deceitful_hearts
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- Posted: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:27:55 +0000
Ok, before i get to ranting, I feel the need to explain my title (excuse and bad spelling, I've got a 101.7 fever, so i cant exactly focus too well on what i'm doing) In my home, we have a rule about milk: If you need another person to smell it, just throw it out. Now be honest, who really wants to smell their milk and get a wiff of something horrable. A similar thing applies to mary sues/cliches. Nobody wants to test their own character and face the fact that it SUCKS! So they get other people to tell them. Now, the only differance between that and milk is nobody will say "well, it's a bit off, but if you just sprayed some air freshener around, you wouldn't really be able to smell it" they are going to say "DUDE, THAT MILK SMELLS LIKE a**!", where with a mary sue, people tend to sugar coat it with sugestions that probobly wont work. If the plot revolves about her being an OMGTEHMAJIK princess named Hixaru Rosa Uki takahashi the fair with eight wolves (one for every color of the rainbow) a perfect figure, a huge chest, perfect grades and a billion princes looking to marry her who angsts over her brother who nobally died in war, Changing her name, the color of her wolves, and giving her some small flaws probobly wont help. Now, if somebody said that you milk smelled like a mule's a** (hehe...mule...a**...a mule is an a**..) and tells you to toss it out, you arent going to call them an evil person and threten to kill yourself. Yet i've said to a few people "your character is really suish, you might want to just scrap them" and they've thretened to report me for trolling.
Now, spraying air freshened isn't going to make your milk not smell like a**, its just going to make the room not smell like the milk that smells like a**. Likewise, giving your character a few stupid flaws (a smell scar, a white stripe in her hair related to her OMGTRAJIK past, the inability to make a good blueberry muffin) will not make her good. Infact, sometimes its the way you wright a character that maker him/her suck. Their is a differance between "waving, smooth locks the color of the noonday sun" and "bleach blond hair". But even changing some wording will usually not redeme a sue. Again, changing a sue usually means scrapping young Hixaru Rosa Uki takahashi and basically replacing her.
So before you ask somebody to smell your milk (or give an opinion of what you fear may be a suckish plot/character) sniff the milk yoursell (or use a magic thing called a mary sue litmus test/honestly review yourself as if you were reviewing the work of your worst enimy/rival) it'll be easier to face the fact that the milk smells like a**/your character sucks.
Now, spraying air freshened isn't going to make your milk not smell like a**, its just going to make the room not smell like the milk that smells like a**. Likewise, giving your character a few stupid flaws (a smell scar, a white stripe in her hair related to her OMGTRAJIK past, the inability to make a good blueberry muffin) will not make her good. Infact, sometimes its the way you wright a character that maker him/her suck. Their is a differance between "waving, smooth locks the color of the noonday sun" and "bleach blond hair". But even changing some wording will usually not redeme a sue. Again, changing a sue usually means scrapping young Hixaru Rosa Uki takahashi and basically replacing her.
So before you ask somebody to smell your milk (or give an opinion of what you fear may be a suckish plot/character) sniff the milk yoursell (or use a magic thing called a mary sue litmus test/honestly review yourself as if you were reviewing the work of your worst enimy/rival) it'll be easier to face the fact that the milk smells like a**/your character sucks.
