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tenlittlebullets) wrote2007-03-22 07:55 pm
tenlittlebullets) wrote2007-03-22 07:55 pm
I knew there was a reason I had ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
metafandom on my friends list.
Two links, both from metafandom. I'd expound upon them, but I already have in the comments. ;)
1. On the nature of Sues - "Mary Sue, I hold, is the phenomenon that results when an author(broadly construed) writes one or more characters in such a way that the author and that character deny other characters the right to be central to their own stories. Everything else is merely incidental." This is a way more coherent, refined, and solid version of my theory on what makes a Sue a Sue.
2. Fanfiction as a dramatic (as opposed to literary) art form: Part One | Part Two | Part Three. Lots of really neat stuff; the bits about the physicality and the almost scriptlike aspects of fanfiction were intriguing, but what really got me was the exploration of repeated tropes and plot lines being related to fanfiction as performance art. "Once a story supplements canon -- giving us something the original source did not by filling in a missing scene, getting inside a character's head, interpreting or clarifying or departing from the story as originally told -- future supplements become inevitable, and they aren't any more redundant than multiple productions of Hamlet."
1. On the nature of Sues - "Mary Sue, I hold, is the phenomenon that results when an author(broadly construed) writes one or more characters in such a way that the author and that character deny other characters the right to be central to their own stories. Everything else is merely incidental." This is a way more coherent, refined, and solid version of my theory on what makes a Sue a Sue.
2. Fanfiction as a dramatic (as opposed to literary) art form: Part One | Part Two | Part Three. Lots of really neat stuff; the bits about the physicality and the almost scriptlike aspects of fanfiction were intriguing, but what really got me was the exploration of repeated tropes and plot lines being related to fanfiction as performance art. "Once a story supplements canon -- giving us something the original source did not by filling in a missing scene, getting inside a character's head, interpreting or clarifying or departing from the story as originally told -- future supplements become inevitable, and they aren't any more redundant than multiple productions of Hamlet."