| Display title | The Bet (fan work) |
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| Page creator | Looney Toons (talk | contribs) |
| Date of page creation | 19:05, 5 April 2021 |
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| Date of latest edit | 22:48, 17 March 2024 |
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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | The Bet was a cycle of fan fics from the late 1990s, centered on the framing device of a competition between a group of gods, demons, spirits and the occasional mortal to see who can make the biggest change in one of several "standard" timelines (the Canon versions of Ranma ½, Tenchi Muyo!, and Sailor Moon among others) with the smallest initial alteration. It was started, in something of an Ur Example of what in later years would be called a "fic challenge", by Gregg "Metroanime" Sharp in 1998 on what was then called the Anime Fan Fiction Mailing List (FFML). After posting a flurry of mini-fics to the list and elsewhere, most of which simply set up a crossover premise or divergent timeline, then left it hanging with a few notes on where the plot might go, he then challenged the FFML to choose which should be continued, which should be abandoned, and which one should win the titular Bet. At the heart of all these fics was the story Neutral Ground, in which the first Bet (between Toltiir, a god of Mischief, and Takahashi, goddess of bizarre romantic subplots) kicked off the massive celestial competition. |