Subject: October scrapbook
From: Damon Jason Casale
Date: 3/9/1996, 8:30 PM
To: fanfic@tendo-dojo.ranma.net

The Japanese Animation Fan Fiction Mailing List Archives Scrapbook
(is that title long enough for you?  ;)

I decided on a whim to put together a slowly lengthening scrapbook of 
memories, the majority of which come from the FFML.  Some are from IRC, but 
those are harder to keep reasonably edited.  <G>

This segment of the scrapbook covers October.

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Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 22:39:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: The Blue Tigress <sapphire@uclink.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Nabiki and the Airship
To: fanfic@andrew.cais.com


Thanks for the comments and the support!

I've fixed a few things and added a bit more to it.  BTW, can you think 
of a better name than 'Nabiki and the Airship'?  Also, where should they 
go next - the shops or the school?

Sapphire, The Blue Tigress
"Call me Sapphy and you die. Rwarr!"

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Only if you were really looking carefully, and *thinking*, would you 
realize this early on that she wasn't as playfully violent as she usually 
pretended to be.  But that would change...

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All I can say is...  Plucky?

	White Wolf <wwolf@cais.cais.com>

Hey Sap could have sprung the Warner Brothers (and their sister Dot) on 
them.

	Ben Harrison <72440.2345@compuserve.com>

To the illustrious members of the fanfic mailing list:

Could someone tell me how Kunou would greet Akane?  I'm not to familiar 
with Kunou-ese.

Many thanks and may visions of anime dance through your heads. 


Sapphire, The Blue Tigress
"Call me Sapphy, and you die. Rwarr!"

So I get a little silly when I'm a bit tired - Biteme (be warned I bite 
back)

	The Blue Tigress <sapphire@uclink.berkeley.edu>

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I've seen worse.  *grin*

On October 3rd, another interesting character joined the FFML.

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From: AlberCrombie <cesnyd01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu>
Subject: Re: You learn something new every day.
To: fanfic@andrew.cais.com
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 19:32:28 -0400 (EDT)




On Tue, 3 Oct 1995, White Wolf wrote:

Hi! I'm Roy Rim, I'm a baka!!

	hahahahaha, BLEH!!

RR [I'm a Baka!!]


I'm going to show my age here....;)


He's a baka, she's a baka, wouldn't you like to be a baka too?

Be a baka - watch lots of anime.
Be a baka - watch lots of anime.

[2 points if you know where this came from.]

AlberCrombie.
                                                                           
--==-=-=-=-=-====-==-----===-=-====-----=-==-=-=-=-=-===-=-====-=----===-
===
                    cesnyd01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu                   
               URL: http://www.spd.louisville.edu/~cesnyd01/               
              AlberCrombie ---- The One And Only Space Gopher              
                                                                           
             	"Never open the door to the knock at midnight,               
                          when the moon does not shine."                   
                                  AlberCrombie.

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He put up some pretty good competition for attention, for a while.  8)

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Er, btw, how _do_ you pronounce Sapphy? *smile*

Wing. [still working on a idea for a fanfic... *head thuds onto table*]

	Wing Tang Wong <wwong8@calstatela.edu>

If you don't know, I'm not telling ;)

If you need an idea, how about this one?
       Wakko Warner calls for pizza and reaches Belldandy
              or
       The Warners as Urd, Belldandy, and Skuld

I thought about doing this myself then realized I have only the vaguest 
ideas of what Ah, My Goddess is about and what the characters look like 
or do.

Sapphire, The Blue Tigress (wondering when she'll get around to watching 
AMG)
"Add a little magic to your life - call for a pizza delivery"

	The Blue Tigress <sapphire@uclink.berkeley.edu>

Hi Tigress,

  Warners as the Goddesses? *screams for a LONG time...*

  I'm not even going to go there... ;)

  But I thought of perhaps a "Pinky and the Brain and Urd."

