Lily Evans and her perfect posse of pretty patrons(incidentally all named Sue....coincidence?)

[miss_xdivine]

Well. Now you've recovered from my awful alliteration (^_^)....
I've just had the 'pleasure' of reading a fic mentioned by

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[cgn]

*applauds* You're so damn right! Gouge, gouge! It is that painful to read those kinds of stories, and you've so eloquently put it into words for me. Well done! I especially liked the sale announcement. I've been meaning to buy one of those to sacrifice, and as long as they're on sale...

*mutters about stupid Planks with their stupid and obscene number of reviews*

[miss_xdivine]

Hehe! When I was typing this, my face my inches from the screen and my fingers were going a mile a minute. I was possessed! Gah, and when those 'authors' *snorts* get so many reviews, it makes me think of how unfair it is that people who have amazing stories don't get as much recognition! The sale announcement was inspiration from an advert on the T.V ^_^

[cgn]

Wouldn't it be nice if such fics inspired us to write good stories instead of just ranting? Because that would be excellent. I seem to run across enough fodder...
They get entirely too many review. I want to stab them with knitting needles! Gah! (And in my mind, that's what I'm doing right now...)

[miss_xdivine]

Hahah you and your violent mind! Huzzah for knitting needles, the answer to all our torturing needs. I think this ranting malrkey is long overdue! It may show people that our favourite characters are being abused :( Those authors should join instant!love in that black hole we talked about.

Speaking of instant!love, I cant wait for your rant!

(!!!Its the return of the exclamation marks!!!)

[timetraveled]

Named them either some strange exotic name (created by shoving together their own name and that of a best friend) or a name which they've read on somebody else's story and stolen for themselves as it sounds canon (Emmeline, Hestia, Arabella etc).

There is so much truth behind that sentence, papoose. In that 'ice queen' fic you nearly projectile vommited over, did you catch the names?

Lara Krystal, ARABELLA Finds and Lindsay MOMENTO.

Momento? Am I the only one who finds that plain ODD and unbelievable? Lindsay = fair enough. But MOMENTO? Is that her surname because she could be described as a momento of pure beauty--

'She was beautiful...Oh, nevermind, the author states she is indeed beautiful, crazy, hyperactive, has a feiry temper despite the fact that Lily is also apparently mentioned on having one (and we all know Lily's friends need to be individually different with their wacky coloured hair and diverse personalities) also tomboy-ish, has the perfect family life, no worries, always stands up for her friends--hell, she sounds

[miss_xdivine]

If there were people who were actually like 'dear' Lara Krystal *bleurgh*, Arabella Finds *bleurgh* and Lindsay Momento *bleurgh!* then I'm afraid I would have to kill myself. There is nobody who could be that perfect, with perfect friends, perfect life and perfect bloody existence. If my friends were flawless I'd resent them. So I'm glad that they have their faults (even though sometimes I want to strangle them with my Flexi-ruler!)

[timetraveled]

I agree that I'd probably have to knife that particular perfect friend in her sleep for being so flawless.

Flexi-ruler! *gigles* I have one of those! My friend Nat and I bend them in Maths while the teacher stares absurdly at us.

[miss_xdivine]

Haha, they are useful for 'thwapping' people on the hand when they try and steal your book to see the answers! I also enjoy trying to fit it into my mouth during Latin...I don't think Mr Suta appreciates it all that much (especially when it fires out and lands on the carpet in a pile of saliva ^_^).

[dis_netis]

Its like you've physically removed my thoughts and written them down. Marauderettes! The Vixens! The sodding Pythons! The Anythings! It drives me insane! I tend to read about a paragraph then click on that lovely 'return' arrow on my keyboard. When it starts with the generic stupid-'exotic'-name!characters getting a 500 word description (including their specific height, because the reader really needs to know that) about their ravishing good looks I get the hell away from it quick before it explodes.

[miss_xdivine]

Hah! This rant was just dying to be written. I totally agree with what you've said ^_^. The beautiful green 'Go back one page' arrow is one of my life-savers. Without it, I would be subjected to the horror *shudders*.

I hate it when a whole chapter is just description of the various Sues/Planks. Some people could use that many words to create an amazing one-shot! (For example, Cath up there xD). Gah!

[dis_netis]

I figure that if someones reading fanfiction they are going to be familiar with the harry potter world. There is absolutely no need to go into boring extremely long and convoluted description about what each marauder looks like and his personality (and height)- WE ALREADY KNOW! Ah, that annoys me so much! When I see the first paragraph is just a description I just escape straight away because its just a sign of worse things to come!

[timetraveled]

I get what you mean; I have a real problem with reading over tedious descriptions of the characters, and with fanfiction I get bored too easily so a fanfic really has to have a good opening to get me interested.

[annabtg]

You know, one day I was making my way through various Mary-Sue tests, and I ran across a very useful piece of advice.

(It's been a while, so I can't remember it word for word... I'm just writing down the gist of it)

Just because an original character scores high doesn't mean they're a Mary Sue. Bono (the U2 singer) would score 82 on this test, but he's a real person. How you handle your OC can really make a difference.

I wish some authors knew how to handle their OC's...

See ya,
Anna.

[miss_xdivine]

Hey, that's some good advice actually. I suppose that it's the way that the characters are played out and the ways in which they interact.
I agree that if people handled these OCs differently, their apparent 'perfection' wouldn't be such an issue.

[dis_netis]

So thats why I don't like Bono! Bono's a Mary Sue! It all makes perfect sense!

I do agree with what you said about OCs though. I've written a few stories and try to keep them out of it all together- or, if they are needed, just keep them brief. I don't like reading OCs so I don't write them- its as simple as that!

[ghostofbambi]

Gah! Don't gouge your eyes out, gouge their eyes out! At least they wouldn't be prefect then..

She had waist length, fiery red hair, curves in all the right place, beautiful soft skin and holes where her eyeballs used to be...

Sounds pretty nifty.

Curves in all the right places... I mean honestly! Do the rest of us have curves in all the wrong places? Curved.. spines? Curved.. teeth? Curved.. fingers?

[cgn]

If they have curved spines, they should really see a chiropractor about that.

[ghostofbambi]

They should. It could be rather dangerous. I also imagine that curved teeth would be rather strange and unattractive..

[cgn]

"I hate flossing. I wish I just had one, long curvy tooth instead."

Oh, Mitch Hedberg. There's a quote for everything!