By Vivian KaneFeb 13th, 2021, 2:40 pm
It’s Valentine’s weekend and given the fact that we’ve been stuck inside for nearly a year, we could all probably do with a little extra fantasy. And since so many of us have spent the pandemic bingeing all the pop culture we can get our hands on, why not include those fictional friends in that fantasizing?
I asked my fellow Mary Sues which fictional character they’d like to take on a date this Valentine’s Day and what they’d do on that date. Did I basically ask my colleagues to write self-insert fanfiction? Yes! And I stand by it.
By Chelsea SteinerJan 16th, 2021, 11:51 am
2021 has been a YEAR, am I right? What’s that, we’re barely 3 weeks in? Oof magoof. Many of us began 2021 with high hopes for a year that would be less dumpster fire and more “normal”, but those dreams were quickly dashed by a failed insurrection, a botched COVID-19 vaccine rollout, and the nonstop
Indiana Jones-style murder boulder that is Trump’s final weeks in office. Of course, many among us don’t really consider it a new year until January 20th, when Biden and Harris are sworn in and our collective orange nightmare is over.
We here at the Mary Sue know a lot about, well, Mary Sues and so when the internet discourse went off today about who in the Star Wars universe is the real Mary Sue, it was sort of like a Bat-signal for us. And it came thanks to someone with her own bat-credentials legendary comics writer and master fandom troll Gail Simone.
Now, if we wanted to, we could devote a weekly, maybe even daily, column to “how Gail Simone broke the internet this time” and still not fully do justice to the beautiful chaos that is Simone’s Twitter feed. Whether it’s shaming Cyclops or insisting that Brits make their tea in the microwave, we can always rely on Simone to make the jokes no one else would think of, usually ones that whiny fanboys don’t quite get. But when it comes to her opinions on Luke Sky Walker … her humorously delivered opinion is totally correct.