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thesueclan · 4 years

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Hi, I know you guys say your submission box is open, but I just wanted to double check how active you guys were? I just scrolled through this blog, and funnily enough, it gave me flashbacks to my preteen days and being addicted to Mary Sue “critique” blogs then. When the community was at the peak, it actually inspired me to break through my self projection and make a more rounded OC. Going through this, I got reinspiried again, so do you guys still reviews or is it just limited to questions? :)

I’m not quite sure if Bunny mod is all that interested anymore, this blog has just kind of been sitting here for a long while. But if you want to send something in you’re free to! Maybe she would get a kick out of it, I know I would!

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thesueclan · 6 years

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not much of a submission, just dropping in to say thank you for this blog! you guys dont get the recognition you deserve, honestly. just going through this blog helped me flesh out my character in a way where im finally happy with how he turned out! you guys are very helpful and i hope you have a new years! (its 1:30am where i am hehe)

Mod Loli here!

This was, actually really surprising to see when I got home today.

Mod Bunny and I haven’t really done a lot on this blog in a long time and to see this really made my day, so here’s to hoping your 2018 is as sweet as this comment!

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thesueclan · 7 years

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In Response to Becca Lorenzo

@robin--bird

Bunny Mod

Tumblr doesn’t lend itself to these sorts of back-and-forth posts very well, but I’ll try my best to make my comments line up with the original post.

Now I *kinda* remember you, or at least I remember Becca *slightly* more. My actions/interactions in The Sue Clan are such a faint memory to me now. I should note that I also don’t remember very much of the Regular Show lore. I didn’t even finish watching it, but it doesn’t seem like any of that is going to be relevant for this overview.

Firstly your design. I do agree that it’s kinda weird for someone as young as the original Becca to be interested in Pops romantically, but I think that it comes from an infantilization of the character. It makes him seem younger than he actually is, and that can lead to some confusing and even worrisome implications for everyone involved (characters and creators). My stance on OCxCanon characters has softened quite a bit over the years, but it doesn’t change how weird this dynamic actually is, so I do think that it’s a good move to age her up a bit. I also like in that giving her a youthful personality and appearance, it puts her more on level with Pops as another childish entity. Kinda like a less cool Betsy Johnson.

Next, the bio. The name change is interesting since it now implies that Becca is of Spanish or Italian descent (although I guess “Luna” also implies Spanish descent). I also like that she’s actually not very good at what she does and I think that this would lend itself well to different character reactions, like how does she deal with the cakes coming out wrong? How do the people close to her react? How many times has she almost burned down her old shop? Etc.

But to comment on the angel thing: I don’t think that it would actually be out of place to have an angel as a character in Regular Show considering that Death and demons have made appearances as major characters in the show (and who knows, it’s possible that angels have actually appeared before). I think that it could be really interesting to come up for a backstory as to why an angel is on Earth in the first place. Assuming that an angel’s home in in heaven (an eternal paradise), why would one ever want to leave? Was it their own choice? Were they banished Satan-style? Etc. The half-angel aspect is a little eyebrow raising, but I still think that it could be developed into something that makes sense in context.

Moving on, her relationships with the other characters are fine. I find that this sort of thing is hard to comment on without seeing it in action, but the baseline is fine, and that’s all you really need for a character sheet.

I think that her affinity of the 50s is kinda odd though. I’m not too familiar with the decades myself, but I feel like the 50s was kinda a turning point from the whole housewife image with the second world war, the civil rights movement, and the space race and all. The 50s was a really turbulent decade, so saying that she has 50s viewpoints is a little too vague to give a good idea of her character. Was she a racist? Does she fear the communists? Etc.

Interracial marriage also wasn’t common in this decade, and as mentioned earlier her implied race is Spanish or Italian which further implies that her family are immigrants, so their family culture is probably a lot different than what one would imagine from typical “50s-era views”. However, I suppose since you do indeed make note that she was “raised to be a proper lady”, this has some very interesting implications as to become a proper American lady, her family likely tried to integrate into society the best they could, which in turn would gradually destroy their personal culture. So it makes me wonder what Becca’s relationship is with her original culture. Is she okay with the assimilation, or does she wish to get closer to her roots? It really is an interesting angle if you look at it that way.

