For every fanauthor who has ever gone through a mid-life crisis...

TWENTY-ONE REASONS YOU PROBABLY SHOULD STOP WRITING FANFICTION

1. Your average AIM buddy is ten years younger than you are
2. You no longer tell your AIM buddies your age
3. You chose a blanket over Starfox Adventures for Christmas
4. You can drink in bars (legally)
5. You have ever voted in a Government election
6. You have a degree
7. You prefer listening to Radio Two because they play your favourite songs
8. You wear sensible slippers
9. You saw Star Wars the first time around
10. You sneer at Mary-Sues
11. You sneer at grammar errors
12. You sneer at fanauthors with numbers in their pen names
13. You sneer at anyone whose FFN ID is more than five digits long
14. You have ever typed any phrase beginning "I remember back in [year] when..."
15. You get annoyed about FFN because of "all these kids writing nowadays"
16. You are tempted to write tutorials on how to write good fanfiction
17. You write Author's Notes
18. You have ever researched anything for a fanfiction
19. You have ever quoted from anything literary in a fanfiction
20. You have ever used a thesaurus
21. You are older than the number of items in this list.