On Fri, 1 May 1998, Mark Doherty wrote:

I'm Here to Help
by Mark Doherty(mdoherty@uq.net.au)

Oh, and if I hated Sailor Moon I sure as hell wouldn't be spending this
much time on a story for it. Do you know how many hours went into this
chapter? Argh. It's the POV of a guy who is the Senshi's enemy, you can't
expect it to be _too_ nice now, can you?

Actually, I have read many fanfics where the only conclusion I could draw
was that the author of the story HATED the series in question, and wanted
to destroy and revile it.  

For that matter, The Space Gopher and I probably invested a good 20-30
hours on our collaborative MST of 'Childhood's End', which we both utterly
reviled, simply because we felt it needed to be obliterated.  

You'd be amazed at how much energy people can put into attacking
something.  Just take your own character as an example. How much time has
HE put into writing about the Senshi and what he thinks about them? :)

"Again?" the man asked before he could stop himself. "The Dark Kingdom

has

heh :)

stooped lower yet again?" he added to cover his gaffe. Perhaps this time,
he thought, one of the Senshi's enemies will actually manage to keep Mr 
Swank. But time had shown him before that he wasn't usually that lucky... 

And since Tuxboy is around in the future, he ought to know they won't be
able to hold him.

Artemis looked around. "We'd better get out of here. Unless the rest of
you have shadowy lover boys scheduled to turn up."

Hehe :)

Poison? No, no it wouldn't... it wouldn't be right. It wouldn't get me
what I wanted anyway, the Senshi's physiology, like mine, could almost
certainly handle something as petty as poison. 

Given how willing he is to kill people, I don't see why he'd be reluctant
to use poison on that account.

"You absolute idiot," he calmly said to the crystal as every youma in 
the throneroom turned to look at him.

Heh :)

Sometimes, I have to wonder what a world without all these powers would
be like. Mundane? Of course. But would such mundanity be a very bad
thing? 

Yes :)

In my youth, I dreamed dreams of power. But now, I find that I dream of a 
life most ordinary, for all the world's people. I wonder, if these dreams 
were fulfilled, would they leave the same bittersweet taste that the ones
of my youth did?

Yes.





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