Fanfiction is exactly what it sounds like: fiction written by fans. Sometimes ceiling fans, sometimes electric fans, occassionally even those neat Chinese paper fans . . . Well, maybe not. But the writers have about that IQ level generally. And most of them probably spend a lot of their time spinning in circles as fast as they can. Actually, it's when people read a book or watch a movie (or in some cases they don't bother to do either) and decide they want to use the world or characters someone else
Many, perhaps even most of these Fanfiction stories are also what we call "Mary Sues" (this term can be used to refer both to the lead character in such a story or to the story itself; the authors are called suethors). A Mary Sue involves an over-idealized self-insert, one who is completely flawless, ridiculously unrealistic, excessively described, and sometimes angsty as well. It is also typical for every character in the story to fall in love with said Mary Sue, thus destroying canon and the very fabric of space-time itself. So you can see how we had to do something about this.
We periodically search through The Pit of Voles for a story that the world deserves to be rid of, or at least one that we find especially amusing, and write an MST of it. Most of our MST's have been of the Lord of the Rings category, which seems to be one that attracts particular hordes of silly preteens and bad writers in general. Until recently we'd been keeping these in a LiveJournal, but we figured this would be more organized. We find comments very exciting, and they tend to inspire further MST's, so please do sign our guestbook and tell us who
And now, on to the show!
