Mary Sues make me cry. Mary Sues with my name make me homicidal.

[ladyvyola]

Mary Sue Meme, most recently seen in musesfool: and reetchick's journals:

1. Use fanfiction.net's Search >> Story By Summary and look up your name in either Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings.

2. If there are any Mary Sues that share your name, pick the worst-sounding one and post the summary.

Way too many results for "Sarah" (if I never see another Sarah McLachlan songfic it will be too soon!)

I've got to say the best (worst, that is) is probably the succinctly-titled Harry and Sarah Potter: Twins. Who cares about the summary when you get an author's note like this:

Hey, ya’ll! This is a testimony beyond words, I can tell you that! Before I actually READ the first Harry Potter novel, my mind was set. “Harry Potter is evil,” I used to remark every time someone said the name. I couldn’t have been further from the truth! Now, I’ve seen the movie. I’ve read the first two books. And now, I shall prepare the very first FAN FICTION! I can tell you, as always, this is a Mary Sue. I hope you guys like the newest version of Sarah, my character. She still has the shoulder-length black hair, but she’s a little different in personality...MUCH closer to my own! I’ve decided NOT to tell you anything about what I think of the characters yet, so you can figure things out for yourselves! I hope that I can spin just as clever a plotline as Miss Rowling did. ONWARD and UPWARD with my stories.

Harry Potter and all characters and thoughts used in this fan fiction belong a lovely Englishwoman named J.K. Rowling and if she ever happens to read this fiction, I just want to tell her that I LOVED her book and that I hope to be as powerful a writer as she is someday! YOU ARE MY IDLE! (By the way, this story is written as though you’ve NEVER read the novel itself and is just as interesting and intriguing(I hope)as the original story.)

It features "Griffindors", Sarah being placed with the Weasleys after James and Lily die, Sarah's abilities as a "Geniotongue and a Dreamcatcher", Voldemort's niece Sania Grandler being sorted into "Griffindor", a description of "erotic noises" in a dream, and the following passage: "Of course I’m not afraid of you, Sania," Sarah told her, "Just because you’re related to the person who tried to kill me doesn’t give me any right to have a grudge against you. You are who you are because you are an individual. A lot of people forget that, but I never will."

Kill. Me. Now.

Comments

[thornsilver]

Kill. Me. Now.

You don't think running down and killing the author of... *that* is more to the point? :)

[ladyvyola.livejournal.com]

All...will...to...live...gone...run...save...yourself....

[smaragdgrun.livejournal.com]

You are my IDLE.

And please tell me it can't get worse than that ... please.

[ladyvyola.livejournal.com]

But it does! Just look at 'em (not too closely though, you need to pace yourself)!

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

She's fessing up to writing Mary Sue? Guh! In my day, when we wrote Mary Sue, we were ashamed of it and tried to call it "original female character" fiction instead. Kids today. *walking off, muttering, looking for cane and bifocals*

[ladyvyola.livejournal.com]

To which I refer you to my icon.

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

LOL! Oh yes, so true. That rates a frog kitty in return.