The origin of "Mary Sue"
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blue_lotus13"Mary Sue" was formally named after the main character in Paula Smith's 1974 Star Trek parody, "A Trekkie's Tale". In the story, Lieutenane Mary Sue, a beautiful and resourceful half-Vulcan, saves the Enterprise from destruction by using a hairpin and then dies surrounded by Kirk, Spock, Dr. McCoy and Mr. Scott who weep at the loss of "her beautiful youth and youthful beauty, inelligence, capability and all round niceness."
- from "me myself and i- fan fiction and the art of self-insertion" by Keidra Chaney and Raizel Leibler- in "Bitch magazine"
- from "me myself and i- fan fiction and the art of self-insertion" by Keidra Chaney and Raizel Leibler- in "Bitch magazine"
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Date: 2006-01-28 07:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-28 10:18 pm (UTC)That's just sic.
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