But, I highly doubt that this is what you intended. I do realize that you admit to not having researched much about this era, but when you make assumptions about how the audience views that era and what they know about it, you leave a lot up to interpretation, and you really should know your character (even though she’s not technically yours) better than your audience does. Never let anything about your character be without reason.

Overall I think that you made an interesting take on the character, but there’s a lot of loose ends that need to be tightened up. It feels like you tried to add things to Becca to make her make sense, but in doing so you’ve raised questions about her that don’t have an answer. There are a couple of questions you should always be able to answer about your OC before you can even start to consider them complete:

Who are they? (Name, origins, abilities, appearance)

What are they like? (Personality, values, goals)

Why are they like this? (Backstory, relationships)

What is their current goal? (Motivation)

How will they try to get there? (Plot)

Becca seems to have quite a few gaps in those questions, but since she’s just something that you worked on for fun, I wouldn’t worry about fixing her too much. If any of my advice resonated with you about something in your character building process, I would take that to heart more than the specific comments.

Thank you for requesting a review. Please feel free to send us any further comments, questions, or concerns.

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thesueclan · 7 years

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(Bunny Mod: Posting this without my comments first because I don’t want to make an already long post longer. I’ll post my comments in a little bit!)

Thank God you don’t remember me. Our encounters weren’t that good, honestly.

I wanted to note that I didn’t do this out of spite for Becca. We might’ve not gotten along in the past, but I don’t feel anything for her anymore. I just did this to get out of my art block, and because it’s fun to draw/redesign Mary-Sue OCs. Also, keep in mind I haven’t watched Regular Show in about 2-3 years, so this info might be irrelevant/outdated.

Anyway, onto the story.

Design: Becca’s original design is pretty good, to be honest. If it weren’t for her hair color, she’d look like any other human in Regular Show. A bit plain, though. But I don’t think someone who is in their twenties (I’m assuming) would like to get into a relationship with an old person like Pops, unless it’s for money or something. It just looks weird. Even worse, considering he’s very childlike, and (I’m guessing) she’s supposed to be more mature than him. I decided to make her older– about 67 years old. That way their relationship would look less awkward (at least for me). I tried to make her look older, yet still beautiful. And her new attire was based off of 50’s women’s fashion. At first I thought it’d make her look too much like a old person trying to be young (which I was intending to do), but I think it looks lovely on her. As for her hair, I decided she would try to stay young (in appearance, that is), so she dyed her hair a “cool” color. Her favorite color, aside from pink, is blue (in my version) so she decided to dye it blue. (though, because of the lighting I used, it might appear purple)

Bio: Firstly, let’s get rid of the half angel/half human stuff, cause it doesn’t make sense to me. Instead, she’s just a human. I also decided to change her last name to Lorenzo because the name “Becca Luna” doesn’t sound that good, makes her seem even more sue-ish (to me), considering she’s supposed to be an angel.

Anyway, she doesn’t work at the park. She works at a bakery nearby the park. She loves baking sweets, and making her customers happy. Her bakery isn’t that famous, due to the fact that sometimes she’s too busy talking on the phone, interacting with customers, etc. that she forgets about the food and overbakes it. That usually leaves customers angry, and some tend to not give her another chance.

She sometimes visits the park, but doesn’t get along with everyone. She finds Muscle Man and Hi Five Ghost appalling, and she doesn’t like that Mordecai and Rigby slacks off and are too… dudebro-ish. She also thinks Benson should learn to control his temper some more, as well, but otherwise, she’s fine with him. While she thinks Pops can be a little childish at times, she enjoys his company and loves him with all her heart.

Despite her trying to stay young, appearance-wise, she misses the old days, and acts like a typical old-fashioned lady. She adores people with manners, dreams of being a house-wife, and all the things that comes with 50’s-era views. (I haven’t done too much research on that decade.) She was raised to act like a “proper lady” so she doesn’t tolerate Mordecai, Rigby, Muscle Man, and HFG’s behavior, but sees potential that M&R can change with time (unlike MM + HFG).

