On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Kaoru L. Shimitsu wrote:
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A NOTE FOR ALL THOSE HOSERS WHO LIKE THIS FIC: All the power to you.
Obviously you haven't read much fanfiction out there. Leifker, Zen,
Lawson, Perry all put this fic to shame in the general keep-ability
of most readers.
Ohh...Remind to ask you what fics to like in the future so i can't be
a hoser then. I mean since your so knowledgable and all and obviously
understand the genre so much better than the people that like this fic.
And I really don't want to be a hoser in your eyes....
(In you case you need to be reminded that was meant to be sarcastic...)
The funny thing is you do raise some intresting points about the fic and
some issues it needs to address. But you flush all of those points down
the toilet when you insulted the people that liked this fic....
I don't much care for pandering to the popular,
and I never have. I read what I like, and if I don't like it, then
I either leave it alone (My usual reaction) or I write about what i
didn't like and found obnoxious (Which is what happens when everyone
gloats, raves, and oozes about how good a fic is, and I read it and
become disappointed).
To clear this up, let me make a point that I am not the end
all and be all of opinions in the universe. I simply have my own,
which should be accounted for by people with brains when making
decisions (I believe). We should listen to the opinions of others
and weigh them with our own opinions of things, hence why I go to
movies people tell me that SUCK, and I end up liking them.
There is nothing wrong with having a different opinion, heck I still don't
like or care for the Bitter End. Your not going to like everything out
there in the world. But at the same time you can't go around insulting
people that do like other things, and that's the tone you have...
You may say your opinion is not the end all or be all of the opinions, but
the tone of this e-mail, espically the second half certainily has the
feeling that only your opinion matters.
Maybe I'm being an idealist, but I think the C&C you had could of been
done in just an effective way without the insults and just a simple
statement saying you don't care for the fic as it stands. I could be
wrong, but it's worked for other people and since it doesn't involve
flames it works well for everyone. Maybe you should look into it...
Ja ne!!
Richard Beaubien
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