At 09:21 PM 8/4/97 GMT, Gary Kleppe wrote:

On Mon, 4 Aug 1997 15:15:32 -0400 (EDT), Key <michael.h.chen@yale.edu>
wrote:

The tyranny of Ranma 1/2 is crumbling!

Forgive my ignorance, but what tyrrany are we talking about?

Have writers of non-Ranma fics been thrown into dungeons? Had their
knees broken? Had their net access cancelled? I'd really like to know.

WHOA! Are you trying to tell me that all those mysterious fanfic writer
disappearances ARE NOT due to writers leaving in frustration from a total
lack of response! My GOD! Is there a group of Anime Fanfic Hit-men/women
who constantly pole the list for lousy fics, and then visit those writers,
making sure they never write again? How does one join this hit group?  

I'm not trying to pick on Key in particular here -- I've been seeing a
*lot* of this kind of comment lately. As someone who decides for myself
what to read and write, and allows others to do the same, I ask all of
you: What is the problem?

The problem is ego, babe! Yea! Groovy! 

And BTW, Ranma fics do not automatically get loads of C&C, as some
people may think. Things are rough all over. I know one author who
abandoned his series midway through and left FFML because of the
near-zero response he got from it. And yes, it was a Ranma fic.

This all makes me wonder. In ten years, will Ranma still be the 'hip' thing
to write? That is, if the FFML is still around in ten years. Hmmm... And if
not Ranma? What will? 
Maybe instead of fanfics, there will be fan-films. Yea! Instead of just
writing fics, they'll act them out and tape 'em. And by then, the Internet
bandwidth will have improved enough to actually send stuff like that over
the net. Of course, ten years from now, Anime will have engulfed the world.
Nothing will be free of it's grasp. Or is it that way already? 

I must apologize in advance for this. This post serves no real purpose what
so ever, accept to annoy. Wait-a-sec, how can I be apologizing in advance
if I'm apologizing as the very last thing. I deserve to be shot! SHOT! I
TELL YOU!
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