  Thanks for the idea! ;)

  Wing. [ Cute is in the eye of the beholder! How about posting a pic and
letting us decide? *smile*]

	Wing Tang Wong <wwong8@calstatela.edu>

On Thu, 12 Oct 1995, White Wolf wrote:
On Wed, 11 Oct 1995, John Peasley wrote:

#RANMA!, BGC, SNES, MK, KI, SF.  
R1/2, MDew, C++, IRC, KOR, KOC, TPath!

That's sick.  I knew what every one of those meant.

Good for you!  Now tell me what they all mean.  I only know (or think I 
know) about half of them. :)

I have no life...

[Cheesy elevator music plays in the background as the scene opens on a 
smiling man sitting behind a desk.]

Man:  Have no life?  We can help!  Just call the Please, Please, Please 
Get a Life Foundation!

[Scene shifts to a white padded cell with patient and 2 doctors in lab 
coats]

[Voiceover]:  Our trained professionals will use specialized techniques 
to help.

[The 2 doctors nod at each other, pull out huge mallets and advance on 
the patient.]

[Scene shift to a college cafe.  Patient is sitting with *REAL* people.]

Patient (smiling at camera):  Just look what PPPGALF did for me!

[Scene shift back to man and desk]

Man:  It's not too late!  Call NOW and you, too, can have a life!

[Please, Please, Please Get a Life Foundation and an 800 number appear on 
the screen for 10 seconds.]

[Fadeout]

	The Blue Tigress <sapphire@uclink.berkeley.edu>

#RANMA! is an IRC channel for Ranma, BGC is Bubblegum Crisis, SNES is 
Super Nintendo, MK is Mortal Kombat, KI is Killer Instinct, SF is Street 
Fighter, R1/2 is Ranma 1/2, MDew is Mountain Dew, C++ is a programming 
language, IRC is Internet Relay Chat, KOR is Kimigure Orange Road, KOC is 
Kimigure Orange College, TPath is Twisted Path.

BTW, I think I misspelled Kimigure.

I have no life...

[snipped amusing vingette]

Thanks Sapphy!

	White Wolf <wwolf@cais.cais.com>

*sighs thinking it's a good thing she's changing her tag line. Some 
people have no self control in the face of temptation.*

Oh, by the way, have a free side order of spam:

SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM!

Sapphire, The Blue Tigress
(hates when people add `y' to the end of her name)

	The Blue Tigress <sapphire@uclink.berkeley.edu>

On Thu, 12 Oct 1995, They Bluey Tigressy wrote:

Sapphire, The Blue Tigress
(hates when people add `y' to the end of her name)



And why would that bother you?  Sappirey?

	Bruce Brunk <brbrunk@agora.rdrop.com>

I don't mind it when people have 'y' at the end of their names when it's 
supposed to as in 'Lucy' or 'Daisy' but adding it to be cutesy as in 
'shaun-y' or 'Jane-y' is a bit much.  My name doesn't end in 'y' and I 
don't want to be called 'cute'.  I AM NOT CUTE!  There, I feel better ;)

Sapphire, The Blue Tigress (wishing she could erase the word 'cute' 
written all over her yearbook)
"I am *not* *cute*!"

	The Blue Tigress <sapphire@uclink.berkeley.edu>

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This started the "I am not cute!" threads.  A lot of them.  Meanwhile, I 
was busy finding out just what kinds of tastes the FFML subscribers had...

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<Aaron Stolz> What in the world is Blake's 7?

If you've ever seen Doctor Who, it's got about that level of special
effects.  If you've ever seen the original Star Trek series, it's got
that kind of a story.

The plot, briefly:  There's a guy named Blake (obviously), who *was* the
leader of a resistance group against a rather overweening Federation.
He was caught, mindwiped, forced to "confess" that "I was misguided", etc.,
and then even that was mindwiped.  They couldn't kill him, because then
he'd be a martyr, and there were enough of the crumbling resistance left
who didn't believe his confession.  Anyway, that's all before the story
starts.

In the first episode, he finds some of this out.  During the series, he
and a group of others (hence the name, Blake's 7) go cruising around the
galaxy, fighting for the rebellion.

Oh yeah.  It's not anime.  :)

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Then I posted my second attempt at prose.  "Scyth".

