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Thanks to the ever wonderful Kerrang radio I heard this today - http://youtu.be/XjRaKId4Rps I Am Electric by Heaven's Basement which I like immensely.

Also on the morning show this week, Mick Foley is picking a tune a day. Today's tune was Stiff Upper Lip by AC/DC. He added this tidbit. He was on one of the talk shows on the same day as AC/DC, and they played this while warming up. Cue Mick headbanging away. HHH taps him on the shoulder and tells him to look to the other side of the studio, where, horror of horrors, Vince McMahon is also happily (and apparently the expectedly awkwardly) headbanging away.

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TNA continue to do their best to segregate the stuff I like away from their main event scene.

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TNA once again leads to face-palming.

A Question and the Fanfic Meme

So I'm writing an Alexander the Great modern day AU, and Alexander is about to appear driving a Ferrari. Now to me, it's obvious that I'm using a Ferrari to stand in for Bucephalas because the Ferrari symbol is a prancing horse. However, I am tifosi and I'm not sure how clear it is to someone who isn't into motorsports. Opinions are being canvassed.

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Fanfic Meme Day 8 – Do you write OCs? And if so, what do you do to make certain they're not Mary Sues, and if not, explain your thoughts on OCs.

It intrigues me that this meme only asks about OCs and Mary Sues but not about Gary Stus.

Yes, I write OCs, because often the fics I write require it. For instance, when the fic is set a long time after or before the canon, and I need someone from then to take part in the action for the plot. Other times, it's because the whole point of the fic is that the OC is not one of the regular characters in the canon. And on one occasion, because the BBC SFX budget is not up to providing me with active, octopodal characters.

One of the first fandoms I spent time in was X-Men Comics, and in that there is a whole genre of OC fic called "common people fic" and the whole point is that they characters are OC non-mutants who are affected by the main plot (or sometimes non-visible or non-fantastically-powered mutants). It's a fantastic genre if you like world-building and mutant politics, which are two of my favourite things, and I wonder if that has affected my view of things.

The fear of Mary Sues interests me because, if you take a background character, give them way more detail than canon gives it and put them centre stage, you're an inventive fanfic writer, yet if you create a female character whole-cloth and make her the centre of the action, you're doing something bad. I understand the whole "no-one is interested in your self-inserts but you" but the term Mary Sue has become so over- and misused through time that it's basically meaningless.

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