Thalia Rhodes

[potcsues]

Late, but who's counting.

TITLE: The Price of Everything
CULPRIT: DarkRosaleen
SUMMARY: "A girl desperate to escape the place she's in and trained to seduce men. She is the key to Jack's finding the biggest treasure in the sea. Oh what should he do? NOT A MARY SUE! Revamped and will add more soon!"
BEST LINE: "Look luv, none of this has anything

Comments

[fallofrain]

NOT A MARY SUE!

Why do they always put that on the stinkiest of Sues out there?

My god, when I saw your blurb in marysues, I had to come look and I think I need a spork, like NOW. I've seen some pretty god awful Sues before but /this/ is ridiculous.

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[potcsues]

Why do they always put that on the stinkiest of Sues out there?

Because they believe that if they say it, it must be true. I have an entire folder dedicated solely to all the horrendous Sues that claim not to be Sues.

I, however, don't bother with the ones that proudly proclaim they are, indeed, Sues. They annoy me a little too much. I always get an overwhelming desire to hunt the author down and shake her.

There are some things of which you just shouldn't be proud.

[geeksicle]

It's generally against my own personal rules to go and flame people after seeing their stories on marysues as it somehow feels unfair. But using rape as a plot device - ESPECIALLY a romantic one - makes me want to tell this little bitch exactly what I think of her and her suck-ass story.

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[rokeby_venus]

If envy was really a deadly sin, people like you wouldn't be allowed to run around Livejournal sporting such brilliant icons. I am unutterably jealous.

[farmercuerden]

And here's me thinking that anyone who was educaed during that period would have learned Latin and Greek. So, let's have him kill the Sue, get some wizened old scholar... but then, of course, as the treasure is completely meaningless except a s an excuse to get the Sue on board, it'd have to become a slash fic.

[ganeris]

"As it happens, love, I can read Greek myself, since I've spent most of my life knocking around the world. So I don't really need you, particularly." So saying, Jack skewered the girl, mildly amused at the bovine expression on her Suey little face.

Rapist!Jack, indeed.

[agnes_bean]

Where did my lovely Jack go? WHERE DAMMIT!?

Well, well, well what have we here?
“Sandy Claus huh? Oooo…I’m really scared.”

She thought back on Jack and figured well she could've done worse
Actually, she couldn’t have done much better. After all, Jack is Johnny Depp in eyeliner. I want to be his personal whore, dammit!

Jack was drunk, drunk and dangerous
As far as I remember, when Jack was drunk, he was still rather docile, just loud about (think with Elizabeth on the island).

And there’s no way in hell she’d be a virgin. If that whore house is so damn good, than all the whores must get a LOT of practice before they were put on the market.

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[collie_wing]

I hate it when people use rape as a plot device to make their characters teh angst. I mean, if it was THEM and it REALLY HAPPENED, they'd have a whole different outlook on the situation and not take it so lightly.

And why in God's name do so many sues use Sparrow!Rape?? Seriously, he's just not the type. I wouldn't put it past some of those dudes on Barbossa's crew, but not Jack.

Grugh, may I please have some Clorox for my brain? I need to melt the part that knows how to read.

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[genarti]

Totally agree. Some of Barbossa's guys -- which means former crewmen of Jack's -- are certainly plausible rapists. Heck, some of Jack's current crew probably are; we had no indication of it from any of them who actually had dialogue, but that's not necessarily complete enough to tell, and there were plenty who didn't even get that much characterization.

But Jack? Not a chance. He likes subtle headgames, which is why he's such a fun character. He'd tease a girl until she blushed and stammered, for the fun of it, and leer and drop innuendos just to see her squirm, and he'd definitely take whatever was freely offered. But rape? No way.

[hasunoutena]

Is dialogue always written like that in PotC fics? Because after I read the snippets of that fic, I can't get the Scottish accent out of my head. I'm sure that wasn't the intention.

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[potcsues]

Well, not always.

Some people just don't feel like bothering with anyone having an accent at all and get caught up in making everyone speak "proper" English. Unfortunately, to make someone speak proper English one needs to have paid attention in an English class at least a few times in the course of their lifetime, so that never turns out well either.

It's very rare that someone just alludes to an accent, like people who know what the fuck they're doing do when writing accents in fiction.