Subject: Re: Info on Shampoo
From: "Mr. the Rutsch" <jdrutsch@ucdavis.edu>
Date: 5/28/1996, 10:05 PM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

On Tue, 28 May 1996, Jack Ji wrote:

I need some info on Shampoo for my FF.

Is Shampoo a virgin?

Yes, but...

I really think you should consider not making the lemon side-story of your 
FF publically available.  This is for a few reasons, a large one being that 
self-insertion fanfics are fighting for credibility to begin with, and 
making the author have sex with an anime character is a great way to lose 
credibility.  

In addition, it's pretty much the nature of self-insert things that, in 
terms of the story, readers don't really care about the self-inserted 
author.  The inserted author can only be appreciated as a Joe 
Average...not supposed to be interesting, as much as providing an 
alternate viewpoint to the anime universe.  It seems to be the general 
concensus of everybody who ever lived that graphic written descriptions 
of sex aren't interesting in and of themselves, but can be an interesting 
plot device between interesting characters...so it's hard to justify a 
lemon Shampoo/author scene.      

If you really want to write the scene, maybe you just want to keep it to 
yourself...especially as it's a side-story, not critical to the plot.  

All this is IMHO,

Jeff

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