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[40cakes]

While chatting with Lady Shadowcat, she mentioned a policy she applies to reviewing - "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all."

I was browsing FFN, and realized if I take her advice, I'm only reviewing fics for my friends and Yma. It's safe to say I'm on speaking terms with almost every good author in the fandom, right? (Or as we say at cons, "I wonder if anything good was posted to ffn this weekend. Dur, of course not! WE'RE ALL HERE!")

"A bit of background may be required. This is set in my Happyverse – a few of the events from the show did take place, but everyone is alive, everyone is much less filled with angst, vengeance, and general mental problems, and Vash and Legato are on – gasp – speaking terms! Or at least drinking terms. Crazy."

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>_<

The mind, it boggles.

>^..^

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[arafel.livejournal.com]

This gets into the age-old fanfiction argument - as in, "why do you bother writing fanfiction at all if you're not going to follow canon? Why don't you just write original fic?" Sadly, there seem to be two camps on this one, the "follow canon" horde and the "everything can change except the names" horde, and ne'er the twain shall meet.

It's kind of a shame, because the author doesn't write all that poorly. It would be easier to write off otherwise.