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Jan

minim-calibre said:

Please, you are totally fictional. Clearly. Or else we wouldn’t know each other. MARY SUE LIFE OF CRIME!

If I am fictional, why aren’t I a fabulously wealthy eccentric with a butler? Huh, huh? I want to be a character in a genre-busting paranormal epic, dammit.

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holmesiandeduction:

lastofthetimeladies:

  • Oh by the way I ran River Song through this Mary Sue litmus test today…
  • She scored a 73.

Yes, but notice they mention that Neil Gaiman’s Morpheus also scores high on the test. It’s possible to have a good character that has a…

So I decided to run myself through the Mary Sue test, like minim did. Yes, there were a whole bunch of questions I had to skip. But even so, this is the answer I got:

71 points or more: Irredeemable-Sue. You’re going to have to start over, my friend. I know you want to keep writing, but no. Just no.

I swear I’m not a fictional character. I am the figment of no one’s imagination. Except maybe Clovis’.