Things I Wish I Could Tell Reviewers Like a Total Jerk
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- Neat.
- LOL
- Hey, this was a really cool story. I have a story called ". . .," could you give it a chance?
- Why do you Americans insist on spelling your words so differently?
- Change your story, or I'll leave!
- You shouldn't have published all of the chapters all at once.
- This is so obvious that she's your idealized avatar of yourself! You may as well just call her a Mary-Sue and delete the story.
- Get some proof before you start making up your own connection, and
- there isn't anything wrong with writing self-inserts whether it be in part, or be an entire self-insert.
- Oh my god! Mary-Sue alert!
- I am enjoying this story, but, and I hate to say this, your main character is a Mary-Sue because:
- She's oviously a self-insert.
- She's paired up with a canon character who already has a love interes, and even has a kid with them.
- She is related to a canon character.
- The story focuses on your OC too much.
- She has super-model beauty, is smart, and has all of these powers.
- She has no flaws or weaknesses.
- She's too genetically diverse.
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Are you gonna actually say anything? I can't tell if that's a I-like-this-story emote, or a it's-an-OK-story-but-I-don't-want-to-point-out-any-errors-and-be-a-bad-guy emote.
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*Face palm*
Really? I worked on this story for five years, had to fix the italics and center alignment four times, and all you can say to me is "neat"? Really?
I'm pretty sure this story wasn't meant as a comedy.
Do you know why there are review boxes? Here's a hint: it's not there for you to advertise your stories! They're to show the good and bad of this story. If you want to place an ad, go to the forums, send a private message, chat up some random person and slip it into a conversation, but do not disrespect me on my space by taking the focus to your story when the reviews should focus on mine. Maybe if we actually became friends who actually have conversations with that I would tolerate this, and even read said story, but not from one-time hot-shots who only tells me my story is "cool." Trust me, I have plenty of those people already.
How dare you be rude to me! You're lucky I put in a comment at all.
Oh, so you only said the first sentence on a whim? To be honest, I would have been luckier if your advertisement was paid for. I could have pushed the report button and called it spam. Too bad I can't just delete comments on some sites.
Why do you insist on sticking a 'u' in random words and use single quotes for dialogue?
Because that's how I was taught.
Exactly.
I bet you'd leave even if I did change it.
Why not? The series was finished.
You should have eased the chapters in after a period of a few weeks so people don't get overwhelmed.
Just because I publied all twenty-five chapters in one day doesn't mean I'm forcing people to read it all in the same day. And what of people who find the series after the few weeks and it's already completed. Would they feel overwhelmed as well? That makes absolutely no sense.
It shows that the odds of having edited your work is nil.
Why don't you tell me whether or not I've edited my work while you're here instead of spouting off that kind of nonsense. The first chapter alone was sitting in my folder for well over a year, constantly being edited and worked onto and reworked, and I do that for all of my chapters, from start to finish. Publishing the entire story all in one day doesn't prove anything. I dare you to tell me this is a first-draft-unedited garbage.
How long have we known each other?
Since the first message.
Have we ever met in real life?
No.
So you really don't know me, right?
That's right.
So how can you say that the cahracter is an idealized avatar--may as well call it a glorified self-insert--and yet have never met me?
Oh my god! A troll who can't explain their opinions without lazy and vague shortcuts alert!
See the second review above this one.
This is fan fiction. I don't have to follow the canon material. I enjoy writing CanonxOC pairings, so the OC will be a main character. Of course I'm going to take the time to focus on the OC. It's called development. There's nothing "Mary-Sueis" about that.
So there's no one in the universe who can have beauty, brains, and brawn? You act like that saves the character from having to face conflicts and challenges in the story. It doesn't.
There is more to flaws and weaknesses than just physical marks or bad grades or having depression. The flaws show over the course of the plot and character arc. I'm not just going to point-blank hand you a list of supposed "flaws."
What? Are people going to self-destruct or die if their ancestors came from every time-zone? As long as it makes sense and the fractions are correct, I don't care.
You know what? Don't bother continuing with this list because of course my character would sound bad with a list of everything you think is wrong with the character and why you think she's a Mary-Sue without taking into account any context the story gives. Your basing your entire opinion on a copy-and-pasted list of "Sue traits" without a single critical brain cell in your skull. These points are shallow, and I could defend my character until I'm blue in the face, but what's the point? You're stuck in your little box with paper-thin walls made out of what other people have said about Mary-Sues without an original thought of your very own. Have you ever asked yourself why it is I made my character this way? How my character has developed and changed throughout the story? No, you probably haven't. You probably just said to yourself, "Hey, this character has x, y, and z, so she must be a Mary-Sue" without a second thought.
And aside all of that, even if you think my character is a Mary-Sue, you claim to still like my story. So, what, are you admitting you have shitty taste?
I don't trust anyone's opinion on Mary-Sue, but my own.
What makes you think your opinions on Mary-Sue is the right one?
What makes you think your opinion is right?
Because this is what everyone says is a Mary-Sue.
I don't, and none of your points match what Paula Smith has said qualifies as Mary-Sue.
Who?
Seriously? You don't even know the name of the person who coined the term! Get lost.