Unlike the original Becca, she doesn’t know Margaret, Eileen, Starla or CJ, and doesn’t care for them as she’s not too mindful with M&R’s activities. She does, however, feel bad that Audrey dumped him (for whatever reason), but blames it on Benson’s anger issues, reminding him that he needs to control it.

When she’s not working, she loves inviting her friends over and gossiping with them, knitting, watching videos and playing games on the internet, and watching TV.

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That’s all I have I think this story might be a little contradictory, what with her wanting to look young, yet have the personality of an old lady, but I didn’t know where to go with her character. Most of my characters are young, so I dunno how to write old people. I hope this was good, though, even if it strayed too far from the original Becca.

I tried to keep her love for Pops intact, because I personally don’t believe that shipping your OC with a canon character makes your OC a Mary-Sue, as long as it’s done right. Plus, it’s not inherently bad for her to visit the park sometimes, as long as she also has a life away from the park (which I hope she does– again, this isn’t my character so I don’t have too much planned for her). But I think her getting along with MM + HFG (and even Mordecai and Rigby) seemed too unrealistic, considering she seems too girly for people like that.

Feel free to point out what needs fixing. I’m not that good at developing characters, but I tried.

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thesueclan · 7 years

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Hey, it's-a-me. BrooklynneMoon from 2013. (Though I prefer to be called Robin and by masculine pronouns now.) Anyway, I have two questions. 1.) Is the submit box/Tumblr IM open? and 2.) Are you allowed to submit Mary-Sue redesigns? Because I recently made a redesign + improved bio of Becca Luna (out of boredom), and I wanted to see what you think. Of course, if you're not *that* type of blog, I understand. Otherwise, I deeply apologize for my past actions, and hope you have a good day!

Bunny Mod

Hello, it’s been so long I really don’t even remember who you are. Regardless, I’m glad that you’re doing well. This blog has been abandoned for a while now, but I’ll go ahead and answer your questions.

1) It looks like the submit box is closed. Since we’re not active, I must have shut it.

2) I suppose you can. We don’t really look at OCs anymore, but if you really just want some comments from me and/or Mod Loli, then we’ll be happy to take a look. I’ll turn the submission box back on just for today.

#robin--bird

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thesueclan · 8 years

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This is a sort of confusing question but do you know of any sources that is like a "cause and effect" list for personalities? Like a compilation of things like "having adult figures that are restrictive leads to distrust of adults" or "being attacked by a cat lead to a fear of them"? I wanna verify that my OC's past is affecting him as it should but I don't have much sources I can look at, since some of the things are really minor.

Mod Loli here!

There aren’t really any sources unless you wanna bury yourself in psychology stuff, but I can try to explain it this way: If you observe people, you can see common patterns of cause and effect in personalities, of course nothing is cut is paste with it so you just have to make a general observation on how certain things usually affect people, and go from there.

A good way to look your character over if you’re unsure, is to look at the situation they’re in and imagine how you or someone you know would react in a situation like that.

Think of every possible way that would be a normal reaction, If you’re hit you’re most likely to be either mad or sad, if you’ve just had a near death experience you’re more likely to avoid situations similar to the one that lead to that experience, if you’ve dealt with strict parents you could either turn into a perfect liar or be to scared to do anything that your parents had told you not to do in the past.

If you’re really unsure, you could ask a friend to look it over and have them tell you what could use work if it needs it, or if its fine. ( However, remember friends might be more likely to sugar coat things depending on who they are.) If you want it looked over, but don’t think you’re friend will give you a straight and honest answer, you can send it to our review blog or a blog similar to ours if you’re more comfortable doing so.

TLDR: Look at the general reactions people would have to the situation and go from there.

- Stay sweet!

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thesueclan · 8 years

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I was actually referring to a person guarding their emotions and such, but the bodyguard information was pretty helpful too! Thank you for answering so quickly.

Mod loli

Oh dear i’m sorry for mixing that up!For guarding emotions, typically they would have been hurt in the past, that’s usually what causes the guarding of emotions. Though there are instances when a person will do that anyway examples being:

- They believe they need to due to something they’ve seen happen to someone else.

- The media around them has taught them that they need to.

- A parent or guardian has taught them to do so.

