Subject: Re: [FFML][Rant] Curses
From: KLEPPE@execpc.com (Gary Kleppe)
Date: 10/1/1998, 9:37 AM
To: ffml@fanfic.com

"Wyvern Quetzal" <stragem_dare@hotmail.com> wrote:

	There is one thing that I have noticed in many fics that have disturbed 
me. I find it in dark fics, mostly, but I'm sure that this does happen 
in other genres. Why the hell do author's dunk Ryoga in the 'spring of 
drowned navigator' or equivalent there of, and say "Now Ryoga is no 
longer directionally challenged, even when he _isn't_ in his cursed 
form." As far as I know, the curses don't work that way.

I've got another question. Why the heck do people feel the need to
discuss things like this in the abstract, without reference to any
particular story?

As far as I know, there are only a handful of fics where this device is
actually used. Why not work this sort of thing into a C&C of one of
those stories? I'd bet the authors would appreciate that a lot more.
Wouldn't you?


Gary Kleppe
http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe/comics