Comment on Why are Maries Sues hated while Gary Stus are loved?

solrize@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

danluu.com/su3su2u1/hpmor/

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