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<Wolf> Both of you have written using the same characters before.  I'm 
talking
	about the way you treated them.  Hitomi wanted to write about the
	relationship between them.  You wrote about what was happening 
around
	them more.

* Hitomi hems and haws...

<Hitomi> I did spend several years writing romance novels...

* Hitomi blushes

<Hitomi> I guess that training carried over.  I'll try to have a more 
rounded view 
	of the characters in the future.

<Damon> Wait.  Isn't this a *good* thing?

<Damon> So, who's read mine?  Scyth, that is.

<Hitomi> I read it, but it is not really something that holds me.  I never 
went in 
	 much for x-file type stories anyways, so it is probably a personal 
bias.  
	 I really have no comment on it.

<Damon> Oh well.

<Damon> I didn't exactly mean for it to be purely X-Filesish, especially 
with the
	focus on Laura after that.  I tried to write it more as an 
"emotional"
	type story, rather than horror/X-Files towards the end.  Maybe I 
need to
	fix it up a bit.

<Damon> Guess I'm a "romantic" too.  *weak smile*

	White Wolf <wwolf@cais.cais.com>
	Hitomi Ichinohei <hitomi@escape.ca>
	Damon Casale <dc56+@andrew.cmu.edu>

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I'd always wondered if anyone paid any attention to this.  Well, it 
certainly showed later.  *smile*

If there was a reason to pay attention to it, it might have been the Blue 
Lightning chapters I started posting fairly soon after that comment.  
Scifi/romance/angst, it's a very heavy, moody story.  Which needed a lot of 
work from the comments I got.  *shrug*

Comments?  Did I mention comments?  Guess who sent some.  Why would she, 
supposedly playfully violent and heavily into comedy for all I knew, have 
any interest in an angst ridden story like this one?  But my brain was 
nonfunctional, and I didn't really think much of it back then...

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"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"I think so, Brain, but Kuno and Kasumi? What would the children be like?"

"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"I think so, Brain, but if we didn't have ears, we'd look like weasels."

"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"I think so, Brain, but I can't memorize a whole opera in Yiddish."

"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"I think so, Brain, but elephants and kumquats aren't genetically 
 compatible."

"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"I think so, Brain, but where will we find an open tattoo parlor at this 
 time of night?"

"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"I think so, Brain, but me and Pippi Longstocking... I mean, what would 
 the children look like?"

"Four score and seven years ago,
 our forefathers...
             ...had a tea party."

"1/2 can BAKA Pepper, 1 computer console, 1 assembly line.  Add power 
surge.  Mix well.  Serves the whole population of MegaTokyo."

	The Blue Tigress <sapphire@uclink.berkeley.edu>

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After I'd reread some of these .sigs, I started to worry a little.  
*quirked grin*

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<Ben> How about them making Quincy (or Mason/Largo depending on were you
	place them in time) their "SPECIAL FRIEND"  <cue several people
	scrambling for cover>

<Sapphire> *looks suspiciously at Ben*  Have you been peeking? 

<Ben> Nope, just guessing based on how I see the Warners act.

<Ben> Plan to have them run into the KS? 

<Sapphire> Of course!  Don't you want to see Priss's reaction when the 
Warner 
	Brothers pop up and go 'Hellooo Rock Star Nurse!'?  :)

<Ben> Especially after she fires the entire ammo supply of her rail gun . . 
.
	And misses with every shot!!

<Sapphire> On second thought, you couldn't have peeked. 

<Ben> Oww, Priss is going to get along with them??  Or is the abrasive side 
of
	her just going to bounce off the Warners?

<Ben> Of course Nene will most likely get along with them well.

<Sapphire> Well, with all those plushies she's got, she's likely to take 
them home 
	with her as pets and...  [A red-black monster pops up]  

	AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!

	[Dot jumps into Sapphire's arms and gives her a big hug.]

	Dot:  Oh, you found my pet!  Thank you!

	[Dot puts her pet away and runs off.]

