The Eternal Lost Lurker wrote:

Okay...

Utterly pointless, completely OOC, seriously contrived...and hardly what
I'd call a spamfic. A spamfic generally entails some sort of twist ending,
a punchline that the entire fic leads up to. 

I was tempted to repost "The Contest".  I would have, if I hadn't 
posted it so recently.  The thought which crossed my
mind was, "How could a plan by Ranma to fake his own suicide attempt and 
scare all the fiancees into having things all his own way _fail_ to go 
wrong?".  

This read more like...I don't

know. 

It's a rant-fic, a fictional way to scold the fiancees (especially 
Akane) for making poor-poor Ranma's life so difficult.  As such, it's 
really better than average.  I wrote one once myself, scolding a fanfic 
Ukyo from someone else's story.  Not my best work.  

There was absolutely nothing entertaining about this.

Kodachi and Nabiki were in-character, but then, their

Except for the part where Kodachi talks to Harvey.  

 characterizations

aren't that difficult to pin down. Everyone else was completely off,
especially Kasumi and Ranma.

Suggestion: Go through the story, and replace every instance of 'Kasumi'
with 'Nodoka', because that's what she's acting like.

Fanfic Nodoka, at least.  Still, Nodoka is usually used in this role 
because she:

   a:  Has authority over Ranma, something which is not true
of Kasumi.
   b:  Appears to give a damn about Ranma, something that isn't 
obviously true of Kasumi.  

However, Nodoka wouldn't go along with this plan because she's a woman
of honour.  

As for Ranma...not something he'd do. At least, not something he'd do and
manage to pull off.

In short, this is the ultimate example of how *not* to execute a
continuation-style fanfic.

It had an element that struck me clever, making me think that Kasumi was 
going to solve Ranma's problems by killing all them, starting with 
Akane, then Nabiki...  

I can only say two good things about this:

1. The writing was technically superb.

2. It was mercifully short.