Author Rants v1.1

Greetings all! Nice to see that you've decided to check out my little
rants. 
Well, screw the intro. I hate introductions. Let's just get into the
rant shall we.

DUMB RUMOURS STARTED BY FAN FICS

I just got done reading some dumb series rumours on the Sailor Senshi
Page (http://pluto.spaceports.com/~neptune/sailormoon/) and boy did 
they make me laugh. And laugh. And laugh some more.

People can come up with the most brainless things sometimes! 

But, what's pretty sad, is that a lot of these rumours come directly
from fan fics like mine. Well, let me rephrase that. They come from
fan fics period. They don't have to be like mine... sure, some of them
suck like mine does, but others are good. ^-^

Alright people, come on now. Why would you take info from a fan fiction
and call it the real thing? 

Let's stop for a minute and ask ourselves what a fan fiction really is.

Well?

It's a story written by a fan of a show/person/etc that is not 
recognized as 'official information.' In English - it's fake! Fan fics
come from the minds of their authors. No matter what fan fic you read,
it didn't happen at any time in the show.

Let's use mine for example. I do a popular thing in my fan fic - make 
up a Sailor Senshi. In this case it's Sailor Centauri. Now, all you
die-hard Sailor Moon fans (or at least the one's with their heads 
screwed on straight) will immediately recognize that Centauri isn't and
never will be a character in the Sailor Moon anime or manga. Why not?
cause I made her up, not Takeuchi Naoko.

But, for some strange reason, there will be people that go 'Hey! Sailor
Centauri's a real Sailor Senshi!' and use that info on their webpage, 
or tell a friend who has a webpage, or something along those lines.

Then they'll take all the information that I twisted around and post it
for the world to read and believe. That's how the rumours get started.
Dumb people that don't know the difference between fiction, and fiction
about fiction (heehee).

Now, let's go into the sheer stupidity of doing that. I think most 
people out there know that fan means a person who likes something a lot
and that fiction means not real. Let's put the two together. 

Fan Fiction. 

A FAN wrote a FICTIONal story about whatever it is they like. Now, what
was the definition of fiction again? Oh right, not real.

Have I sufficiently confused you yet? Gooooood.

Okay - the point is (and why didn't I just say it to start with?) that
you'd have to be incredibly dense to think that something clearly 
labeled FICTION has anything worth believing in it.

Personally, I don't even trust basic info available anywhere that I
find in fan fics. Why? Because it's too easy to make a mistake or 
change one small detail. 

Okay, now I'm sure you're sick of hearing me rant about fan fictions,
hell, I bet I'm the only one that bothered reading this, so I'll 
shut up and move on to the next rant that only I will read.

-disclaimer: what I just wrote was my oppinion. if you couldn't
understand that, please read the rant I have on stupid people. thank
you and have a nice day ^-^

-e.b.