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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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[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.