{"id":28230,"date":"2013-05-08T04:34:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T04:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/05\/08\/psa-3\/"},"modified":"2013-05-08T04:34:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T04:34:21","slug":"psa-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/05\/08\/psa-3\/","title":{"rendered":"PSA."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/v-p-potts.tumblr.com\/post\/49911901546\/psa\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">v-p-potts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/theultimatearcher.tumblr.com\/post\/49910950452\/psa\">theultimatearcher<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/litttlemockingbird.tumblr.com\/post\/45397320505\/psa\">litttlemockingbird<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Not all OC\u2019s are Mary Sue\u2019s\/Gary Stu\u2019s.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Just because you had a bad experience with an OC does not mean all OC\u2019s are going to be the same.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Just because it\u2019s an OC does not mean they\u2019re a Mary Sue\/Gary Stu<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Just because an OC has common traits\u00a0<\/span><span>does not mean they\u2019re a Mary Sue\/Gary Stu<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Just because an OC has <em>un<\/em>common traits\u00a0<\/span><span>does not mean they\u2019re a Mary Sue\/Gary Stu<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>I feel like the terms are being thrown around with people really thinking over what a Mary Sue\/Gary Stu really is.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Do you know how fucking rude it is and hurtful to call someone\u2019s character that??<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>All characters are original characters. FUCKING MAGIC, RIGHT?<\/span><\/li>\n<li>I\u2019ve seen a lot more OC females being called out on this and honestly that is some of the biggest bullshit fuckery I have ever seen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>People who play canon characters don\u2019t really have the right to judge OC\u2019s considering there are plenty who manipulate a character into ways they want them to be. Playing a canon character doesn\u2019t at all make you a better role player. It just makes you a dick if you think you\u2019re better. Like wow, you chose to play a canon character good for you. Just let people have fun. Or go away.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Adding to add: Mary Sues are\u00a0<em>awesome.<\/em>\u00a0 We all know that girls are told constantly to take up less space, be less intrusive, not speak up. \u00a0If young writers want to create a woman character who is powerful and amazing and unique and flawless, I will stand up and applaud them every time. \u00a0As the writer grows, they may learn how interesting it is to write an ordinary, flawed character, but until then, you go right ahead and write that woman who is so powerful that she could be a breaker of worlds, like Galactus or Superman or something.<\/p>\n<p>The next time someone calls your OC a Mary Sue, the correct response is \u201cThank you. \u00a0I think she\u2019s incredible, too!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>v-p-potts: theultimatearcher: litttlemockingbird: Not all OC\u2019s are Mary Sue\u2019s\/Gary Stu\u2019s. Just because you had a bad experience with an OC does not mean all OC\u2019s are going to be the same. Just because it\u2019s an OC does not mean they\u2019re a Mary Sue\/Gary Stu Just because an OC has common traits\u00a0does not mean they\u2019re a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/05\/08\/psa-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PSA.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[717,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28230"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}