| Look what I stumbled upon.... |
[Jun. 23., 2009|01:55 pm] |
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| [ | Aktuelle Musik |
| | Bryan Adams - Summer of '69 | ] |
I fondly remember sitting in front of my parents PC, navigating DOS to play this game for hours....
Hexxagon made by Neave Games
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| The Origin of the term "Mary Sue" & Fanfiction |
[Jan. 30., 2009|10:42 pm] |
When you're bored, you'll do anything to relieve the boredom. Well, this time I wondered where the term "Mary Sue" originates from. And look, Wikipedia has a whole article dedicated to our beloved Mary-Sue...
Quote:
"The term "Mary Sue" is taken from a character created by Paula Smith in 1973 for her parody story "A Trekkie's Tale," published in her fanzine Menagerie #2. The character in question was Lieutenant Mary Sue ("the youngest Lieutenant in the fleet - only fifteen and a half years old"). Smith's story poked fun at what she considered to be unrealistic and adolescent wish-fantasy characters appearing in Star Trek fan fiction of the period. Such characters were, in general, original (non-canon) and female adolescents who had romantic liaisons with established canon adult characters, or in some cases were the younger relatives or proteges of those characters. They also possessed unrealistic, unlikely, and often exotic skills and traits above and beyond those that would have been expected of any character in that particular series or of a conventional author surrogate. Later, the "Mary Sue" concept was expanded to include any author surrogate or overly idealized character who plays a major role in a plot, in original fiction as well as fan fiction."
For those who want to read the whole article, please go here.
And here is the story by Paula Smith:
( A Trekkies Tale )
And just because this woke my curiosity, I searched for "Fanfiction" and look, there's another article!
Fanfiction@Wikipedia which links to another article: Terms in Fanfiction.
So for all the newbies to fanfiction, who want to know what the abbreviations in most summaries mean, take a look! |
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| Another Quiz... |
[Sep. 15., 2008|08:01 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | quiz | ] |
| [ | Aktuelle Stimmung |
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| [ | Aktuelle Musik |
| | Radio - News | ] |
Your result for The Commonly Confused Words Test... AdvancedYou scored 86% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 87% Advanced, and 73% Expert! You have an extremely good understanding of beginner, intermediate, and advanced level commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of each of these three levels' questions correct. This is an exceptional score. Remember, these are commonly confused English words, which means most people don't use them properly. You got an extremely respectable score.
Thank you so much for taking my test. I hope you enjoyed it!
For the complete Answer Key, visit my blog: http://shortredhead78.blogspot.com/.
Take The Commonly Confused Words Test at HelloQuizzy |
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| Redo of a Star Wars Personality Quiz... |
[Jun. 26., 2008|07:56 pm] |
Hm.... I seem to becomet more and more like R2-D2... curious.... I wonder what that means....
previous result
Your results:
You are R2-D2
| R2-D2 |
| 73% |
| Yoda |
| 64% |
| Obi-Wan Kenobi |
| 62% |
| Padme |
| 62% |
| Qui-Gon Jinn |
| 61% |
| Princess Leia |
| 60% |
| Boba Fett |
| 59% |
| Luke Skywalker |
| 59% |
| Darth Maul |
| 56% |
| Chewbacca |
| 55% |
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What you lack in height
and communication skills,
you make up for in industriousness,
technical know-how and being there
when others need you most.
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(This list displays the top 10 results out of a possible 21 characters)
Click here to take the "Which Star Wars character am I?" quiz...
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| First post @ insanejournal.com |
[Nov. 6., 2007|08:58 pm] |
| [ | Aktuelle Stimmung |
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| [ | Aktuelle Musik |
| | Linkin Park - Bleed It Out | ] |
So, since Livejournal succeeded in driving away two of my favourite fanfic-authors and these two migrating to Insanejournal.com, I've decided to follow them and create my own journal here.
Now let's hope that IJ doesn't pull a similar stunt like LJ.... |
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