I don't know why you were anxious about posting this

Because I can't tell if devoting this kind of analysis to a terrible summer blockbuster is just intrinsically doomed to failure—it's not even as though I'm recommending a film that I think everyone should see, I'm picking a few curious elements out of a mess that I would generally warn people against. I never have any idea if other people want to read that sort of thing.

even if I can't picture you writing fan fiction

I can't really, either. So far I've written flash and a chantey for nineweaving, the first mostly because I wanted to see if I could (and then its 'ship wound up in the novel, which amuses me), the second because that's what happens when I read drafts and listen to a lot of sea-music at the same time, but neither of those were because I found her world in need of fixing. The latest Tales of the Talisman contains a story I wrote in Karen Anne Mitchell's future, but I'm not sure that counts as fanfiction either: I didn't use any of her characters and I had her permission. Is that the distinction between fanfiction and shared-world? I bet someone with more information than I has already addressed this question. I should find out.

But I'm also thinking now that I want to write poetry about Dorian Gray, so I may have to disavow this paragraph in a few days.

(This does not discount my particular interest in seeing you do a treatment of my characters outside of poetry. I'm just saying.)

Heh. Thank you. I will see what I can do . . . (But only if you write more things I can read!)