Mest
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By 2002, the definition of Mary Sue began to change as Mary Sue became further and further removed from her roots. In communities like Harry Potter and Good Charlotte, on sites like SugarQuill and FanDomination.Net, the community took their understanding of Mary Sue, which was filtered through several layers of various fen, and came to a new understanding. This understanding began to define almost every original character in fiction as a Mary Sue as they all could be said to have traits of Mary Sue. In communities where there was a distinct absence of canonical female characters and people, in communities like Mest and Good Charlotte, Mary Sue began to be defined as any original female character in fan fiction.
On February 1, 2003, in response to the deletion of the LiveJournal community fanficdotnet, the LiveJournal community music_fic was created. (Herongale) It would host Audioslave, Eighteen Visions, Fall Out Boy, Foo Fighters, Good Charlotte, Green Day, HIM, Hoobastank, Linkin Park, Lostprophets, Mest, Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Rancid fan fiction.
By 2005, there was a trend with beta reading. Some communities seem to embrace the term and embrace the concept of using beta readers. Some communities seem oblivious to the concept and writers were thus not encouraged to use beta readers. The Good Charlotte, Mest and AFI fan fiction communities seem rather oblivious to the term beta reader. A few authors have heard of it. Of those, few if any use one. Their familiarity with the term generally comes from having run across big name fans in the community thanking their beta readers in the author notes section of their story. The communities that do not seem to be using the term generally appear to be dominated by younger authors, authors who were dropping into the fan fiction community just to write for their fandom, authors who were in their first fandom and communities with a lack of long established members of the broader fan fiction community pushing the broader community’s cultural practices on them.
[edit] Sourcs
- Bleeding Rain. Online interview.
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