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November 8th, 2004 09:01 pmMary Sueage thingy, huh?
Sadly, nothing in the HP fandom. I did too much reading here, before writing ANYTHING.
But there is this one . . . Okay, I read all the Tarzan books, all twenty-four or whatever-the-count-is, but I never even looked up the Tarzan fandom. This was in my pre-fandom years. I did, however, write this huge seventy-page (the longest continuous piece of writing EVER, for me) story about Tarzan's granddaughter, Tarra. Who was very Mary-Sue-ish, even though she didn't actually interact with canon characters (well, barely) and so could scarcely be accused of twisting them to suit her own self.
She had a supporting cast of a lioness, an ape, and a five-member human family, one of whom would eventually be her love interest. This guy was actually quite wimpy, especially when compared to Tarra, who had lived with her animal friends in the jungle since age four. The whole thing was on some level a protest against Edgar Rice Burroughs's persistently chauvinistic ideas about women, and anything Tarzan could do, Tarra could do better. Mom had the unenviable task of gently telling me that it was sort of unrealistic for my heroine to singlehandedly strangle two lions at the same time.
Sadly, I don't have any of it here, or I would share an excerpt; it's still on my computer at home in Alaska, but I'm in Wisconsin. I didn't foresee any need for it, strangely enough. ;)
Sadly, nothing in the HP fandom. I did too much reading here, before writing ANYTHING.
But there is this one . . . Okay, I read all the Tarzan books, all twenty-four or whatever-the-count-is, but I never even looked up the Tarzan fandom. This was in my pre-fandom years. I did, however, write this huge seventy-page (the longest continuous piece of writing EVER, for me) story about Tarzan's granddaughter, Tarra. Who was very Mary-Sue-ish, even though she didn't actually interact with canon characters (well, barely) and so could scarcely be accused of twisting them to suit her own self.
She had a supporting cast of a lioness, an ape, and a five-member human family, one of whom would eventually be her love interest. This guy was actually quite wimpy, especially when compared to Tarra, who had lived with her animal friends in the jungle since age four. The whole thing was on some level a protest against Edgar Rice Burroughs's persistently chauvinistic ideas about women, and anything Tarzan could do, Tarra could do better. Mom had the unenviable task of gently telling me that it was sort of unrealistic for my heroine to singlehandedly strangle two lions at the same time.
Sadly, I don't have any of it here, or I would share an excerpt; it's still on my computer at home in Alaska, but I'm in Wisconsin. I didn't foresee any need for it, strangely enough. ;)
