On 21 Jun 97 at 14:59, Redneck Gaijin wrote:

The reason we write fanfics is because we can ask ourselves the 
question "What if?". If we can't ask that question, and instead must 
limit ourselves to saying, "This is," then we've successfully 
eliminated the element of our own imaginations.

Well, consider this: THESE ARE NOT YOUR CHARACTERS. THIS IS NOT YOUR
UNIVERSE. At the very least, you owe some respect to the wishes and creative

Look, I DON'T OWE ANYTHING TO ANYBODY!!! (at least not in this 
respect. :) Neither does anyone else who writes fanfiction.  You may 
think you do, but you don't.

I will mention that they aren't your characters, either.  If the 
creators of a series have problems with something a fanfic author has 
done, then let them speak for themselves. 

ideas of the creator. Asking questions like, for instance, "What if this
android, which we know works, didn't really work?" spoils the story for me
before it begins. 

Your problem, not ours.  If you don't like a story, that's what the 
DELETE key is for.  Use it.  Whining to the list won't get you 
anything except laughed at, and perhaps a few enemies.

BTW, why don't you follow the advice in the last line of your .sig?

One of the projects I'm working on, "Ecchi 1/2," is almost entirely a new
universe, except it starts with the basic prototypes of the R 1/2 charas.
Basically, I recast them, or I intensified them, basically rewriting them
from the ground up. I'm fully aware of how hypocritical this makes me. All I
can say in defense is, I make no pretense of it being a Ranma 1/2 story.
Ecchi 1/2 is a total reboot.

Whatever you say.

Somehow I recall having this exact same argument before, and I get 
the distinct impression that I have about as much chance of 
convincing Redneck of anything as I do of convincing Kunou that Ranma 
and the Pigtailed Goddess are the same person. :)

Well, maybe I'll go write a Ranma fic that's totally alien to the 
Ranmaverse and features a massively OOC Akane.  Just for you, 
Redneck. :) 

- Sean Connor (connor@meena.cc.uregina.ca)

        "It jams." - Intel TV ad, referring to the Pentium chip.