Subject: [FFML] Re: [Fanfic][Ranma/SM] Relatively Absent: Chapter 9
From: "The Eternal Lost Lurker" <lurkerdrome@sbcglobal.net>
Date: 5/27/2004, 5:54 AM
To: "David Johnston" <davidwj@telusplanet.net>, "'Fan Fiction ML'" <ffml@anifics.com>, "Mark Shurtleff" <gaijin@sfcmd.com>



At 11:34 PM 5/26/2004, David Johnston wrote:
[snip a whole truck's worth of crap & drivel]


*cough*

Mark?

Speaking as one of the bigger fans of your story here...

You're being an ass.

David has a very valid point--a LOT of what's going on DOES read like
blatant hatefic. You can sit there and call the comments of those pointing
it out "crap" and "drivel" all you want, but all that does is make you look
more defensive--and if they're totally off-base by saying something like
that, then what do you have to be defensive about in the first place? Just
shrug it off. Publically flailing your arms against this kind of C&C is
accomplishing nothing except making you look shifty.

The most effective way to negate this kind of criticism is to prove the
critics wrong through the writing. Sitting around calling their criticism
crap and drivel or decrying the devotion of your readers to research (and
quite frankly, that comment offended the HELL out of me, but I held my
tongue) is accomplishing nothing, and is actually more damaging to YOU than
it is to THEM.


David, if all you can see is that the portrayal of Ranma in Relatively
Absent is as a "helpless and pitiful victim", and that all of the King's
horses and all of the King's men are rallying behind the victim to Smite
Evil, then do us all a favor and stop reading it. You are SO far from
understanding *ANYTHING* it's comical.


And you're so far from offering any proof to the contrary it's comical.
Sure, some of us get where you're going with this, but that doesn't mean
everyone will see it that way, and if you took a moment to step outside
yourself and look at things from the perspective of the average reader,
you'd probably understand where some of this criticism is coming from.

You have to admit, having the cops suddenly swoop in and rape Akane and
Nabiki while giving Ukyou a small fortune seems a BIT amiss.


Not your cup of tea? Get a different cup.


Yeah, you pretty much just pissed in that one.

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