Well, it wouldn't be a very good conspiracy if I had been told about it, now would it ^^? As I'm the one being conspired against and all.

And I think most fanfic authors I know think their work suck, regardless of fandom. Except Ari, but she has the biggest ego of anyone I know and thus doesn't count ^^

That _is_ weird - I mean, I expect it from X than any guy that's read the manga likes yaoi because X is shounen-aitastic, but FMA isn't really, unless you count all those color images where Hughes is flirting fairly shamelessly with Roy ^^