Subject: This fic is squicky, believe me.
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Posted on: 2018-02-17 03:47:00 UTC
Geema showed us some excerpts, and... *shivers.*
Subject: This fic is squicky, believe me.
Author:
Posted on: 2018-02-17 03:47:00 UTC
Geema showed us some excerpts, and... *shivers.*
What should I do if a fic is bad enough to be reported, but the title is Not Safe For Work? Should I just put it up on the Unclaimed Badfic page? Put everything into a Google Doc and post the link to the doc with a warning?
There are... I'm gonna say literally millions of bad fanfics out there, and hundreds if not thousands more going up every day. It's a physical impossibility for us to do missions into them all. The PPC (organisation) can, of course, make an effort at it (though they fail miserably); for us it's completely meaningless.
We're here to have fun. If one of the myriad stories that is potential PPC fodder is inappropriate for some reason, just... don't report it. :) Remember, 'bad enough [for a mission]' doesn't actually require it to be the most brain-breakingly squicky thing you can find; TOS never delved into NSFW territory (at least not while Acacia was around), and a lot of the best missions out there are the ones into seemingly-bland stories that just have so many maddening twists away from sanity and logic that the missions come out hilarious. (Conversely, I think Clbr__n was one of my worst missions, because Dafydd and Connie basically devolved into yelling 'argh, that's so wrong!' at everything.)
hS
Just because the name of a fic is inappropriate doesn't mean the fic is squicky. Some people's every other word is an F-bomb or similar. (That's exaggeration, but still.) I have proof of this (aka my "wait, how the heck did we become friends, again?!" friends). What if there's a fic called "Mary Sue's ****in' Awesome Adventure" or something like that?
-Twistey
Geema showed us some excerpts, and... *shivers.*