	Ahem.  As I was saying about Nene...   NO COMMENT!  :)

Sapphire, The Blue Tigress
"Anime Express - Never leave home without it!"

<Ben> Then again, until you finish the story it might be safest.

	But I just got the image of people doing a room by room search
	The Warners hide in Nene's collection (ala E.T.)
	the Searchers miss them
	The the Warners harass the people who invaded their friend
	Nene's Home!!

	Ben Harrison <72440.2345@compuserve.com>
	The Blue Tigress <sapphire@uclink.berkeley.edu>

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After this, everyone started getting into the Warner Brothers crossover 
act, two of the most notable contributors being AlberCrombie and Bentley.  
(archive posts 1422, 1438, and 1463)  Oh, did I forget to mention mine?  
<G>  (archive posts 1466, 1468, and 1478)

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<Sapphire> Poor Hitomi!  Doomed to spend her life as an anime model! :)

* Hitomi winces

<Sapphire> Heh.  As far as I know, there are no blue tigers in anime. 
*GRIN*

<Hitomi> Watch me create one.  Just for you.

<Sapphire> Hey, cool!  Just make sure it isn't a cute fluffy blue tiger :)

<AlberCrombie> AH, HAH!  We can fix that!!!!!!  Somebody stick a cute, 
cuddly,
	fuzzy little stuffed Blue Tiger (sorta like a stuffed Mughi doll) 
into a fan fic,
	quick!

	No one shall be safe!
	(this coming from a Space Gopher - go fig.)

<Sapphire> cute? Cute?  CUTE??!!??!!

	_I_ _AM_ _NOT_ _CUTE_ !!!

*Sapphire calms down a bit

	I wouldn't mind being in a fanfic though ;)

Sapphire, The Blue Tigress
"I am NOT CUTE!"

	The Blue Tigress <sapphire@uclink.berkeley.edu>
	Hitomi Ichinohei <hitomi@escape.ca>
	AlberCrombie <cesnyd01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu>

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After this, I started to wonder a bit more...  8^)

Hitomi seemed to mind all of the attention she was getting, concerning 
being
compared to characters in anime.  So Saf made a friendly suggestion...

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Hitomi,

Want me to express some shiny new anvils straight from Anvilania?
Just pick a size.  Then you can anvil Ben and anyone else.  :)

<CLANG!>

Oops!  Dropped one, sorry.  :)

Sapphire, The Blue Tigress
"Dragon! Dragon! Dragon! Dragon! <CLANG!>"

	The Blue Tigress <sapphire@uclink.berkeley.edu>

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Saf then made a *small* mistake.  If she'd only known what she was 
starting...
*chuckle*

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<Bentley> "Smaller Boomer: Barney was busy. And the Cabbit Death Squad and
	the Bounty Hunter Blue Tigress from Yavin would have eaten us."

<Sapphire> Bounty Hunter?  How did you know?

* Sapphire pulls out a wanted - spammed or alive poster of Rob.  "All 
right, come
	along quietly and you won't get hurt."  :)

<Sapphire> Yavin?  I'm not from Yavin.  I'm from The Golden Grove!  A 
lovely little 
	forest with tall trees, babbling brooks, and... the finest ginsu 
knives 
	in the universe!  Call now and you'll receive our _free_ booklet on 
how 
	to chop up your own criminals!....  Ahem.  Sorry.  Scratch that 
last bit 
	about the knives.  The Golden Grove is in no way connected with 
that 
	cutthroat company.  :)

*Sapphire wonders if she should just let the ML write The Bubblegum Warners
	and just put it all together...

Sapphire, The Blue Tigress
"Bounty Hunter from The Golden Grove - for hire"

	The Blue Tigress <sapphire@uclink.berkeley.edu>

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Being a bounty hunter was not a good idea on a list full of comedians.  
*shrug*  Especially when "wanted:  spammed or alive" showed up in several 
.sigs.

