[FFML] Mercedes Lacky reverses stance on Fanfiction

[the DragonBard]

> From: fripon at earthlink.net
> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:46:49 -0700
> To: ffml at chez-vrolet.net
> Subject: Re: [FFML] Mercedes Lacky reverses stance on Fanfiction
> 
> "And when she was good, she was very very good, but when she was bad  
> she was horrid"
> (- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
> 
> It's hard to believe that the author of the Arrows of the Queen  
> trilogy and the Diana Tregarde novels  is also the coauthor for that  
> piece of junk, "The Wizard of Karres".  May be that falls within the  
> "almost" Druid referred to.
> 
> So what anime crossovers would work with Lackey's works?  The only  
> ones that I have read are the Arrows trilogy and some of the Valdemar  
> stories and the Diana Tregarde series.  The latter I recommend as very  
> good modern fantasy and far better than the Anita Blake series by  
> Laurel Hamilton which has devolved from decent modern fantasy to poor  
> sexual fantasy in the course of which her protagonist becomes a Mary- 
> Sue.
> 
> I don't see a good fit between the Arrows world and our favorite base  
> for crossovers, Ranma 1/2, but if someone wants to surprise me, go  
> ahead.  (Ranma finds himself in Valdemar where he is carried off by a  
> Firecat ... too silly, too silly.)  A fantasy anime would seem a  
> natural, but the only ones that I am particularly familiar with  
> involve real magic although the magic of Fushigi Yugi is much lower  
> powered than that of Slayers. But it would be funny to see the rather  
> restrained behavior of Arrows characters dealing with Linna Inverse,  
> her loud manner including table manner (she has manners?), flexible  
> ethics, and her lack of understanding of the term "overkill".
> 
> On Oct 29, 2009, at 11:36 AM, Druid wrote:
> 
> >   Something to remember about her works is that while she is a
> > fantastic story teller, she's horrible at being consistent. She has
> > quite a few discontinuity errors between series in her world,  
> > sometimes
> > even within the same book. It's become something of a running joke  
> > among
> > her fans. That being said, her Arrows of the Queen trilogy is
> > particularly good, and for whatever reason, almost anything that she's
> > co-authored is extremely good.
> >
> >
> 
>   - whimsy
> 
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