I know she said private replies but I just had to say it:
The end will come, and it will be a brand new Oscarfic!
From: "Elsa Bibat" <aerolbj@i-next.net>
To: <ffml@fanfic.com>
Subject: [FFML] A Slight Observation On The FFML
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 00:28:45 +0800
I have this habit of getting my mail only after three or four days.
Nowadays it's been a
week since my eye started going nuts. Big red eyeballs with only red and
black without
the white is not exactly a healthy eye.
Anyway, for one thing as I ran over some of the mail, I've had one of my
theories confirmed.
The FFML has reached critical mass.
Critical mass has a conventional meaning in nuclear parlance, but this one
I'm talking about
is in sociological terms, or at least, fringe sociology. Imagine Hari
Seldon's pscyhohistory in
RL terms. A few socio friends of mine worked out a bunch of theories...
Anyway, according to them, every large group of living beings from rats to
humans will eventually
reach a stage of critical mass, when the population has grown to a very
dangerous level.
Once critical mass is attained, a series of crises will begin. Starting
from small ripples, which
I've started observing on the FFML ...oh ... about a a year back, slowly
progressing into several
other, and much larger and also potentially more catastrophic crises. The
rat experiment ended
up with a severe decline in population, through death and sundry other
things. Heh. I've been
observing two other social experiments, the first along with a anime
fan/sociologist at the State
University on the effect of the sudden ballooning of the anime enthusiasts
population of the
Philippines and the effect on the fans' attitudes and the fan society as a
whole. Damn good thesis
material. Of course, going the totally unethical approach. The other is the
world scene, but
everyone knows about that.
Well, expect to see more of this week's stupidity and firebreathing in the
near future if something
doesn't come up that rattles the entire FFML community. Oh, like the
arrival of the Messiah or
the end of the Age. Yeah, let's start a Bore to the Dark One now!!! ^_^
Solutions?
As Usagi Tsukino's teacher in my fic "The Education of Usagi Tsukino" puts
it, the fastest way to
world peace is to kill every living human being. Fascinating how Neo-Queen
Serenity applies
that thought, but that's another story.
But, it's true. A pre-emptive strike by White Wolf/Cherry Tiger and -WHAM-
no more FFML. No more
problems with crappy fanfics, idiotic newbies and crotchety elitists. A
cheery thought. ^_^
But I doubt anyone wants that.
There are no solutions. The only way through "Critical Mass" is to weather
it and for the society and
the dynamics and the laws that govern it to adapt. Good news about this is
if the FFML survives
this, it will most likely be stronger and much better adapted to the larger
audience. But before that
a lot of bad shit will go down.
Me? I'm going the Foundation route. See you at Terminus.
Yours in love and in hate,
Elsa Bibat
BTW, let us not forget that this is for private replies. For sociological
enquiries, look for it yourself, you
slacker!!! ^_^
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