Trivia / Springhole

• Creator Backlash:
  • Syera's early work was mainly about how to avoid writing invokedMary Sues. More recently, xe has argued for moving on from the term because it's become a meaningless snarl word and frames associated traits as absolutely bad. Xe's left up xir past writings on the subject to keep it archived.
  • In an update from November 5, 2020, xe said this:
    Also removed a few old articles with outdated, oversimplistic, and sometimes honestly pretty badly-done advice regarding writing minorities. (The useful stuff has made it into other articles, don't worry.) And I do apologize for that lousy content, and I will do my best to write better going forward.