And I also agree about Hermione--I think part of the reason I always do like to think of Hermione as a bit of a Mary Sue is to point out how an author can have an author insertion that isn't a terrible character. And also it's just always so interesting to see what someone with imagination comes up with for their insertion chracter--like a girl who is blond and very cute having an alter ego who is plain and obnoxious, you know? There's always something so fabulous about somebody realizing, "Wait, that's you? How could that be you?"
In fact, I have a friend who has this joke about finding "Who's inside you?" It started when she was talking with some people about Elmo on Sesame Street, who's played by a large black man. So it's always funny to think about little pink Elmo having "inside him" this grown man. So they started asking people about the random types that were inside people--one person, for instance, had a sister who was a surgeon but inside her she swore was a heavy metal headbanger. My boss, we feel, has inside her a 14-year-old cool girl. Things like that.
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Date: 2004-08-23 06:58 am (UTC)And I also agree about Hermione--I think part of the reason I always do like to think of Hermione as a bit of a Mary Sue is to point out how an author can have an author insertion that isn't a terrible character. And also it's just always so interesting to see what someone with imagination comes up with for their insertion chracter--like a girl who is blond and very cute having an alter ego who is plain and obnoxious, you know? There's always something so fabulous about somebody realizing, "Wait, that's you? How could that be you?"
In fact, I have a friend who has this joke about finding "Who's inside you?" It started when she was talking with some people about Elmo on Sesame Street, who's played by a large black man. So it's always funny to think about little pink Elmo having "inside him" this grown man. So they started asking people about the random types that were inside people--one person, for instance, had a sister who was a surgeon but inside her she swore was a heavy metal headbanger. My boss, we feel, has inside her a 14-year-old cool girl. Things like that.