For some odd reason, I'd been playing with a few music modules (S3M's) I'd 
found on ftp.cdrom.com one day, and decided to label two of them the "theme 
music" for Blue Lightning.  After tinkering with one a bit, that is.  I 
asked the list if they were interested...and found that a certain Tigress 
was, to my surprise.  After about two weeks of giving her some technical 
help with her WinDoze setup, it finally worked.  And she enjoyed the moody 
pieces I'd found.  Wonder of wonders...

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<Damon> The subject matter seems a bit...monochromatic? of late.  Color me
	crazy, but...

    *SOMETHING ELSE BESIDES RANMA!*

	Please?

	You may now return to your regularly scheduled spam.  :-)

<DaR> We are Ranma.  Other stories are irrelavant.  You will be 
assimiliated.

* DaR keels over and dies laughing.  "Sorry.  That was to much to pass up."

<Damon> Okay, you wanna play bad-Star-Trek-jokes, do ya?

	Lessee...

    "Analysis, Spock."
    "Fascinating, Captain.  This race of beings appears to consist
entirely of dried ink.  A highly unusual occurrence, if I may be so bold."

    "Saeba-san, did you invite these two?"
    "No.  What's the point?"

    Kaori pulled out a 100,000-horsepower mallet.  "Fine, I'll take care
of 'em."

	SPAM!!!

	Joke at your own risk.  ;)

<Sapphire> *sarcasm mode on*

	Are you not getting all the posts or something?  I distinctly 
recall 
	posting a Bubblegum Crisis/Animaniacs story on Sunday and I don't
	recall writing Ranma into there at all.

<Damon> Yeah, yeah.  But you got my point.  (and check out my spam!  ;)

<Sapphire> *sarcasm mode off*

	You are right though.  There *does* seem to be an awful lot of 
Ranma on 
	this list.  Although I think the overall winner is SPAM! SPAM!
	WONDERFUL SPAM!  ;P

Sapphire, The Blue Tigress
"Procrastinator Extraordinaire"
(I'll finish BGW and Nabiki and the Airship eventually - in 3 months 
maybe? :)

<Damon> Nah, I could do with more variety in my diet.  Spam is okay, but I 
get
	the runs after a while.  8^)

<Sapphire> How about

	SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, BEANS, AND SPAM?

              or

	SPAM, SPAM, EGGS, AND SPAM?

	<rest of the menu deleted for brevity (and cuz I'm too lazy to type 
it)>

Sapphire, The Blue Tigress
"Mad as a hatter!"
"Maybe, or maybe not, but she's definitely a silly little thing"
"Who are you calling _little_?  I'm *beep* tall!  I just hang around with 
beanpoles and giants!"

<Gallifrey> That's right!  If you don't write a Ranma fanfic you're not 
part 
	of this list's elite. :)  So get crackin'!

<Damon> Sorry, I don't *do* Ranma.  Come on, Lupin III anyone?  There's 
gotta
	be a thousand decent plotlines waiting there.

<Sapphire> Sounds like maybe *you* should do Lupin III since you've 
obviously
	seen it and are a fan.  :)

<Damon> But I'm busy writing Blue Lightning and Scyth, part II!  :&(

<Sapphire> Personally, I haven't seen it yet.  But I will sooner or later.  
:)

Sapphire, The Blue Tigress
"Anime Hunter - Who cares about bounties?  I'll hunt Anime for free!"

<Damon> Umm, yeah.

<Charles> The reason why there are so many Ranma Fan-fics on this list is
	because Ranma Fan-fics are the easiest to write. It's one of the 
closest
	Animes to reality.

<Roy> Close to reality?  Perhaps Maison Ikkoku.  But the real reason is 
	because Ranma hits a stability point.  Nothing new ever really 
happens.  
	And characters never really change.

<Damon> NANI??  A boy (or is it a girl?) and his/her father (or is it a 
panda?),
	do the martial arts thing.  Ranma/Ranko and co. have a half a dozen
	love polygons (as opposed to triangles), etc.  Reality?  Maison 
Ikkoku is
	just a *bit* closer, thanks.

	:)

<Wolf> REALITY?!?!?  Ack, sorry.  Actually I think they're easy to write 
because 
	Ranma is the sitcom of anime.

