This has been boiling inside me for quite a while, I need to get it off my mind, dead horse or not...
The amount of crappy fanfiction out there is just huge. I'm especially pissed at the Death Note fandom... A certain view is spreading among the fangirls, namely that Light is really innocent, and only the Notebook is to blame. It controlled Light, making him commit all the crimes he had, while Light was trying to fight against its power! Yeah, riiiight... And the Notebook also makes the bearer invisible and all the Shinigami Realm is out to get Light... *rollseyes* Also if you want to write about this warm, loving, vulnerable man, of course you can, just please don't call him L! Doing so would leave the reader with the impression that you were trying to write Death Note fanfiction and failed miserably...
I mean, of course you're allowed to do whatever you want with a fictional character, he/she's not real and in some cares the original author is already dead anyway. But what's the point? A kind, romantic L. What's next? A brave, heroic Rincewind? A sane, handsome Opera Ghost? A loving, grandmothery Granny Weatherwax? A mean, selfish Frodo? Come on...

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