It's cool. I can appreciate where you're coming from, because I've 
certainly
seen enough of the phenomenon you mention myself. I just have a hot-button
about people who say "Well, I haven't seen it but I've HEARD..." yadda
yadda.

Heh!  It's rather funny what you can't help but know about various fandoms 
these days.  I'm a tremendous fan of Fullmetal Alchemist, and so much of a 
canon-nazi over it, I was determined to avoid the fandom at all costs.

In spite of my best efforts, I still know what "Elric-cest" is, to my 
eternal sorrow.  *sigh*

THAT, not the generalisation about HP fanfiction, was what really set me
off. ^^;; I'll readily agree there's piles of pure garbage out there in 
the
fandom, and most of it is the same problem that plagues Inuyasha and 
Naruto
fanfic: hyperactive teenage fangirls who are way too obsessed with Gay 
Homo
Love for their own good.

Indeed....

The same problem, alas, plagues my own pet fandom, Meitantei Conan. Of all
the Meitantei Conan fics on FF.net--and there is a surprisingly vast
majority of them--less than 20% are actually worth reading, and of THOSE,
about 85% are short one-shot drabbles/poems, or are slash, or are just
AUs/pairing fics I'm just not interested in, even though they're written
well enough and everything.

I realise that this actually makes the Conan fanfic community one of the
LEAST plagued on the Internet--ironically--but it still makes it a pain in
the ass to sift through it all and find the stuff I actually want to read.

No kidding.  I pretty much gave up on trying to find good Conan fics as soon 
as Case Closed hit the Cartoon Network.  All your pet peeves are mine as 
well, with the addition of calling the characters "Jimmy and Rachael" 
instead of Shinichi and Ran.  Gah.  The series so obviously  takes place in 
Japan....

... but I'll spare you my Cartoon Network rant, because I could go on and 
on.  ^^;

If you have any good Conan fic recommendations, I'd greatly appreciate it if 
you could share.  Maybe they might inspire me to dust off my old 
multi-chapter Conan fic and work on it.

And speaking of, you recently posted a very enjoyable Conan fic to the list. 
I suppose I should start acting on my resolve to be more active on the FFML, 
and give some C&C.

-Krista 


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