No, it isn't Monty Python slash fiction (yet). I actually stumbled across something interesting and, dare I say it, good! Maybe I'm just too easy to impress after crawling through the literary equivalent of barbed wire and lemon juice. It's a 'Fern Gully' fanfiction written in the style and persona of a blatant and painful Mary-Sue. It mixes suisims with tongue-in-cheek humor very well.
Most people, when they write in Mary-Sue style for the purposes of mockery, do it very poorly. Yes, chat-speak, random plot happenings, and awful characterization are hallmarks of the genre but the majority of writers emphasize these too heavily while leaving out the over the top descriptions, baffling 'creative' choices, and OC-centrism that make bad writing so compellingly hilarious.
Most writers give us something like this:
"i luv u, Edwerd. We shuld get married and also Carlyle can sleep with us too becuz he is a hottie," panted Saphirre-Athena lovingly.
"I agre. After Bella dieded I thought i wood never love anither woman but you are even more beautiful and smart and not at al clumsy. Plus you are already a vampire so I don't half to turn you," Edward replied, hus honey colored eyes glinting in the sunlight so that they turned a vivid gold but not as gold as Sapphire-Athena's hair.
It's not funny. It's not good. It just hits the main points of what makes a Mary-Sure without capturing the charm. Yes, Mary-Sues have charm. Ms. Hill managed to give us a very clever and well done parody, something far more difficult than it appears.
Link: The Saviour
(And, yes, I wrote that little example in all of five seconds. I could have stolen one but stealing, though very cool, is also wrong.)
Edit: Someone I simply must mention in this particular article is Hans von Hozel. He is an amazing person, totally guilty of writing overly simplistic parodies of bad fanfiction but, at the same time, a minor saint of Discordianism. He's good at being bad too but in a totally non-Mary-Sue way. One day I will write an entire article on him.
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