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Oh, can't forget about this one. This is another one where I like it only for the OP, but in this case I seem to be in the minority in this opinion. There are plenty of people who view Evangelion as a classic.

This one is the very definition of an OP that was so good it managed to sell people on an otherwise underwhelming anime. (Seriously, .hack//sign is a series you watch for the music and you're deluding yourself if you try to say it was good in any other way. The OP and some of the tracks by Yuki...

I feel the OP that I'm going to post is going to totally date me, but meh. I've not really made a secret of the fact that I'm in the middle-aged crowd among the forum goers anyway. And besides, these ones are just too good not to post.

Welp, can't argue with that logic, so I guess I'm jumping on the @SailusGebel band wagon for this one. EDIT: (Also, please nobody vote for me. I don't want to be pulled into what is clearly very quickly becoming a shit-posting thread where all the votes are ironic and the points don't matter...

Oh, yes. That one's pretty good as a candidate. It also doesn't have the confusing issues of the other two "older than the holmes ff" candidates. It doesn't get considered cannon by historians despite not being written by Chaucer like some of the King Arthur entries, and it doesn't have the...

Fun fact. One of the oldest known cases of fanfiction were the public response to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ending the Sherlock Holmes series by supposedly killing off the title character. Dozens of people started writing their own fan-fictions of how Holmes might have survived falling off Rineback...

There's a wide variety of different types of fanfics. But, they ultimately boil down into 2 primary types. 1, copy the setting and some characters and write a new original story, or 2, make an else-worlds story in which it takes place on the same timeline except with some key events changed...

I'm just going by the definition here. Autogynophilia is categorized as a fetish, although I'd say it's a little more complicated than that and has a very non-sexual aspect to it. Some guys just have fun with the idea of viewing themselves as female in a non-sexual way I'm sure, and some women...

To evaluate this trend a little more... I think MTF gender benders are just good at capturing a large audience. A well written MTF gender bender tends to wind up having a good strong female character that can attract female audiences, while also cross-capturing male audiences with...

It's called autogynophilia. It's a fetish where guys feel the desire to envision themselves as a girl. It's different from, and a whole heck of a lot more common than transgenderism. I'm sure autoandrophilia exists too, but not in all that great of numbers. And, if the relative prevalence of...

Now you're being pedantic. What I'm saying is that if you are able to perform only a single task within a profession, if that single task happens to be at the very highest end of the skill chart then you can be considered to be performing within that profession even if you can do absolutely...

No, but being able to perform a successful coronary bypass is plenty to allow you to call yourself a surgeon, even if that's the one and only surgery you're capable of and you can't do any other form of surgery successfully. All that means is that you're just hyper-specialized in that one...

I love the direction with mummies there, but I have to disagree on one point with Liches. The magic that allows the mage to become a lich involves binding their soul to the phylactary. There are only 2 types of magic that have been portrayed as affecting the soul. Those are divine magic and...

I just realized, I forgot to include Mummies on this list. I'd place mummies between death knights and vampires in terms of general power. Mummy lore is, interestingly, a rather recent thing historically speaking. In Egyptian lore and the lore of other cultures that practiced mummification in...

Very much so. Vampires are, by far, the very worst case for any form of evolutionary tree since traditional vampire lore generally tends to fall into 2 categories on this topic, neither of which leave any room at all for evolution. Either they have a strict top-down higherarchy in which...

In most undead lore, there IS no evolution tree. In fact, it goes the other way, a line of negative succession in which each generation of undead from a given line gets weaker, and it's such a fast degredation that only the absolute highest classes of undead can create other undead. That said...

Probably the closest thing we've ever had to a "noble war" in recent enough history for us to reliably have all the facts necessary to make the judgement call on it would be the American Civil War that was propagandized in post to be about abolishing slavery. And, abolishing slavery WAS a major...

If you don't enjoy your own work, then you shouldn't be writing it in the first place. There is a saying among writers, you should write the book you want to read. If you're not enjoying reading it, then that automatically means you failed to write the kind of book you would want to read...

I give you this cat as a gift. He doesn't want to be your gift though, so you'll have to catch him first.

Also, my Key to the Void series has a view rate that is about 1 to 1 with the word count. It was regularly updating up until about a month ago, so the hiatus it's currently on (so that I can throw my efforts into Hell's Underworld) is not the reason for the count being off from this metric...