I've been reading the Talswapr awards and other fanfic reviews, and it
seems to me that alot of the critics seem to enjoy the more
serious Ranma stories, a departure from the usual Takahashi mayhem.  My
Ranma/SM fanfic basically sticks to the original formula, and I've only
gotten positive responses to it (no flames), but I was wondering if most
people enjoyed the more serious Ranma stories.  I feel expanding the Ranma
characters or placing them in different situations is fine, (Mark
Latus does a great job of this) but think many people go beyond that and
change the characters.  Do people actually prefer vast differences in the
Ranma characters they know and love?  Or is the original hijinks Takahashi
started prefered? 

I definately prefer the original Ranma to 'serious' stuff or OOC stuff...
(If you all didn't guess already!)

One more thing, I'm just wondering what the average response to a fanfic
is.  Ranma/SM was my first work, and I'm wondering if I should be happy
with the decent number of comments I've had or if my writing is such
mindless dribble people most people don't even bother flaming.

Normally .... oh, maybe 2 - 5 or so replies to a normal 'fic that you
actually spend time working on and getting it right... Other 'fics that
you throw off in a day or less seem to generate much more response...
Or 'fics that are very controversial get lots of response, but that's
mainly 'discussions' on if the characters should act the way they were
reacting in the 'fic, or not ...

Kun-chan...