Petition idea & Ava-meme-stealing fun

[perpetuity]

First, the meme. I stole it from Ava-chan.

Angel Style by greymentality
Name/Username
First Impression from Others	Others cower in your grandeur
Your Core	You want to spread the beauty of the great Voice
Potential to Stray from the Light: 9%
Your Weakness	You don't really know your place in the rank thing
Your Strength	You're an angel darn it! You rock!
Your Wings	Invisible most of the time, but dark gray the rest
Your Focus	Beauty
Created with the ORIGINAL MemeGen!

Next, Ava and I were talking today. About Mary Sue and CYOA, and we agree: we must do SOMETHING. We're thinking of starting a petition, hopefully to get FanFiction.Net to ban the two genres.

Here's my logic on the matter: FF.N has already banned Lists, MSTs, NC-17, and fics about real people. We're real people, too, it's not a fic if you write about yourself. And Ava pointed out that CYOA (Choose Your Own Adventure) is interactive; they've banned that, as well, I think.

Anyone interested?

Comments

[felinephoenix.livejournal.com]

Hate to say it, but I'm not with you here. While I hate Mary Sues as much as anybody else, there can be extremely good fics with original characters (interesting ones at that) in them. And Mary Sues and Gary Stus are just the bad side of that, they're kind of an inescapable part of fanfic. Besides -- what seems Mary Sue-ish to one person can be a strongly developed OC to another. It's all in the eyes of the beholder.

And I've never read a CYOA, but they sound fun...I was rather pissed when FFN banned Interactive fics and MSTs. And dont' get me started on NC-17 fics. There were some very good ones that weren't all about the sex and erotica's a valid literary genre anyway. Grrr.
The only ban I agreed with was the Real People fic because that stuff scares me, though I have a friend who boycotted the site because of it.

FFN should really quit banning stuff altogether.