Comment on Why are Maries Sues hated while Gary Stus are loved?
solrize@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Here’s a SIXTY THOUSAND WORD NEGATIVE REVIEW railing that much about how terrible a certain Gary Stu fanfic (HPMOR). I mean it’s insane. Lots of people don’t like HPMOR and even its admirers know it has errors and lots of cringy parts. The reviewer instead goes through the whole fic sentence by sentence finding things to complain about. Most of the complaints are correct but trivial, adding up to “so what?”.
Anyway it wouldn’t occur to me that Gary Stu is automatically loved. Lots of people hate HPMOR, I mean really hate it, but most do the sensible thing and stop reading after a few chapters, or maybe even read it all and then say “wow, that sucked” and go on to something else. So there.
SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I used to be into HP fanfiction and my god I got so tired of hearing about HPMOR. I didn’t hate it, I didn’t feel nearly that strongly. I got a handful of chapters in and put it down, but that’s reasonably normal for me. But my god you could not escape that fic. It’s fans were rabid and it’s detractors were even worse than that. If it could vaguely fit a req, they’d bring it up. And then get three replies about how it doesn’t fit the req and it’s the worst thing since My Immortal within fifteen minutes.
solrize@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
As another example, think of the hate Wesley Crusher still gets decades after TNG. I dunno how Wil Wheaton deals with it.
solrize@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah that sounds about right. It has its own fandom separate from the main HP fic fandom. So the posters aren’t always looking for the same things.