Subject: Re: [FFML] Revengefics
From: David Johnston
Date: 10/22/1997, 2:11 AM
To: "Andrew M. Petalik" <wolf@sbm.org>
CC: fanfic@fanfic.com

Andrew M. Petalik wrote:

So... the revengefics are coming back are they?

Well... I agree with Richard about the Revengefics being a lot of
wish-bringing. With the exception of the guy that commits suicide and couple
of the other REALLY twisted revenges... they aren't too bad.

Now! Do you want to have an interesting challenge? Ask a fellow writer to
do your revenge. There will certainly be no wish-bringing there. I can
imagine that more than a few of the victims might be truly afraid this time.
<EVIL GRIN>

See ya

It's true.  That would be frightening.  Are you volunteering?
What's the worst thing you ever did in a fanfic to an important
character?  Thing is, I don't think that I have done anything
to any characters that would call for a really serious 
revenge.  

In Another Letter, Kuno attempts suicide but lives happily,
and much more sanely ever after.  Nabiki might be irritated
that I married her to Kuno, but after all I did marry her to
a smarter better balanced Kuno. 

Ranma-Chan can't blame me for her situation in Bie Liao and
Daremo, since that was Benares fault. 

In You Can Never Have Too Many, the goings on are perfectly
routine Ranma hijinks.  He can hardly blame me for inflicting
life as usual on him, although he might be slightly irritated
that I let the bad guys win a fight with him so that Akane
could rush to his rescue.

Oh...wait...  Come to think of it, Akane might be more than
a little irritated at my cursing her for a week or so in
"For Every Action".  She doesn't have the greatest sense of 
humour and isn't likely to appreciate the fact that I'm doing 
it for her own good.  
But assuming her revenge was proportionate, it's nothing I 
couldn't handle.

Ah...it's good not to write darkfics...

I once considered writing a revengefic in which I get hit
with monkey-water.  But there didn't seem to be a point to it,
so I just stuck into a Mizu-Boggs review.