There are more, but to guard ones emotions, generally they should have a good reason for doing so. There’s always a reason for the way someone acts after all.

#Mod loli #the sue clan #guarding emotions #Anonymous

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thesueclan · 8 years

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Does the character have to have something horrible happen to them to become guarded, or can it just be how they are?

Mod Loli here!I assume you’re talking about body guards, no, your character doesn’t necessarily need to have something horrible happen to them to need body guards. There are plenty of reasons a person might have body guards aside from something having happened to them in the past some examples are:-They are a very important person

- They are a very rich person

- They are the child, or someone close to, someone important or rich

- They have reason to believe someone is trying to hurt them

- They are very sick and need to be monitored

- They are considered a threat to someone else and need to be monitored

There are more, but those are just some examples, if you are worried that having this trait for your character might make them a Sue/Stu you are more than welcome to send them in to the Sue clan reviews! But if you aren’t worrying, I hope you have a lot of fun making your character!

Stay sweet!

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thesueclan · 8 years

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Mod loli here!

I Saw Bunny mod posted one of her old characters, so I decided I should probably post one of mine to! She’s my oldest character and I’ve revamped her many times.

This, is Lex. When I first made her I was about Ten years old and I had my first youtube account complete with Recolor pictures and “Music Videos” Of her.

When I found Deviantart, and Roleplay Groups: I was a little demon I swear. I would use her n almost every rp group regardless of the kind of group, and She always had some tragic story as to how her parents were dead and she was an abused orphan who killed everyone in the orphanage, and for some reason she had the power of fire, She also ran into a witch who ripped her eye out and put it back in before Lex (Who was supposed to be about Ten or so) Killed her. She was like a self insert of the kind of person I wanted to be, badass and taking shit from no one, she could also randomly jump in and out of wonderland and magically had an Uncle hat lived there because I thought it was so “ LOL XD RANDOMNESS” . However little angry me would get pissed if someone told me not to submit her to a RP group and I would go off on them, Its funny how that works out in the end. (Considering I’m a lot more polite these days.)

I think at one point I pressured someone into shipping their oc with her with out realizing it, and they ended up ditching the group we were in together, honestly I don’t blame them. I also think I made another person in that group uncomfortable because of how close Lex’s name was to their characters, but I didn’t mean for it to be that way, Lex was just a cool abbreviation of my name so I wanted to use it. I also used to try and RP with Everyone constantly, and some people actually bothered to do it, but I think that was because they would feel bad if they didn’t, they probably thought I had no friends or something.

As time went on, I revamped her many times for private roleplays with someone very special to me, and she is no where near what she used to be, thank god.

Well anyways, I hope more than just us two mods post these and show others these, Until next time; Stay sweet and don’t give up on what you love doing!

-Mod loli

#Mod loli #Memory lane #Memory lane event #Lex

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thesueclan · 8 years

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Bunny Mod

Long time, no see eh? Anyway, in celebration of the “Memory Lane Event” that’s being hosted by Mod Loli, I decided to dig up some of my own old OCs and put myself on the chopping block.

Or at least I would say that if I hadn’t purged my original dA account, so you’ll have to settle for a recreation of this character: Nekoko (I don’t remember her last name).

Although nearly all of my first OCs were bad/uncreative in some way (I even had an OC based on the Twilight hype from a while back even though I hadn’t read the original series), Nekoko is probably the first of them that was actually a Mary Sue. In terms of design, she was initially inspired by anime characters: Digi Charat and Kanade Jinguuji, characters from two shows that I watched a lot of as a kid, so she’s already got a negative point for being unoriginal.

Initially Nekoko was just an avatar (ironic since I was not a white/Japanese 18 year old with a green sweater, but a blasian 13-14 year old that wore almost exclusively t-shirts), but with time I decided to “flesh her out” into an actual OC.

In her first stage of development, she was just a fairly shy artist type that just sorta hung around my other OCs as the only human-like character (when I was a kid, almost all of my OCs were either hamsters or cats). But as I would develop that world, she would lean towards the more overpowered type.

There came a point where rather than this being an entire world, all of the characters were tenants at this giant mansion which Nekoko was the owner of. Thus began Nekoko 2.0.

