--- Original Message ---
From: "Cute Kitsune Kaydee The Goddess Of Sex And
Perversion And Exhibitionism" <fox1@colla.com>
To: "FFML" <ffml@anifics.com>
Subject: [FFML] [fanfic] [sm] [funny] [shortfic]
[spamfic] Why Luna Watches

 >Luna took a look at Usagi and said,"Because I'm gay

and you're beautiful

 >Usagi."

Allow me to attempt to explain, once again, a few of the finer points of
fanfiction, writing, and related issues.

1. Let's begin with posting aliases. Your posting alias is long and
unwieldy, even for an anime junkie. The whole "Goddess of Sex and Perversion
and Exhibitionism" bit should be part of your .sig file, not your posting
alias.

2. Subject headers and tags. A "spamfic" is by definition a "shortfic", and
therefore the "shortfic" tag is unnecessary. The tag "fanfic" isn't needed
either, since we've already established that this is the Fanfiction Mailing
List, and that the post in question is a spamfic. Also, the tag "funny"
should be omitted, as this is not factual information about the fanfic in
question, but rather your personal opinion of it, and doesn't help the
reader to determine whether or not to proceed in reading it. (Aside from
causing them to avoid it entirely, at any rate...)

3. Still working on subject tags -- don't mislabel a fanfic. You have this
one labelled as such:

[fanfic][sm][funny][shortfic][spamfic]

When the appropriate label would have been:

[sm][spamfic][lame]

See how much neater and less complicated that is?

4. The actual content itself...doesn't really do anything of interest. It's
just a punchline to the title, and it's not even that clever or funny of a
punchline. In fact, it's just plain bad. A story-based joke has a beginning,
a middle, and an end. Delivering the end without any setup whatsoever is
like saying "Wrong hole! Wrong hole!" without telling the whole Japanese
golfer joke. It doesn't make sense to anyone.

5. Try not to confuse "random brainfart" with "fanfiction". What you have
here is more akin to a random brainfart than a fanfic. The proper place for
a random brainfart is a blog or instant message to a friend. Please attempt
to keep this in mind in the future.

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