Kind of an old thread, huh? A reply to a message posted here last year on
August 15th. Bet you don't get to see many of these.
I was sitting around today, and I was wondering, just whatever happened to
this story? I didn't have much of anything to go by--no date of post,
I couldn't remember who the author was, or even the story title--but I did
remember that it was a good read, and I wanted to see the rest of it. I
recieved a little over 16,300 messages posted to the FFML between April of
1999, and April of 2000, so it wasn't exactly easy to find this.
I searched and searched, looking through the subject headers of one post
at a time, remembering from when I first joined the list ... reading
through the general nonsense that was going on, the Canon Wars, the Kaoru
L. Shimitsu vs. Eternal Lost Lurker rants, Anime Hair in Real Life, John
Slim, etc. Persistance payed off though (as well as the ability to
word search) around 5500 messages in, lo and behold, there was the fic.
It's only been nine months, but it sure does seem longer than that. Even
so, I was disappointed to see that a general post was made back in
September saying that the story had been put on hiatus.
Pinoyeva00, are you still on the list? Do you even read these things
anymore?
You tackled a very large market with this story, writing a Ranma / Sailor
Moon crossover. A large amount of these types of stories have been
written, some very good, some very bad. On the other hand, even the
so-called very good ones aren't sometimes all that memorable, but this
one in particular still stuck out at me and made me 'want to read it
again.' I can't say that for many.
Being directed at the Author, I guess my question is, am I ever going to
be able to read the rest of this? It really sounded like you were going
somewhere with this story, and had a real concrete plot in mind, but then
... no more, chapter two ended as Serena and Ranma floated off into the
Dark Forest on a log. I'd like to see more of this one day, if all
possible, but honestly, I don't know that when I send this email out,
you'll even know it existed. If so, fantastic, but if not, well, it'll
just become another dead letter amongst many.
Maybe someone on the FFML will remember Shadows of the Moon and it's
Author, and even possibly, know what happened to them? It's possible,
but only time will tell, I suppose.
-TD