Instead of creating a staff that would take care of the mansion, I thought that it would be a great idea if she had all of these special abilities to let her do it all on her own. So she was super nice, super strong, and super fast. Her only actual flaw was that she was poor at cooking because she had to make food around the clock for over 20-30 people a day, but even then the catch was that she was actually really good if she only had to prepare one or two meals. Otherwise she could solve every single problem that ever came up and was always understanding of an “evil” character’s situation. She was one of those classic “do no wrong” sorts of Sues and I’m kinda embarrassed to think about her.

I don’t think she was ever actually a “main” character and was just sort of written as an excuse to why the mansion could stay as kept up as it was without designing more characters, but she was still a Sue all the same.

I don’t know if there’s a place for her anymore in my lineup of “current” OCs since I’ve pretty much gotten over my “cat girl phase”, but it was kinda fun trying to remember anything about her. She’ll always hold a special place in my heart as the first OC that trended nearly every single one of my main protagonists having blue hair.

(Earliest found image of her, posted 3 years ago. But earlier iterations do exist.)

#bunny mod #Memory lane event #memory lane #nekoko

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thesueclan · 8 years

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Mod Loli: Hey there lovely followers! Mod loli here with a fun event for you all! The event: This event we want you followers to submit your old Sue’s and Stu’s, so anyone who’s new to making characters can see that lots of people have had Poorly designed characters when they start, and that its nothing to be ashamed of. You are also allowed to show off a newer more well developed character along with your old Sue/Stu if you want to! Recommended things to submit: - Pictures

- Character Bio’s

- Short stories You’re free to submit other things as well, but please keep to these rules:

-No smut

-No excessive gore

- Keep vulgar language to a minimum

- Only submit your characters, do not submit a character that belongs to someone else

- Have fun. This Event will be going until: March 12th. I would also like to remind you all: Character reviews are open, you just have to submit them to our Sue clan reviews blog which can be found on the blogs side bar. Alrighty everyone, Stay sweet! - Mod loli

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thesueclan · 9 years

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That was a great help thanks Bunny! (I also hope the way I worded my ask wasn't offensive, I was rushing) also, what are little things you can do to a character that makes them interesting? Is it in the way they act or how relatable they are that grabs people?

Bunny Mod

I don’t believe that it was offensive, but if it was then I apologize for not being up to date with what’s considered to be socially acceptable to say.

On to your question: My current character theory is that there are 4 key elements to a character that work in a sort of power triangle (with ability in the center).

The basic rundown is this:

Action: What they’ve done and will do. How they act.

Psyche: How they think and why. Their personality.

Appearance: What they look like and why. Character design.

Ability: Everything that your character can and can not do.

Each part plays a role in making a character engaging and relatable to the audience. If a single part is lacking, then the other parts need to be bigger to compensate for it.

Ex. A character whose appearance isn’t very interesting can still be an engaging character if there’s more emphasis on their psyche and/or actions.

People can be attracted/interested in a character for nearly any combination of those 4 things. Personally, I’m more initially attracted to psyche and appearance before I begin to appreciate the actions of the character, but there are some people that attracted to only personality first, or appearance and action, and so on.

But the biggest factor is that core element sitting in the center: ability.

What is your character capable of and what are they not? Even if the audience isn’t, you, should be aware of what your character can do and how they serve the plot. Knowing your characters’ limits can help keep you from making unnecessary characters that would otherwise take interest away from a character who could have easily fit that role.

Ex. We don’t need to add Charlie to a story where Alice is trapped but Bob can still free them. If Alice and Bob both had the inability to escape or help the other out, then Charlie would become necessary and thus interesting because we want to know how Charlie is going to save them and what kind of person Charlie is to want to save them in the first place. If we don’t get that development, then we’ll come to see Charlie as a tool for the plot rather than a character with motives and personality.

If you know the core of your character, then building the other three parts around that is all dependent on how you want the character to be perceived by the audience.

Those are the “little” things that can make your character more interesting. It’s not just action or making them relatable because action IS a part of being relatable, as are the other two parts. Making a character relatable is just a byproduct of making the power triangle work.

