>o/~ Just repeat to yourself, 'It's just a fic, I should really just relax...' o/~

Every time I apply standard techniques of literary criticism to fanfic, somebody says this. (Bad meme! Bad Best Brains [1] for making bad meme! [2]) Why? What Power exempted fanfic from being judged by the same standards as every other piece of people-plot-story? Ie, those stories with original characters, "no relation to persons living, dead, or previously inked on the small screen", so to speak.

[1] See also: Rhesus 2, "Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys".
[2] See also: David Brin, _Heaven's Reach_, and E-level hyperspace.

And, by Jove's beard, why don't the paragraphs generated by DCBoard *wrap* when the window resizes? Aargh! No, don't answer that on this thread...