Well That Was Emotional....

So chaneystarr mentioned Tactics in an LJ post, which got me thinking 'gee, I really ought to finish that series'. So I got myself a drink, settled in, and ended up doing just that.

Um. Yeah.

I really don't know what to say right now. Other than I can't see the relationship Kantarou and Haruka as being anything other than love. Not to say I think they are/are going to get together, but that they love each other deeply.

I do think it is still my favorite series.

And someday I will finish FMA. I promise.

Now I'm off to wibble and probably go to bed.

Fanfic Evolution

So, since the subject has come up mutliple times over the past three days - in discussion on lupin_snape, in chatting with lennaofmidearth and in comments with cirakaite - I have been thinking about the evolution of my fanfic. I've been looking back over the stuff I've written that I am ashamed of now. Or I shouldn't say ashamed, but that I look back on and go 'what the hell was I thinking?'. The ones that are full of cliches, whacked out plot devices/situations, horrible OCs, you name it. I've lost a lot of my fics from pre-HP - and I am not sad about this - but every so often I start to thinking about them.

I used to write horrible Mary-Sues. I had Highlander Sues, Babylon 5 Sues (though most of my B5 fic was Zack/Lyta), and even one DS9 Sue that never made it out of a notebook. And I even have, somewhere out there, an HP Sue. Then I moved on to slash. And my first slash was the most fanon cliched stuff you can imagine. Wangsty, over-dramatic, plot-device riddled monstrosities. This was way back when I was new to online fandom, and had only been exposed to other fics of the same nature. Now, it's a lot different.

I am very glad of the people who offered me con-crit and pointed me in the direction to improving my writing. rivendellrose played a huge part in this, for never once holding back an honest critique. If something I wrote sucked, she would just plain tell me it did and why. She went over my fics with a fine toothed comb, explained everything, and essentially taught me advanced grammar.

I get so frustrated with fic authors who refuse to take concrit, or refuse to make any effort to improve. We all start out somewhere, and most of us start out writing stuff we look back on and blush. And that's fine. It's a starting point, and no author who has any sense of seriousness about their writing stays where they started.

Just some stuff that was on my mind this morning. I'm going to be in and out today, getting things done today I wasn't able to get done over the week. :D