And with this, I get my inbox below 3850 messages. Wai!
Subject:
[FFML] [Ranma][Xover][TenchiOVA] The Chosen chapter 1
Date:
Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:07:43 -0500
From:
"X-ile" <tapham@vt.edu>
Description: Ranma decides to let Mommy fix all his problems
while he runs away. After all, that's the "manly" thing
to do, right?
Comments: Apparently this is an unadvertised Invasion of
the Body Snatchers crossover as Ranma suddenly can't cope
with the idea of fighting a lot, and Nodoka thinks that
if a promise causes you pain it is OK not to fulfill it.
Meanwhile Nabiki is intimidated by a threat of legal action even
though she hasn't been doing anything illegal. As "Nodoka
solves Ranma's problems" stories go, this one is peculiarly
strained and implausible.
Subject:
[FFML] [FIC][REPOST][RANMA] The Hunted, ch. 1
Date:
Tue, 18 Jan 2000 21:45:11 -0500 (EST)
From:
Jed M Bidwell <Jedediah@tri-countynet.net>
Description: Most Dangerous Game with Akane and Nabiki.
Comments:Still a good idea. I'd suggest that you have Ranma
arrive just a little bit too late to rescue the girls because
they've already got the upper hand.
Subject:
[FFML] [FFML][Ranma][WoF]#28: Shadow Weaver
Date:
Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:55:35 -0800
From:
Razorclaw X <spiceoflife@hotmail.com>
Description:
Comments: Some tensing errors.
but a single thing in common: Chika Hisho, Ayame's
friend and Shion's sister-in-law that may as well be
"that might"
Chika is regarded as a very talented and creative
girl by many, and she takes great pride in her work. So
"Chika was", "she took"
prototype combat armor suit model AS-00P, or just 'ASP'
for short. The eggheads like to call it 'Petunia.'"
Why don't they call it "Asp"?
And I think I've brought this up before, but if ki attacks
don't work on soul-less things, how is it that they are
useful in mining?
Subject:
[FFML] [RK] Killing is Our Business... And Business is Good
Date:
Mon, 17 Jan 2000 23:11:50 -0500
From:
"Bogue" <bogue@negia.net>
Description: Cyberpunk story with some kind of vague
connection to Ruroni Kenshin.
Comments: The government attorney can't be very competent.
He had a perfect double play there. Bust the bounty hunter
for attempted murder of an innocent citizen. The only
way the hunter can get out is to admit that he had reason
to think that the citizen was not so innocent.
It is of course not particularly plausible that criminals
who have already received their judicial punishment would
still have bounties on their head. _If_ you did have that
kind of wacky situation, then obviously there would be no
point in turning oneself into the authorities to escape
the hunters, save possibly that one believe that one would
be found innocent if tried.
Subject:
[FFML] [Fanfic] I Dream of Ranma, Episode 5
Date:
Mon, 17 Jan 2000 20:55:22 -0600
From:
Gary Kleppe <kleppe@mediaone.net>
Description: Akane decides to use Ranma's genie-powers
to impersonate Kasumi with Doctor Tofu. Wackiness ensues.
Comments: Having Ataru come along was a lucky break for
Nabiki. Made it easy. This is one of the rare occasions
where Tofu's "affliction" actually made things funny.
Subject:
[FFML] [FFML][BGC] "Mote in the Eye of Eternity" part 4
Date:
Mon, 17 Jan 2000 16:21:50 -0500
From:
Jerico Mele <jmele@brandeis.edu>
Description: A new group of Sabers is formed, 100 years
after the failure and death of the originals.
Comments: This "next generation" works well and I recommend
it to all.
historians mocked her mythic choice of subject material. It was the
constant harassment(and a humiliating April Fool's Day prank) that seald
"sealed"
>from her secret Patron. Isis, the name at the end of each letter,
written out in beautiful cursive.
Sentence fragment.
