I'm getting 50 next Monday!

[wiseheart]

It's outrageous! Schocking! Depressing! Unbelievable!

So, cheer me up! I want, just this one time in my pretty unspectacular life, to have posted a LJ entry that gets so many comments that after a while they only appear as subtitles on the comments page.

So, give me this gift. Send people my way in cyberspace. Talk to me about everything and nothing - as long as it raises the count. lhun_dweller might remember about that dream of leaving a supermarket with a full shopping cart - just once.

Yes, it's silly, I know. But honestly, it costs you not "a weary cent", as the Germans say, and I'd like to have this so badly, just this one time. And since it's highly unlikely that I'd manage to reach my goal by posting astounding fanfic or simply interesting topics, I have to use more drastic methods.

The audience room is open till October 9, which is my 50th birthday. Come in, have a good time and talk to me!

Edit: And if you want to know what are we going to eat on the RL party on Sunday, check out my next entry. *g*

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[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

If you want to confess, I'm entertained :)

All right, you asked for it...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Deep Space Nine:
Mary Sue is a failed Bajoran monk (a female one), with surpsising similarities to my own faild attempt to become a nun. In fact, I wrote this piece to deal with the trauma of having to leave the convent, and another one where I was physically attacked in the parrish church office.

Original Trek (Lost Years series):
The Sue in this one is actually a Tellarite (you know, the pig-headed aliens) who shows lowly humans how wrong it is to ridicule someone because of their appearance.

Babylon 5:
It's actually a canon character: the canonically female Pope of the B5 universe.

LOTR ficdom:
- Mary Sue #1 was a red-haired female Elf, complete with tragic past, in undying love with Legolas (who else?). To my defence, I've conceived her back in the early 1970s. I know better now.
- Mary Sue #2 is married to Halbarad.
- Mary Sue #3 has a bastard child with Boromir.
- Mary Sue #4 is a female Blue Wizard.
- Mary Sue #5 is the Frustrated Fanfiction Author from "The Joys of a Beard".

Actually, although all these are self-insert characters, I don't really think that any one but #1 is really a Sue. The same is true for the sci-fi self-inserts above. But again, one person's genial OC is another person's Mary Sue, so we can never be completely sure, right?

Re: All right, you asked for it...

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

Wife of Halbarad, Boromir's lover, and probably even the lost Blue Wizard sound like reasonable OFCs to me. Elf with a tragic past... one of those phases we all have to go through.

I've no idea what's generally considered Sueish in the Trek fandom. At least the pig-headed aliens probably don't have red hair :)

Re: All right, you asked for it...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with red hair anyway? I do find it pretty - as you know from personal experience, I even occasionally colour mine red... well, what's left of it, anyway. *g*

Re: Sue in the Trek fandom
It's an interesting question, actually. Especially considering the fact that the original Mary Sue had her debut in an Original Trek piece. Besides, if you take, for example, Voyager, some canon characters do have pretty strong Sue-ish traits, haven't they?