The Weird World Of Mary Sues

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I think the whole Mary Sue thing went from an earnest attempt at helping newbie writers avoid a common pitfall to bullying kids for not being immediately aware of said pitfall.

Wait, imagine a story where LITERALLY EVERYONE is a Mary Sue. Imagine how insane it would be. I kinda wanna write that just for laughs

I love how fandoms go from "innocently making Mary sues" to "WE HATE MARY SUES!!" to "awww Mary sues are so nostalgic we love them"

i used to have a character called Willow who had black hair covering one eye with some burned off her head because she had uncontrollable fire powers. basically, she was so powerful that she had an outburst and accidentally burned her house down with her parents in it so she ran away to the forest and changed her name to the first tree she found. not really that "mary sue", just kid of bad and overused

The “I’m not like other girls” 2010’s era truly brought out the WORST in all of us 💔

I love how the non Mary Sue character in that diagram had “clumsy” “can’t dance” and “bad at math” as character flaws as though those aren’t the most token ideas of flaws.

I’m traumatized by Mary-sue culture, I literally struggle making characters TO THIS DAY. I would/still hear voices basically brutally criticizing my characters and designs like a comment section on art forums (even if nobody was ever going to see the character) I was so terrified of being cancelled for having an overpowered character that I deprived myself creatively, even my husband used to say “you’ve given this character a cool ability but also several limitations and flaws because of that. so now it’s not fun for you anymore..”

Shout out to all the people brave enough to share their ancient ocs with the class, I would actually shrivel up into dust if someone saw all my made-up SCPs from late elementary school/early middle school😭

Someone once mentioned Mary Sues are an answer from kids who were bullied into believing they couldn't do anything and so they made characters that could do anything. Been kinda hard to hate on Mary Sues ever since I read that, it's just a way for traumatized kids to cope and dream.

oh my god i remember being TERRIFIED of “accidentally making a mary sue” so i literally spent hours researching how to make a “good oc” out of fear that i’d be made fun of

As someone who has fully embraced my cringe and loves looking back on my old "mary-sues" from when I was a kid, I love seeing other people's old Mary Sues or Gary Stus! When my little brother and sister make their first Mary Sue, or Gary Stu, or Sparkle Dog, I cant wait to see it and encourage them to keep drawing and creating! Nothing as amazing as seeing baby's first self insert OC.

For some reason, I actually kinda like how bright and chaotic Mary sues designs are. It’s extreme randomness has some sorta weird ass charm to me, even though I’m trying to learn how to animate :,)

It's cute how instead of finding OCs on DeviantArt to mock, you got your fans to submit their own. That's really wholesome.

I adore most Mary Sue designs tbh they’re such a look I feel like they’ve aged charmingly

when I was 12 (2016) I made a 280-picture comic using the pony creator game and free backgrounds. it’s still somewhere in the wild vk pony groups, uploaded from an account that I can’t access anymore because it’s deleted. i reread it every summer. it was never finished, but I decided to please my inner child by remaking it as a full-fledged comic. maybe it won’t happen this year or the next one, but one day I’m gonna call up my old childhood friend who supported me back then and show her that the story still lives.

when I was 13, I was REALLY into this niche community on YouTube that revolved around foreign language dubs of Disney movies. People would make ranking videos of their favorite dubs, multilanguage edits of songs, you get the idea. I had a Mary sue at the time that was basically just edgy Elsa and I guarantee that she was only made because I heard the Czech version of let it go and thought it would be a good voice for an oc 😭

The only time a Mary Sue can be “harmful” in my opinion is if it is used in a roleplay to actively outclass/kill other peoples characters and derail the story. Otherwise go hog wild lol

I always thought Mary Sue was a actual character that people bullied as a sick sense of humor for the majority of my life.

My own Mary Sue was a yellow mlp alicorn named Blaze Apple who had an infinite lowing fire mane, was a vampire fruit bat, and had a crush on Flippy from happy tree friends for obvious reasons. She had red magic and was "stronger than all the rest." I'm glad I grew out of Sue characters because it allowed me to turn her from an all-powerful immortal murder vampire into a gay college jock vamp who was just good at playing guitar lmao