Stefan Gagne <twoflowr@pixelscapes.com> wrote:
The beatings I've taken from canon twonks have are part of the reason
I'm doing an original fic now, and the key reason I don't roleplay on
MU* as existing characters anymore. It's not worth dealing with the
turkeys who refuse to think outside their own personal box. It's also
the reason I recommend to Ultra authors that they try to have their work
make sense inside ULTRA lore first, and any random manga / game / anime
/ radio play / whatever background second.
Essentially: There are far more important things to worry about in
writing than whether the Tendo household has a couch or not. I actually
had someone berate me for hours over that.
Stefan, I respect your position, but you seem to be assuming that "one
size fits all." Some of us *do* want to hear comments on whether our
fics fit the canon or not. The way I see it, I'm writing *fan*fiction,
not just fiction. and I want to keep my story world as close as possible
to the creator's *except* where there's a good reason not to. If that
means getting rid of a couch (or adding a line in the fic to indicate
that the couch is a recent acquisition), that's fine with me; and
personally, if someone was willing to talk to me about one of my fics
for hours, I think I'd be quite flattered. :)
Now, if you don't feel this way, that's absolutely fine. But if you're
saying that any comments of this sort should disappear, then I have to
disagree with you. I don't see any reason why you can't either ignore
such a response when you get it, or prevent them with an author's note
in your fic saying that you're not interested in this kind of feedback.
Gary Kleppe
http://www.akane.org/gary/comics.html