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[celestineangel]

So. Yeah. Last night I got to reading those reviews from people on my fics on FF.net again, and the fics themselves. Because I'd been looking at reviews on a fic that was posted on pottersues, and started thinking about how I'd never recieved a single flame on any of my stories. I don't know if most of my real fic writing took place in a time before troll

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[impervection]

The Gundam Wing crowd nice? Seriously? It's that bad in the HP fandom? I think the worst thing I've ever gotten in response to a fanfic was "You and I obviously haven't been watching the same anime, and I'm glad I didn't see the one you did". That's my experience of the GW fandom; canon faschists who think they know better than everyone else whar a certain character is like.

[celestineangel]

:/ HP fandom can be pretty damn crazy.

Though, I will say I was never as deep in the GW fandom as you seem to be. Fanfiction was really the extent of it for me, and my biggest have always been crossovers. At the time (what one of my reviewers called "the Golden Age of crossover fanfiction), there really did seem to be a separate niche in fandom specifically for people who enjoyed crossover fics, especially Sailormoon/Gundam Wing crossover fics. It sounds kind of conceited, I guess, but I think I might have been on the verge of being one of the more popular of the authors, maybe even approaching BNF status (not that I knew what BNF meant). I regret the fact that I deleted all my fics from FF.net at one point, because Broken Wing had over 700 reviews, not a single one of them a flame

[impervection]

Since you were especially into crossover fics, I imagine that any canon-nazi simply skipped right by your fics, seeing by the warnings that it wouldn't be their cup of tea. I've never written cross overs or AUs of any kind, but the problem is that I have a way looser definition of canon than many others who like that genre. So it may appear from the warnings that they're going to get what they want, but they won't. Also, based on what you've said in the past about being quite restrictive when it comes to writing non-canon pairings and the like, I have a feeling that you don't take quite as many liberties as I do. :) To top it all off, although I was never in the GW fandom at the time when you were, everything I've heard indicated that the real canon-fascists who like to make their opinion the law of the fandom, came later.

[celestineangel]

The thing a lot of GW fans seem to forget (or never understand at all) is that GW is very loose with canon information to begin with. The creators specifically say there are things they didn't want to explain, or wanted to leave to the audience's imaginations. Thus, discussing the possible variations of what may or may not be true can be a fun fandom activity for all, but arguing that one thing is or isn't true is pointless. There will be no Word of God about it, there is no way to say one way or another because any "proof" from the source material you have can just as easily be "disproven" by someone else with some other random factoid from the source material.

I'm less restrictive now about writing non-canon pairings and things than I used to be. :) At the time I wrote Broken Wing and started Mended Wing, I really was very restrictive about what pairings I would and would not write, especially when it came to crossovers, because I didn't write crossovers for the same reason other people did (to pair up two characters from