Subject: Re: Building Bridges 2/3
From: WebDragon
Date: 11/12/1996, 4:05 PM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com


MD Price also wrote
This part just seemed to go too far. Lawson did a fine job 
of exploring Ranma's mentality when confronted with what 
he had to go through and why he goes for Kentaro, but this 
seems to try to just be a mini-lemon. 

        You are focusing too much (TOO MUCH) on the last part.  I did warn
you in the story that it has semi-lemon at the end...!

It was very un-Ranma, 
and it made me extremely uncomfortable. 

That's why it is a "what-if" story....I made no apologies for Ranma turning
out the way SHE did, right?

PLUS the use of 
alcohol as a plot device to make it "OK" for Ranma to mess 
around with Kentaro was weak and in some ways offensive. I 
don't know about you, but I have been slosh drunk and I 
have NEVER lost sight of my identity or wanted to go screw 
a member of the same sex just because I was too drunk to 
know what I was doing. Alcohol lowers your inhibitions, but 

        She didn't screw around with Kentaro.  She didn't know what the both
of them were leading up to...she was just necking and petting (albeit heavy
petting), but the moment she realized what they were about to
do....poof...there it goes.

not THAT much. Maybe it is a personal thing for me, but 
this section of this story was just wrong, and it seems to 
violate all that Lawson did in his two fics. Sorry... but 
that's just what my reaction was...

        Again, you focused too much on the last part.  Let me emphasize
that.  YOU FOCUSED TOO MUCH ON THE LAST PART.

        In case you missed it, it was TWO and a HALF years after the first
date  (the beginning and middle part of my fic)....also, like I said before
in my last post, it was after exams and emotions run high - plus the
deepening relationship between Kentaro and Ranma PLUS the SPIKED alcohol.
Alcohol would be merely a lowering of inhibitions, but add in the
spiked....and presto.

otherwise, the grammar and such was fine.

        Thanks.