Subject: Re: An open letter to Robert Morrision
From: KLEPPE@execpc.com (Gary Kleppe)
Date: 4/16/1997, 1:01 PM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

On Wed, 16 Apr 1997 11:11:17 -0600 (MDT), Chris Davies wrote:
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, ROBERT   MORRISON wrote:

And once more I must protest the usage of the DIC names for the 
characters. People, if you are GOING to write Sailormoon fanfiction, 
USE THE RIGHT NAMES. Serena, Lita, Amy, Raye, Mina, Darien, Reeny, 
Molly, Chad, Andrew, Melvin, and others--DO NOT EXIST. Nor do the 
Sailor Scouts exist. Use the correct names or don't bother at all. 

	Get bent.

	Nobody, but NOBODY, has set you up as God of Sailor Moon
fanfiction.  How DARE you try to demand that the THOUSAND or so Sailor
Moon fanfic authors out there conform to your sense of aesthetics?

[etc.]

God DAMN, man. That was the biggest flame fest I've ever seen on the
FFML (granted I've only been on for five months).

You have a point, and you've made it, but couldn't you have done so in a
more reasonable manner? Yes, he WAS out of line to suggest that everyone
ought to use his naming preferences. Though I don't read any Sailor Moon
stuff myself, I can't imagine how using dub names could ever spoil a
good story. But wouldn't a simple "You are out of line here" have
sufficed?

Gary Kleppe
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