I forgot *slaps forehead* to include in my Author's Notes (not that they aren't long enough already...) a moment of silence for Shimizu Hitomi's recently announced withdrawal from fan fiction. T.T
The RuroKen fandom just lost one of its strongest pillars. *snif*
Speaking of pillars, it's comforting to sift through the abundance of crappy-to-mediocre RK fanfic on FFnet and come across goodies that actually feature good grammar and spelling, excellent style, intelligent plots, and adept characterization. Unfortunately, some of these authors haven't updated in quite a while, but it's still a tremendous relief from all the squealing incoherent fics to come across sentient people like Cherie Dee, Trupana, Angrybee, eriesalia, ChiisaiLammy, and haku baikou, to name only an incomparable few.
Maybe I'm just not aware of too many things in RK fandom, but most FFnet writers seem to me to be in the "new generation" of RK fan fiction authors--the "old generation" (my terms) being those who used to so fervently write for mailing lists back in the late 90s, like the great KFFDISCML: Sekihara Tae, Tin Mandigma, anna-neko, and so many others. Of that bunch, so far I've only been able to identify Gemini and Linay as still active on FFnet. Anyone else?
Is it just me, or is this shift due to RK being finally released regularly in the States? Really, I'm curious.
I'm definitely sure there didn't use to be quite so many "The Kenshingumi in modern-day high school!" fics way back when... *sigh*
(To digress: Ah, these AU high school fics. Such fodder for cross fangirl-nitpicking these days.)
Oh, and before I forget for the hundredth time: I haven't been able to get into RKDreams.com for the longest time. Does their server not like me? I only ever get the darn "Cannot find server" page. I'm sad. T.T
I miss smileys too... darn FFnet... *sniffle*