<Damon> And the one with the least point to it.  Maison Ikkoku is more
	meaningful, and harder to write, IMOHO.

<Bellamy> Ranma is one of the only animes with well defined characters. 
Most
	people can think of "What would Ranma do here..." or "What would 
Kuno
	say if..."  Many other animes lack sensitivity or are overdramatic. 
This can be
	the result of bad dubbs/subs. Ranma is also one of the most 
entertaining
	anime/mangas.

<Damon> Maison Ikkoku can compete beautifully, then.  It certainly does 
*not* lack
	sensitivity, and although some may consider it overdramatic, their 
tastes
	would tend towards the silly anyway.  Mine don't, and that's one 
reason I
	can't deal with Ranma.

<Charles> Well that [Ranma is the sitcom of anime] too. But I think most 
Anime are
	a little too farfetched to write a resonable story about them. Take 
for example 	Tenchi Muyo. It's one of my favorite animes but you can't 
really make any good 	stories out of it unless you deviate a lot from the 
original.
	But then I could be wrong. Nah.

<Damon> Okay, try Lupin III.  You don't really have to deviate from the 
original,
	since the "original" deviated alot from *itself* anyway.  :)  As I 
said
	before, there's tons of good stories waiting to be written on this 
one.

	But I don't have the time.  Or the plot.  *sigh*

<Steve>  Maro To.

<Damon> If you don't cut that out, Steve...

<Steve>  We slice, we dice!

<Damon> Ugh!  :)

	(I must be *really* bored; I'm writing dialogue for a friend of 
mine)

<DaR> That's half of it.  The other half is that the Ranma-verse has no
	real closure.  Maison Ikkoku has a very distinct 
beginning/middle/end
	and resolves all the relationships that occur.  Kimagure Orange 
Road is
	much the same way. Tenchi Muyo has closure because it's a 
developing
	story with no real gaps in it yet.  Trying to insert a story into 
one
	of these is tough, since you have to be sure that it doesn't affect 
the
	continuity, or if it does then you have to insure that the universe 
has
	somewhere to go afterwards.

<Damon> That's one of the main reasons why fanfics on MI, etc., are so 
scarce.
	But even so, they're doable.

	If all else fails, there's always Lupin III, folks.  Or Spirit of 
Wonder.

<DaR> Ranma on the other hand is very episodic... there isn't a terrible 
amount
	of development between the characters in the span of a couple 
episodes.

<Damon> There are spans of Maison Ikkoku where the same thing can be said.

<DaR> This leaves it kinda open for people to throw short adventures into
	it without affecting the continuity at all.  In additition Ranma 
has
	a lot of different relationships (both in the romantic polygons and
	the other intercharacter relations) on which to hang plot threads.
	However it isn't too open, like UY, which has too *much* 
openness...
	there's no real goal for any of the characters, just a different 
weirdness
	every episode.  That's too boring to write as fanfic.

	 It's kind of interesting if you note which TV/manga series have 
the most
	quanitity and best quality fanfics written.  In pure quantity it's 
Ranma,
	BGC, Robotech, and then DP.  Quality-wise, IMO at least, about the 
same,
	possibly switching DP and Robotech (Ryan Matthews and Larry Mann's
	series are great).  If you stop and think these are also the same 
series with
	a good amount of openness and well-defined characters.  Robotech
	seems to be an exception in that more often the stories have 
new/made
	up characters since the plot focuses more on the mecha than the 
people.
	The other thing is that these are all the more popular/commonly 
seen
	series, most likely since the universes are good to start with.

<Damon> I would *not* restrict the "best quality" to those.  I'd say that 
the best
	quality stories show up in quantity, in those.  Ne?

<DaR> As Damon pointed out though, there are some other series that could
	easily be turned into fanfics.  I think Ah-My-Goddess is an 
excellent
	platform for people looking to do romantic comedy, and Gundam would 
be
	superb for those more interested in action/mecha.  For those who've
	read Gunsmith Cats, that would be another easy to work with action
	series.  And the one that suprises me is the lack of City-Hunter
	fiction.... Hmmm... now I've got images in my head...

