Reachig across the table and knocking over several empty bottles, our friend CHRIS DAVIES was alleged to have said:
What
I want is for the authors to take a moment for a bit of self-reflection.
In other words, it is a Martial Arts Sex Farce, just as the
Viz advertising claimed.
And while Ms. Takahashi's intentions might have been good, her execution was severly flawed. Perhaps what is most inexcusable of both Ranma 1/2 and Urusei Yatsura was the lack of a definitive ending where all the love triangles were resolved, like Maison Ikkoku.
Whenever I write about Ikari Gendou, I am always projecting a certain
amount of my troubled relationship with my own father onto the story.
Fine. But examine
*why* you want to write it. What part of your writing skills are you
exercising? What part of your personal background are you exorcising?
Ultimately, if you come to an understanding of your own motives, your
writing will improve. Self-knowledge, self-awareness, is a vital part of
personal growth.
This "rant" reminds me of the people I deal with every day as a drama major. These people who feel they have to channel their inner pain into their acting. And these people can't stand anyone who doesen't do this. People like me who do this because it's fun. Because we make money doing it (granted, I don't make money writing fanfics), because we have a good time.
If you feel you have to have some sort of deep, psychological purpose to write fanfics, then fine. Just keep your trap shut to those of us who don't.
But if you stay in that eternal circle -- "We write this because we want to
write this because we want to write this etc" -- then to be completely
blunt, you're just wanking yourself.
Oh, that's a real nice thing to say. You've been hanging around K'thardin and Taleswapper too much.
BTW, how come there haven't been any fics that fuse Ranma with the plot of Nadesico: Prince of Darkness?
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