{"id":1715,"date":"2014-11-21T01:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T01:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2014-11-21T01:53:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T01:53:00","slug":"there-is-a-reason-that-most-fanfiction-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/?p=1715","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There is a reason that most fanfiction authors, specifically girls, start with a Mary Sue.  It\u2019s because girls are taught that they are never enough.  You can\u2019t be too loud, too quiet, too smart, too stupid.  You can\u2019t ask too many questions or know too many answers.  No one is flocking to you for advice.  Then something wonderful happens.  The girl who was told she\u2019s stupid finds out that she can be a better wizard than Albus Dumbledore.  And that is something very important.  Terrible at sports?  You\u2019re a warrior who does backflips and Legolas thinks you\u2019re THE BEST.   No friends?  You get a standing ovation from Han Solo and the entire Rebel Alliance when you crash-land safely on Hoth after blowing up the Super Double Death Star.  It\u2019s all about you.  Everyone in your favorite universe is TOTALLY ALL ABOUT YOU.<\/p>\n<p>I started writing fanfiction the way most girls did, by re-inventing themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Sues exist because children who are told they\u2019re nothing want to be everything.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/unwinona.tumblr.com\/post\/76199740643\/the-importance-of-mary-sue\">{UnWinona}: The Importance of Mary Sue<\/a>\u00a0 (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nyarlo.net\/\">ultralaser<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a reason that most fanfiction authors, specifically girls, start with a Mary Sue. It\u2019s because girls are taught that they are never enough. You can\u2019t be too loud, too quiet, too smart, too stupid. You can\u2019t ask too many questions or know too many answers. No one is flocking to you for advice. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/?p=1715\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renne.finalknight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}