[FFML] [SHnY] If I am born there.

[Brian Randall]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Henry Cobb <henry.cobb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Brian Randall <durandall at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Interesting.
>>
>> I always wondered if Koizumi could be even more condescending and less likable,
>
> Have you looked at Itsuko?

Yeah, but my pro-Yuri bias filters my perception on that one.  Though,
I do wonder at the predominance of pettanko-female-Kyon.

> I admit to having been avoiding you recently. I didn't know exactly
> how to take your response a while back and so I've been skipping what
> you've done. Are we cool now?

We just have different expectations of the Haruhi characters -- you
thought Murphid's first take on Haruhi was not worthy of complaining
about in the Coin, while I ranted at length (because I am a jerk).  In
the novels, Haruhi is written right at the very edge of my ability to
still like as a character (though, Sigh _still_ bugs me; anime made me
temporarily BSOD on Haruhi-writing when that arc aired -- didn't
recover until reading madly up through novel eight), so when authors
make her even slightly less likable than canon, I tend to dismiss the
story in general (because, as mentioned before, I am a _jerk_).

Probably, I have too much empathy for Kyon.

And the problem with Later was just that I felt the greater meaning of
what I was going for utterly failed to come through.  A lot of words
with an unintelligible message....  Didn't help that the first
feedback I got was to say that the tenses I corrected from feedback on
the last draft was a bad change, since that was an extensive overhaul.

Anyway, that's all moot.  You can comment on anything you like; if I
can't handle it, I shouldn't be posting it. :)

Which is why I post way more to ff.net -- mostly stupid crap that's
not worthy of asking for feedback on.

> No point in writing the obvious fusion of The Shining with SHnY if
> nobody would enjoy it.

Yep.  I felt the same for Later.  :\

> -HJC

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