Thank you for this post - it is really wonderful, and well thought out.
I was very young when I first heard about the PPC, through boz4pm. I was never a part of it, because I knew that in writing TAD, I would not have a leg to stand on! I had written other fics even more "Sueish" when I had been younger, and after a very brief period of "NO SUES!" - pure herd-following - I realised that I was having fun playing a character that could legitimately be called a Sue in TAD and TADers, and if I was having so much fun then others could be as well, so I didn't mock all the 11th walker fics in the LoTR fandom as much. Nen wrote several MSTs, I remember, and I recommended one to spork, because it was so full of insulting depictions of child abuse - there were a couple of others that we judged to be deserving because they had ANs congratulating themselves on their canon knowledge. But I myself was probably too harsh at times, and I am sorry for that as well.
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Date: 2010-04-13 01:04 pm (UTC)I was very young when I first heard about the PPC, through boz4pm. I was never a part of it, because I knew that in writing TAD, I would not have a leg to stand on! I had written other fics even more "Sueish" when I had been younger, and after a very brief period of "NO SUES!" - pure herd-following - I realised that I was having fun playing a character that could legitimately be called a Sue in TAD and TADers, and if I was having so much fun then others could be as well, so I didn't mock all the 11th walker fics in the LoTR fandom as much. Nen wrote several MSTs, I remember, and I recommended one to spork, because it was so full of insulting depictions of child abuse - there were a couple of others that we judged to be deserving because they had ANs congratulating themselves on their canon knowledge. But I myself was probably too harsh at times, and I am sorry for that as well.