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full_metal_ox (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} full_metal_ox) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} unfunny_fandom, |
I have a great amount of sympathy with "Shut Up About Mary Sues."
Particularly given that the criterion thereof seems to have degenerated from, "Does the character threaten the ecology of the story?"--which is the only working definition that matters--to, "Is the character in violation of such-and-such arbitrary Literary Sumptuary Laws?" or even, "Does the character have the temerity to be breathing the same air as Bishie McHotstuff?"
Particularly given that the criterion thereof seems to have degenerated from, "Does the character threaten the ecology of the story?"--which is the only working definition that matters--to, "Is the character in violation of such-and-such arbitrary Literary Sumptuary Laws?" or even, "Does the character have the temerity to be breathing the same air as Bishie McHotstuff?"
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