Sure, her stories are boring, she writes everyone OOC, her character-bashing tendencies anger me, and her modus operandi is using Phantom characters to retell stories that aren't remotely related to Phantom. But I'm no better at writing Christine in character than she is and my ideas are all just as terrible, so what right have I to judge her? And I can't help envying her dedication--she wrote forty-three chapters out of what was to be a forty-five-chapter fic, and they weren't short chapters! Had she not vanished off the face of the Internet, I have no doubt that Erik, the Date Phantom and The Mask and the Slipper would have ended up being of similarly epic length. I, on the other hand, tend to lose interest after a few chapters, if I start writing at all. I almost wish she'd stuck around, if only so I could make a few sly crossover suggestions of my own and witness the results.

Oh, yeah, I'm back. Hi. *waves*

I know it's bad manners to spork people's profiles and I said I was getting out of the sporking game, but I couldn't resist taking one last shot at the Lady. >:D

The profile is here.

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In other words, I just posted Limelight.

I feel like I should be grateful to Lady Rosesong for helping me realize it was okay to put the fic out there. I am merely employing a plotline that goes all the way back to the ancient Greeks. She ripped off a romance novel. I guess this means she is to Phantom of the Opera as Cassandra Claire is to Harry Potter.

I'm still not sure this was a good idea, though.

I'm picking up where chatastic and vampire_cookies left off. The fic is here, if you're curious. The sporkings of the previous chapters are here: Chapter One, Chapter Two, Chapter Three, Chapter Four, Chapter Five, Chapter Six, and Chapter Seven.

This will not be a formal sporking, as the chapter is too long and too dull and I'm not nearly funny enough to comment line-by-line on the whole thing. Instead, I will be reading the chapter and complaining about it as I go.

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