Subject: [FFML] Re: [ranma] Ranma Has Fun [lemon]
From: ClassicDrogn
Date: 1/24/2004, 10:45 PM
To: "PsyckoSama \(Sam Phoenix\)" <syp104@email.psu.edu>, "Cute Kitsune Kaydee" <fox1@colla.com>
CC: <ffml@anifics.com>


Okay, so, even as a 'parody of bad lemons' CKK's offering was eminently 
forgettable. I can't even claim to be a fan of ... er ... I'm not actually 
sure if Kaydee is a he or a she ... but that's no reason to get personal 
about it. After all, everyone starts out writing badly, and while most who 
keep at it get better, it takes longer for some than others.

On the actual fic itself... I can see how it was intended to be a parody, 
but there's not really enough oomph to carry it as such. In order to go out 
the other side of badness and into humor, you have go beyond merely over 
the top... include narration about poor voice acting, or have the 
characters go into long bullet time justifications of how acing this way is 
actually just a different way of interpreting their usual motivations, 
overwrought purple prose like a romance novel about Ryoga's hair glistening 
in the sun and making Ranma-chan feel all light-headed and weak in the 
knees, or something. A wall is knocked down to reveal Happosai and Nodoka 
at an announcer's table giving color commentary on the action. Just before 
they can come (together, of course!) a herd of rampaging wildebeests crash 
through and break them up, because *nothing* can ever be resolved in Ranma 
1/2. Kasumi, Kodachi, and Mousse crash through the roof in a tangle of 
ribbon, chains, various foodstuffs, and nothing else, too distracted to 
notice. Fireworks and earthquakes go off at the moment of orgasm and do 
massive property damage. SOMETHING to show, in the text, not the 
disclaimer, that this is a farce, not an actual pathetically bad PWP lemon.

- CD

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