But making a relatable character doesn’t mean just making them relatable to the audience members themselves but also other people and stimuli in their lives. Even if we don’t see ourselves in the character, we should be able to see other people or concepts in these characters.

Ex. Just because a character is a yellow kitchen sponge in a tie, or a fat lazy cat, doesn’t mean that we can’t relate to the situations or emotions that they go through.

If you can honestly convince yourself that your character is someone that you could meet with in your everyday life (even if they’re not an actual human), then you’ve made a character that the audience should be able to find engaging on some sort of level. If you can’t do that, then your character may be lacking in one or more of the four parts.

I hope that this helped to answer your question. If there’s anything else that needs clarity or a better answer, then you know that the ask box is always open and ready for questions.

#bunny mod #Anonymous

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thesueclan · 9 years

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Sueclan, do you have any suggestions for writing mutes?

Bunny Mod

Make sure you know how/why your character is mute. There are various forms of muteness caused by various things, so knowing that can give you a starting point for research into how a person with that particular type of mutism would communicate. Things like how long the character has been mute or how they reacted when they realized they were mute (if there was ever a “realization” moment) can be essential to this development.

Put some emphasis on how the character emotes/communicates. If this character is important to the story, try not to push them aside due to their inability to deliver dialogue. There are non-verbal ways of communication and self expression; Facial expressions, hand gestures, the clothing they where, their hobbies etc., can all create distinct personality traits without the character ever saying a word. After all, the phrase goes, “Show, don’t tell.”

It doesn’t need to be in the forefront, but addressing some of the issues that come with being mute would help to make the character more relatable. It’s fine if you don’t, but better if you do. Much like making racially diverse characters, just slapping on a disability to a character doesn’t necessarily make them representative characters. Things like alluding to the character getting left out of verbal conversations or other everyday struggles can help pick them up from being a character who happens to not talk to a character with a real disability that they actually have to deal with in their day-to-day life.

That’s all the advice have at the moment. I’m sorry that I don’t have more specific information on mute characters, but I hope that it helped out out regardless.

If you have any other comments, questions, or concerns, then please feel free to leave them in the ask box.

#bunny mod #Anonymous

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thesueclan · 9 years

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The Validity of Reviewing Mary Sues (Is There Any?)

Bunny Mod

This is just an editorial in between bigger articles from both Mod Loli and me. This came from a thought that I had last night and decided to expand upon.

Just a little while ago a thought came up in my mind about why Mary Sue blogs are so popular. It's at this point that they're a dime a dozen with one for nearly every fandom and many that are just general sue blogs. Although The Sue Clan does technically fall under that umbrella, I do pride myself with this blog by not running it like those which just grab characters from off the web and critique them as a form of comedy. This blog differs by focusing more on bad characters than just the Mary Sue. By most definitions a Mary Sue is a self-insert character/wish fulfillment character and we tend to focus more on more generally bad characters.

And in thinking about that, I began to wonder, is it actually valid to review Mary Sues as one would a "normal" character? After all, if Mary Sues are just the author reimagined, then what's actually being critiqued is the person's ego.

While I do think that it's completely legitimate to comment on a person's actions and work, I'm not sure if it's a good idea to comment on an actual person for being a dork. After all, I think that most people would say that it's kinda mean to make fun of someone for indulging in something that makes them happy. So why does it become funny to do that when those emotions are pushed onto a character?

My guess is that when it's an actual person, we as people can recognize that they're kinda in their own bubble with that sort of thing. They can have their imaginary crushes and/or dreams of abilities much greater than their reality and life goes on. But when it comes to storytelling media, it is a product which we have willingly consumed. If we don't like what's in it, we may feel like we've wasted our time investing ourselves in the story and characters. Naturally we would want to voice our complaints or hear them from someone else to feel validated in our own opinions.

But that doesn't change that the character is still a stand-in for the author, and making fun of their character is making fun of them for self indulging. We as the audience see it as a character while the author sees it as a reflection of themselves. Most people don't take too kindly to being critiqued, especially when it's negative. Plus, in this situation not only are their egos being critiqued but also their skills as writers which can make the blow that much heavier.

