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2011

The Mary Sue

The Mary Sue is One Year Old Today!

It’s hard to believe a year ago today, Jamie and I were coming off of two straight weeks of work getting the site ready, and we were hoping that anyone would look at it at all. That anyone would care about another nerd site, that people who knew what a Mary Sue is would see the wink in our name and read further, and above all, that other geek girls, who so often have a hard time identifying with anything branded as “for women,” would see that there were some geek girls behind this one. It was kind of a crazy time…

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Our Adorable Past

Amanda’s Year in Review

Editor’s Note: We asked Amanda LaPergola, one of our contributing writers, to summarize the major events of the past year. All that we asked was that she complete the assignment before the Christmas holidays. As of press time, we have still not heard from her. However, yesterday a package arrived at The Mary Sue headquarters containing a note from Amanda’s mom (Dear Miss Sue: Please excuse my daughter’s tardiness. She has been too busy telling everyone in her family all about that new My Little Pony show to focus on anything else.) and the following pages.

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Elsewhere on the internet

One Hundred and Sixty Six of the Movies That Came Out This Year, in One YouTube Compilation

If there’s one thing I like about the end of the year, it’s this kind of thing. Hatinhand has strung six different snippets of music together with a couple hundred separate clips from movies released in 2011. Each tiny clip that I recognize reminds me of the whole experience of the movie, where I saw it, what company I was in, and usually the mindset I happened to be in at the time. It’s been a long, crazy year.

To find out what made it in, and what was left out, check below the cut.

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