Articles and miscellania on Mary Sue
The Original Mary Sue Litmus Test, from which I have shamelessly pilfered, and
The Original Fiction Mary Sue Test, a far more true-to-form test than mine.
Namarie Sue is the Making Light post where I first heard about Mary Sues, and good reading.
James Lyn has written an article called
Saving Mary Sue on how to salvage a bad character.
Self-Insertion and Mary-Sue-ism is an article describing the difference between the two.
Dark Mary Sue is a Steven Savage article on the phenomenon of Mary Sues popping up as villains.
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that there's a
Wikipedia entry for Mary Sue....
Too Good to be True: 150 Years of Mary Sue is an article by Pat Pflieger detailing the long and sordid history of Mary-Suedom.
And, of course, there's
Who Is Mary Sue? by yours truly, without which this list would not be complete. *snerk*
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