Foreword: A Few Words About Mary Sue and the PPC
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Welcome to the world of meta-fanfiction, fanfiction about other people's fanfiction. Cinderella's Song is a PPC story, written after the fashion of the original Jay and Acacia (Protectors of the Plot Continuum, licensed Mary Sue Assassins) and Miss Camilla Sandman (headmistress of the Official Fanfiction University). Both the University and the PPC work to curb the flow of noxious badfic in paper and cyberspace. The University attempts this by forcibly reeducating authors in the way of grammar and characterization; the noble agents of the PPC step into the storyline itself to purge the continuum of badly written characters, hookups, and misinformation. The best known branch of the PPC is the Department of Mary Sues, whose trained assassins are ready to shoot these superpowered self-insertion characters on sight and rescue lovesick canon characters from their sticky hands.
This story assumes foreknowledge of the PPC and Mary Sue. If you are want more information, the original adventures and links to later instantiations can be found at Miss Sandman's World of Dreams. Other good resources on Mary Sue include Dr. Merlin's Guide to Fanfiction and her classic Mary Sue Litmus Test. Short Mary Sue humor pieces include the classic Nine Men and a Little Lady and Pirate Monkey's Hogwarts comic Sparklypoo. The brilliant unfinished saga Suedom, is also worth a read, as our agents will eventually find their way into that story. All of these pieces can be easily googled online.
Now, read.