Scylla and Charybdis

[zerohour]

I was watching Get Backers recently, and saw the Arms of the Venus episode. Clayman's comments about it being granted eternal beauty from the loss of its arms struck a chord with me.

So, would you prefer a fanfic to be finished, but see its quality suffer, or would you rather have it remain at its peak, and never see the next/final chapter?

 

[nuclear death frog]

Definitely the second. Wishful thinking about "what might have been" is much less unpleasant than regret over "what is".

 

[Mechatrill]

That'll depend on how much degradation.

 

[daniel_gudman]

And yet the reality is terrible fanfictions that are never finished...

Actually, I would think good stuff tends to reach some kind of conclusion more often than bad stuff, so I guess this is kind of a False Choice.

...Not to knock the OP.

 

[toraneko]

False Choice, indeed. I never judge a work of fiction until such time as it has been finished; thus, the distinction of "good or not" does not enter into it.