Subject:
[FFML] [Fic][Marmalade Boy][Chapt2][Spoiler]
Date:
Sun, 16 Jan 2000 22:19:24 -0600
From:
Kim Smuga-Otto <kmstephe@facstaff.wisc.edu
Description: Prequel explains how the bizarre marital
situation at the inception of Marmalade Boy came about.
Comments: This may actually be better because I've only
heard about MB and never seen it. Knowing who the four
characters pair off with in advance would be more or
less a spoiler for the pinball romance of the fic.
Subject:
[FFML] [fanfic][Ranma]The Path, pt.1
Date:
Mon, 10 Jan 2000 13:05:22 -0800 (PST)
From:
Morgan Hudson <Dataraven_659@excite.com>
Description: Another Ranma prequel.
Comments: Prequels seem to be a developing trend in these
parts. This Ranma prequel does a good a job of depicting Genma and Soun
as they might have been. I don't think the joke of
depicting Soun and Genma as a near match for Kuno and Ranma
in their first encounter actually poses a problem. Soun
does have samurai pretensions, and Genma does show a
difference from the start, in that he actually asked a
girl out. I am a little puzzled, why, if Soun and Genma
are facing desperate danger, they didn't ask Ranma to do
it for them. Maybe the ninja didn't give them time.
"Happosai"
his window. A pile of scrolls and books dwarfed the dimunitive master
"diminuitive"
Subject:
[FFML] [Fanfic][R.5] Pastpresent - Tourism, Part One
Date:
Tue, 18 Jan 2000 05:14:37 +1000 (EST)
From:
Susan Doenime <wendigo@zerlargal.humbug.org.au>
Description: The first Ranma prequel. Ranma and Soun
(and their girlfriends) are off on an Indiana Jones-esque
quest into Laos in the 1960s.
Comments: Packed with action and marvellous turns of
phrase.
Subject:
[FFML] [SM][Shorfic] Saving Humanity
Date:
Tue, 04 Jan 2000 21:50:47 +0100
From:
emeric.maury@free.fr
Description: Tyr, Norse god of war, is sent out to kill
the senshi.
Comments: Surely even Tyr would realise the hypocrisy
of an absolute monarch fearing the prospect of tyranny,
and how the heck would he even know what a Manichaen
perspective is? Studied much Christian history has he?
Subject:
[FFML] [FFML][SPAMfic] Shinji's 'Training'
Date:
Sun, 23 Jan 2000 00:44:26 EST
From:
"S. Zoogz Jamison" <zoogz2@hotmail.com>
Description: Shinji gets a personality transplant.
Comments: Oh well, at least it's an improvement over his
previous one.
Subject:
[FFML] [Ranma] [Fanfic] Relentless - Chapter 11
Date:
Sat, 22 Jan 2000 10:41:26 -0700
From:
Grayson Towler <grayson@rigroup.net>
Description: We take a break from the demonic terminator
thingy, mostly for a few laughs and a little rest and
recuperation.
Comments: Geez, that weakness is a little harsh. Still
I suppose she could always just hit the people who try
to spout poetry at her.
Subject:
[FFML] [Fanfic][R1/2][Fusion] The Saotome Gambit Part 2
Date:
Sat, 22 Jan 2000 10:48:07 -0700
From:
Jamie and Bridget Wilde <wildeman@psn.net>
Description: Space age Chinese Amazons in Giant Robots
are engaging in a bizarre experimentation program using
Star League Jyusenkyo Pools. Hilarity ensues.
Comments: The previous Battletech Ranmas that I have noticed
appear to have been done by teen-age boys for reasons
that are doubtless obvious. The maturity of perspective
in this version is a welcome change. It is also welcome
that in this one the Ranma characters have been left
with curses intact. It just isn't the same when people
start writing about a Ranma who isn't cursed, doesn't
know martial arts, has no engagements...
Why not the Kolkhoz Federation? Either that or the
Shiratori Empire. Federated Shiratori doesn't make a
lot of sense to me.
