Subject: A guide to badfic
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Posted on: 2008-09-20 00:04:00 UTC
Think we need to make a guide to badfic, at least for the new PPCers? a sort of manual? Maybe we can do it in the style of things I will neer do at the PPC? List style?
1) There is a very perfect character who you do not recgonize from the Canon.
2) There is a blantant disregard for good English. (and the author is a native speaker or at least fluent enough to write a story)
3) The Canon characters are doing things they normally wouldn't do. (I mean...Caspian putting on makeup? Gimme a break!)
4) The Canon characters are saying things they normally wouldn't say. ("omfg lyke totally babe u lite mi fiah" sez kaspyun. What in the name of Aslan?!)
5) There are often references to pop culture in a world set before the personal computer was invented.
And you guys can take it on from there.
6.) It's labeled AU, but the changes to Canon are not consistent with each other.
7.) The scenario is just improbable.
8.) If only the names of the charachters are used, and nothing else in the setting(This can be forgiven if the fic's good on all other counts, you change the names, and relabel this as an original fic).
9.) It's being used to press a political agenda(this counts for both sides of the fence!).
10) Adult men and women of varying stages of maturity are suddenly all behaving like twelve-year-old girls.
11) Couples prefer to hide away and angst to a ludicrous degree over every tiny little problem in the relationship rather than simply talking to each other.
12) Two characters insist that they are in love, but they never actually A) demonstrate why they love each other, B) say anything to each other that doesn't relate to how in love they supposedly are, C) do anything together other than make out and/or screw.