Uh-oh, Not Another Trope...Click. Click. Click.Ooh, now that's interesting.Let me see here... Click.That's another good one. How fascinating.I'm having a positipsy good time!What? It's a Perfectly Cromulent Word!Fine... But I'll have you know... Ooh, Another trope. Sorry, I was distractedBy the Shiny. Or Trope. Oh, you know whatI mean. Or maybe you don't. Who are you, again?My best friend? *blink* Er... I know your name...Give me a second... Josh? No... Stephen? No...What? Ben? I knew that. I did! I just... Hey lookAt my wrist, it's time for me to go Iron My Dog!Click... Click... Click... Click... Click...Oh Crap.Click. Click. Click. Cli
Beginning to a possible storyYarborough Private School went coed. Having been an exsclusively all boys school for fourteen years, and having been a middle school student for two of them, I bet you think that we all had a big bonfire party, got down on our knees and thanked God for showing us such kindness, right? Not quite.You see, Yarborough wasn't one of thos fancy "jocks rule, our parents are rich and yours aren't" private schools. Yarborough was a place for the outcasts. It was a place for all those weird, nerdy emo guys who were picked last for dodgeball. Who had to wait all recess long for a turn on the swing that never came. Who had heard the phrase "Why don't y
A Mary Sue RantYou know what I mean. Mary Sues. They are the bane of any fanfic writer in any fandom all over the world. And what bugs me is that no one seems to know how to define one and ends up making one due to being fed misinformation about what the hell it is anyway.It is NOT simply someone who has cool hair.It is NOT simply someone who has a cool name.It is NOT simply someone who has a cool gadget, style, appearance, etc.It is NOT simply someone who has a few canon friends, or knows some awesome skill, or has a tragic backstory.AND IT IS MOST CERTAINLY NOT SIMPLY A TERM FOR A CHARACTER WITH SOME TRAIT YOU DON'T LIKE.You'd be surprised how many Mary Sues qualify as such due to having a sheer lack of inherently good qualities. This happens because of that last thing on the list, where people who are supposedly defining what a Mary Sue is instead shoehorn stuff they just don't like onto their list of Sue-ish traits. This generally results in people trying to a
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