Subject:
[FFML] (fanfic) (x-over) (revised) Destiny's Path: Book1,
Chapter 1: The
Darkest Hour, The Path Unfolds
Date:
Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:07:28 -0500
From:
"Brian Yaple" <byapes@erie.net>
Description: I stand almost corrected as swarms of senshi
including a couple of original senshi in giant robots
charge into the end of the Evangelion series and clobber
everyone in sight.
Comments: Doesn't hang together particularly well. Where
the heck were they when everything was going on? They
just pop out of nowhere and solve everything with minimum
effort and maximum force. In any case the author needs to
pick a tense, present or past and stick with it.
Subject:
[FFML] [fanfic][omg][wip] Untitled Chapter 2
Date:
Mon, 24 Jan 2000 10:37:01 -0500 (EST)
From:
Michael Chen <michael.h.chen@yale.edu>
Description: In the tradition of the Book of Job, Kami-sama
and the Devil make a bet, and Belldandy and Mara must
switch places and see who is better in the other's role.
Comments: Gotta say, I think Mara will win this bet in
the end. But then as demons go she was pretty harmless.
But of course that means that Kami-sama really wins,
since the real stakes are not the supposed forfeit, but
the souls of Mara and Belldandy.
Subject:
[FFML] [fanfic][ranma][LIME] Comes the Cold Dragon
Date:
Sun, 23 Jan 2000 22:20:55 -0600
From:
Don Granberry <lunohoco@lunohoco.com>
Description: Ranma gets antsy.
Comments: You should be careful about using expressions
like "Tofu froze in place" under the circumstances.
Tofu wouldn't need to give Ranma aspirin. His techniques
are more effective and don't irritate the digestive tract.
"You see, the trouble with us men, is that we can't almost never
hide what we feel in that sort of situation, even if we are thinking
something quite different. As you no doubt noticed, our plumbing is a
little different."
This paragraph is ungrammatical, and doesn't make cartloads
of sense.
One notes that the 20% figure depends on your definition
of "homosexuality"
"You think Ranma has good reason to worry about me," she said
with a gasp as she looked up at his face, "Don't you, Dr. Tofu."
Question mark.
"I never take even bets against Ranma in a straight up fight,
unless his opponent is someone of extraordinary ability, like Happosai,
Shouldn't that be "against Ranma's opponent"?
On the whole I think this story may be a bit too talky.
The author would be well advised to go through it looking
for lines to cut. As far as Tofu punching out Genma,
perhaps Genma should demonstrate more clearly that he
needs his attention gotten.
Subject:
[FFML] [Fanfic][Ranma][Lime?] A Man Among Women
Date:
Tue, 25 Jan 2000 15:01:52 -0800 (PST)
From:
Vincent Seifert <seifertv@ccshp1.ccs.csus.edu>
Description: Ranma follows in the footsteps of Genji.
Comments: So good it's almost plausible. The tone is
right, all things considered.
Subject:
[FFML] [Fanfic][Fusion][EVA/SM] Sailor AngelS Episode 1
Date:
Tue, 25 Jan 2000 18:13:18 -0800
From:
"Kevin D. Hammel" <kevinsff@pacbell.net>
Description: Evangelions of the Dark Kingdom versus
Sailor Senshi in Angels.
Comments: I wouldn't say Pluto is tanned, exactly. That
skin colour doesn't come from exposure to sunlight, after
all.
"I too, am ready." Teenaged Sailor Neptune responded. She wore
sandals in place of boots, and her color was aquamarine, matching the
"I am ready as well," Sailor Neptune responded.
("teenaged" is redundant when you already described Uranus
as the taller of the two teenagers.)
Subject:
[FFML] [fanfic][ranma][draft] another chance
Date:
Wed, 26 Jan 2000 02:11:35 -0600
From:
Bryan Croft <bryandc@yahoo.com>
Description: Ranma decides to confess his love to Akane.
Comments: Lacklustre characterisation and weak plot.
Although set after volume 38, it ignores the fact that
Ryoga had given up on Akane by that point so the author
can use Akari as a mouthpiece to scold him.