<Damon> Go ahead.  City Hunter, I'd love to see a fanfic of.

<DaR> Wow.  That turned out to be quite the lecture/rant.   I'm inspired 
now.
	As soon as I finish my homework maybe I'll go jot down some ideas 
for
	some things.

<Roy> What, you [Damon] didn't like my Arslaan fanfic?  Or the 
Godzilla/R1/2/
	Nuku crossover?  Or maybe you just like the two billion BGC stories 
on
	ftp.std.com?

<Damon> I took a look at the Arslaan thing, but Quantum was calling that
	night.  It got deleted.  Godzilla I sent out to lunch; I wasn't in 
the mood
	for that amount of silliness.  And I usually stay away from BGC.

	Maybe I should be a bit more specific in my requests.

	SciFi.  SciFi/Romance.  Romantic Comedy.  Comedy.

	It has to have a point, (unlike UY) no magic, (unlike Ranma/AMG!) 
but
	not *too* serious.

	Maybe I'm limiting myself a bit much, but those are my (usual) 
genres of
	choice.

<Sapphire> Hmm...scifi/romance/comedy...

	...outer space/love triangle/silly traits or attitudes...

	...a point...no magic...not too serious...

	...interspecies relations...lots of gadgets...

	...hmm...

	...maybe I should start on this later as I already have two stories 
to 
	finish that are competing for the first and second finished fanfic 
spots :)

	You've given me a great idea for a story though.  thanks!  :)

Sapphire, The Blue Tigress
"Quit with the new ideas and finish developing your old ones!"
"All right!  All right!  I'm working on them!"
(Hmm...talking to myself...bad sign...Warning! Identity/ies crisis in 
progress!)

<Damon> Uh oh.  What have I done?  ;)

	Anyway, not too silly either.  As I said, it has to have a point to 
the
	comedy.  UY and Irresponsible Captain Tylor don't.  MI does.  For
	example.

<Sapphire> What sort of 'point' do you want?  Needle point? A point of 
view? A
	point of departure?  Maybe that's beside the point.  I was on the 
point of 
	getting to the point of this message but my brain seems to have 
pointed 
	me in the wrong direction.  I'll try to make a point of not doing 
that 
	next time. ;) 

	(Sorry,  I just couldn't resist this pointless post. *grin*)

Sapphire, The Blue Tigress  pointedly remarks,
"I can't believe I'm contributing to the pun-pulation"

<Damon> How about a hardpoint?  "Missiles, launched!"  *Grrr*...

	Hey Steve, lemme borrow that katana for a second.  I need to make a
	point.

	...

	Maro To, whatever.  No?  Oh, well.  I'll have to settle for a point 
of
	impact.  [whips out 100,000-horsepower anime mallet]  WHAM!!

	Senseless comedy offends my sensibilities.  8)

<Damon> BTW, am I replying to this thread far, far too often or something?  
:)

	Damon Casale <dc56+@andrew.cmu.edu>
	Charles C. Liu <charlesl@thirdwave.net>
	White Wolf <wwolf@cais.cais.com>
	Bellamy <BELLAMY@delphi.com>
	Dan Root <dar@ghost.res.cmu.edu>
	Sailor Gallifrey <omega@io.org>
	The Blue Tigress <sapphire@uclink.berkeley.edu>
	Roy Rim <rr568@bard.edu>
	Steve J. <the-back-of-Damon's-head>

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	This thread just went on and on...

	For some odd reason, people who liked Ranma seemed to enjoy teasing 
me, since I didn't.  *sigh*  But I can truthfully claim the first .sig 
characters (which migrated into the message 8P  ) on the FFML!  YAY!!  
*grin*  And it looks like Saf was the
second.  8)  And it looks like the silliness between us was just the 
beginning. *HUGE grin*

Stay tuned for the next installment of the scrapbook...



Damon Casale, scyth@andrew.cmu.edu

				* Love *
                 Between two people, there is nothing that
                      can draw them closer together