I do think that the "caustic critic" does have a place when reviewing bigger products like movies, games, books, etc., because a lot more resources were put into a product that just wasn't good but is still making money. When the work is amateur, how fair is it for "reviewers" who are also amateur at their "jobs" to critique something so harshly without asked input from the author? It's different when it's a consensual agreement between amateurs (like what we do here) because there's an understanding that both parties aren't professional and there's a higher sense of empathy between them, but when it's done behind the authors back to get a quick laugh, it becomes more akin to schoolyard bullying.

I don't think that this is usually done in malice because as I said earlier, most blogs/people do this as a form of comedy. Most even go out of their way to say that they don't condone the bullying of the individual. But if their self proclaimed specialty is making fun of characters which are little more than reimaginings of the individual, then how different is making fun of the character from making fun of the person behind it?

Now, this doesn't mean that I think that writing Mary Sues is a good practice. A Mary Sue is just another type of bad character and they should try to be fixed when the author becomes aware of that fact. But if the worst that the author is doing is just indulging in their self imaginations then what purpose does a harsh back alley critique serve?

In short, I just don’t think that there is any.

Those are just some of my thoughts on the subject. If you have any comments, please feel free to do so.

#bunny mod #TSC Editorial #mary sue #mary sues #writing

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thesueclan · 9 years

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Hello Followers! Mod Loli here with Creepy Corner’s first ever survey!

The topic?

Creepy pasta!

Question 1:

What is your definition of Creepy pasta? (Exp: It’s supposed to be super scary, bone chilling, its supposed to be a fun place to experiment with gore and human psychology ect ect.)

Question 2:

What do you think of the Creepy pasta Fandom? (Exp: I dislike the shipping, I love the shipping, I love the roleplay, I think they ruin it, ect ect.)

Question 3:

What do you think is most important when making a Creepy pasta? (Exp: Character design, horror aspect, interesting character, Avoiding cliche’s, ect.)

If you chose to participate in this Survey please send your answer’s into the ask box so that I may collect the data anonymously and in an orderly fashion!

The result’s of the survey will be posted as a cute picture but any names will be edited out unless asked otherwise! Thank you very much everyone!

Mod loli~!

#reblog #bunny mod in the tags #we would super appreciate it if ya'll would participate #it'll help me and Loli in future projects #articles and advice in the future!

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thesueclan · 9 years

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Hello Followers! Mod Loli here with Creepy Corner’s first ever survey!

The topic?

Creepy pasta!

Question 1:

What is your definition of Creepy pasta? (Exp: It’s supposed to be super scary, bone chilling, its supposed to be a fun place to experiment with gore and human psychology ect ect.)

Question 2:

What do you think of the Creepy pasta Fandom? (Exp: I dislike the shipping, I love the shipping, I love the roleplay, I think they ruin it, ect ect.)

Question 3:

What do you think is most important when making a Creepy pasta? (Exp: Character design, horror aspect, interesting character, Avoiding cliche’s, ect.)

If you chose to participate in this Survey please send your answer’s into the ask box so that I may collect the data anonymously and in an orderly fashion!

The result’s of the survey will be posted as a cute picture but any names will be edited out unless asked otherwise! Thank you very much everyone!

Mod loli~!

#Reblog #mod loli

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thesueclan · 9 years

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Hello Followers! Mod Loli here with Creepy Corner’s first ever survey!

The topic?

Creepy pasta!

Question 1:

What is your definition of Creepy pasta? (Exp: It’s supposed to be super scary, bone chilling, its supposed to be a fun place to experiment with gore and human psychology ect ect.)

Question 2:

What do you think of the Creepy pasta Fandom? (Exp: I dislike the shipping, I love the shipping, I love the roleplay, I think they ruin it, ect ect.)

Question 3:

What do you think is most important when making a Creepy pasta? (Exp: Character design, horror aspect, interesting character, Avoiding cliche's, ect.)

If you chose to participate in this Survey please send your answer’s into the ask box so that I may collect the data anonymously and in an orderly fashion!

The result’s of the survey will be posted as a cute picture but any names will be edited out unless asked otherwise! Thank you very much everyone!

Mod loli~!

#Creepy corner #The sue clan #Mod loli #Creepy pasta #Survey #creepy pasta Survey

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