Subject:
[FFML] [Ranma/SM fusion] [Fanfic] Streams of Time Chapter One
Date:
Wed, 26 Jan 2000 00:37:10 -0700
From:
"andrew norris" <atn6581@silver.sdsmt.edu>
Description: Ranma becomes Sailor Pluto courtesy of
curse.
Comments: Ranma alternate realities are a dime a dozen.
That being the case it really is a good idea to only write
the things that are somehow different. For example in
this one, since different people are at the door, I suggest
you start with Nabiki and Soun going to answer to the
door, and leave everything before that out.
I don't think the telepathy is really necessary
for a Junior Pluto. Time powers are enough, and it's not
as if anyone brighter than average can't read Akane.
Poker-face she has not.
Also, Pluto's dialogue is over-done, going past mature into
pompous. Generally speaking, she's talking at excessive
length.
Subject:
[FFML] [Fanfic][xover][r.5/BTVS][Draft-C+C Requested]Akane The
Vampire
Slayer Part Four
Date:
Tue, 25 Jan 2000 09:12:52 -0500
From:
"DaveCatt" <catthouse@lweb.net>
Description: Ukyo bunks with Angel, the late Happosai
possesses Xander, Kasumi comes back as a vampire with
soul... You know. The usual.
Comments: Those guys who looked at her spatula must be
blind. It's razor-sharp for crying out loud! I don't
think we need another group of superheros in this mix, so
the pair at the airport are probably superfluous. Avoid
overcrowding.
Subject:
[FFML] [impro] mtcff ULTRA #34 : The Court of Miracles
Date:
Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:28:25 -0800 (PST)
From:
twoflowr@maison-otaku.net (Twoflower)
Description: Pro Wrestling with anime characters.
Comments: I don't think bells count as furniture.
More like knick-knacks, really. Nice to see Asuka get a
win. Really, expecting her to win against the quasi-supreme
being of the universe is a bit unreasonable on Gendo's
part.
Subject:
[FFML] [Spamfic?][R1/2] Theatric Battleground
Date:
Wed, 26 Jan 2000 11:18:29 -0600
From:
"Wanderer D" <wandererd@yahoo.com>
Description: Nabiki casts Ranma in "Cats" and stacks
the audience with anime characters.
Comments: More confused than anything else.
Subject:
[FFML] [Spamfic][Lemon][Minor Eva spoilers] Re: Re:
[EVA/Lovecraft]
Children of an Elder God #13: The Fourth Child
Date:
Tue, 25 Jan 2000 19:14:48 -0800
From:
Adrian Tymes <wingcat@pacbell.net>
Description: Rei must use her unequalled comprehension
of the human condition to cheer up Asuka.
Comments: That's cute. we shall all have fun eating
ice cream. wai.
Subject:
[FFML] [xovr] [Ranma] [SM] Progeny Chapter 7
Date:
Mon, 24 Jan 2000 23:32:03 -0600
From:
"Jeffrey Vasquez" <samashta@hotmail.com>
Description: Flashbacks all over the place.
Comments: I found the discontinuous narrative
to be a strain to read.
Subject:
[FFML] [Alita][Teaser]King of the Game
Date:
Mon, 24 Jan 2000 22:49:37 -0500
From:
Miashara <s2mlmill@titan.vcu.edu>
Description: A slice of Jashugan's life.
Comments: Nicely described scene.
Subject:
[FFML] [Fanfic][Ranma][Lemon] Cures and Solutions part 5
Date:
Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:02:53 +1300
From:
David Farr <djfarr@ihug.co.nz>
Description: Meddling plote devices have altered the fiancees
personalities so that they can now cooperate and share.
Comments: Ukyo wore a dress to school once in the manga.
Nobody recognised her except Kuno, I believe.
Ranma looked down at where she lay curled against his chest. "I
never really saw you as a woman till today."
Ukyo closed her eyes and nodded. "That's okay Ranma, I wasn't
really a woman until today."
Lovely exchange. Contrived premise.