On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Nick Leifker wrote:

Just a question for you all out there.

If you had a brilliant idea for a story, one that would knock the socks
off people, but one that you knew would get bad press from a few
overzealous, overauthoritative people, would you write it?  Would you

Yes.  I've also written letters to the newspaper that resulted in people
threatening to beat me up and had fraternity members stalking me.  In
fact, the staff of the newspaper itself used to print little editorial
comments on my letters in which they made fun of me because of my Pro-Life
opinions.  I've had people call me at 2 AM in the morning and threaten to
beat me up.  But I kept writing anyway.

Frankly, I think you vastly overestimate Gary's influence.  

Next question?

release it, knowing that it would cause you a lot of unnecessary grief?

What unnecessary grief?  You can just delete their email if you don't
agree with them.  End of story.

Gary's goal is to see that the characterizations are as close to Takahashi
as possible.  However, by encouraging this 'right characterization', he
closes doors, rather than opens them.  My goal is different.  I want to

I honestly don't believe every door needs to be opened.  But more
importantly, Gary has no power over any other author that such an author
doesn't give them.

I make no apologies for what I said.  I still say Gary's a hypocrite, as
he expects of others what he himself isn't able to give.  I still say
Gary's harming fanfiction, for the reasons above.  And I have yet to hear

Examples?  Authors who have given up on a story because of Gary's
comments?

a response from him that he would EVER be willing to do otherwise.
Perhaps my earlier message was too inflammatory, but the reasoning behind
it has yet to be disproven.  

And how would someone disprove your earlier message?  Read the minds and
souls of every fanfic author?  Contact everyone in the universe to see if
Gary bullied them out of writing?  As far as I can tell, you've taken a
position that given the evidence we have available can't be proven or
disproven.  
 

John Walter Biles :  MA-History, Ph.D Wannabe at U. Kansas         
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