Fanfics and the General Census

by Crystal, AKA "Xenochick, -the Xenogears Goddess-" 

Am I the only one that gets terribly disgusted when I spend my time writing a complex, thought-out fanfic with a solid plot and story line, good character development, and a theme and thesis far more then just adequately supported, and has no one read it? First of all, let me state why they won't read it- its because one other person I don't know writes a perverted fanfic with no plot whatsoever about things I'm not even going to mention because I'm not sure if they're allowed to be discussed on the club. Why they don't read my story is because the general census of the people is that if we're both teenagers writing fanfics off anime and video games, then we're both going to have the same kind of content in our story so why bother reading both? Am I alone on this?

I must state I'm not speaking ill of you that just want to write a humorous pointless fanfic for the fun of it, but to not have my story written on a total different level of thinking and maturity be judged the same. What prompted this was when I was at school one day and my friend Kim was passing around a fanfic she wrote about the guys from Gundam Wing in a way I'm just not going to speak of to avoid controversy and offense to public readers (after all, this is a free country and many rights are protected by the constitution so when I write publicly, I chose to remain unbiased and not to into details on certain matters).

However, I spent the previous day writing through a complex Final Fantasy IX fan-fiction, at least the introduction of it. It dealt with a fictional war that I created that took place in the future by the time Zidane was, oh, twenty-seven years old? I simply asked my friend to read the fanfic because he, like everyone else, had read Kim's ludicrous mockery of Gundam Wing. And I could easily fill up a paragraph of complaints about that fanfic, I just chose not to because I don't feel comfortable so openly supporting Gundam Wing because its not something I strongly believe in.

Anyhow, before I go to irrelevant from my main port, Dewayne told me he wouldn't read my story because he had already read Kim's story. I immediately was overcome by anger and disappointment for him. He claimed he was a writer, so I felt he would understand these things. All I could do was talk about how I actually had a plot and thoroughly supported it, went into detail over the smallest aspect, and did my best job as I could on it. I tried everything to get him to read it, because for me, insulting my writing is the most terrible blow you can give me for its what I take seriously above all else (yes, this may come as a shock to others that know me, but even more so then Xenogears ::laughs)). So to have my own friend turn his back on me and support the general public census rather then what he knew about me. it made me realize just how blind the people can be. I don't intend for this to be a major eye-opener, but just something to get my point across- people need to be more open in how they see things and more willing to read other things. I only wish that people could also be more understanding, and accept that just because someone is the same age and has the same interests, they don't necessarily write the same things but have different styles and different ideas to express.