quite muster the guts. The one time I tried writing a Star Trek story, I created my own starship. (Freshman year in high school. As I recall, the captain was a Chinese-American woman named Ellen, the first officer was a big grinning human with a fondness for football, and the ship encountered a bunch of isolationist sentient dragons on a planet where people were trying to dig for artifacts.) There was just something in the back of my head that warned me I'd be in Very Big Trouble if I tried to muck with stories as they existed.

On the other hand, slapping someone on after the book ends... that's another story. As is rolling to disbelieve in sequels that turn up as real stinkers.

[ahmeemee.livejournal.com]

But whyyyyy were you looking for Mary Sues in the first place? Is it not enough that they accost you from all directions? Is it not enough that they come creeping up on you wielding giant bludgers? Why is it that you must seek them out?

[camwyn]

Well, given how little time I spend in reading fanfiction, the closest I ever come to encountering the creatures is in the form of RP twinks - and that's a different matter altogether, a separate breed of obnoxious creature. I thought it best I look for them in much the same way that a doctor thinks it best they look for colonies of disgusting micro-organisms... consider it a train-wreck sort of fascination, eh?