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[teddog]

Let it be known that I am NOT fond of Blue Bird's Illusion, the infamous Chinese Fullmetal Alchemist fangame.

LOOK AT THIS!

Here we have a used copy going for $127 at the time I'm posting this. That, for a stinking angst pile? No wonder the fandom is so messed up.

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[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

Though I've stayed as far as possible from the doujinshi market, though I have stumbled across the occasional "offical" books. Mostly the ones where you're half way in and you realize that you're paying to read poor quality fanfiction. Or in one horrifying case, two paragraphs. *twiches* Free fandom all the way.

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

I've always found the obsession over doujinshi to related the fetishizing of Japanese fandom. ::shrugs:: I avoid, unless there's scans of something REALLY insane that I want to laugh at.

The "official" fanbooks and novels? Ugh. While there are a few good ones, like the Fullmetal Alchemist manga profile book, the MST3K episode guide and, well, all of the Red Green books, those tend to be written by the creators. I will admit that I own the FMA novels, but I knew going in that those would be kinda flakey and a game of "spot the Mary Sue!"

The one case of decent paid-for-fan fiction I can think of at the moment is the Sonic comics, where the newest head writer for the book used to be a popular fan fiction author. I have no issue supporting him at the moment, but I enjoyed his work in the fandom before.