Subject: PPC Badfic Contest - Closing Ceremonies
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Posted on: 2012-10-08 19:18:00 UTC

So, since it's been a fair while since anyone posted anything down there, and since my internet to-do-list looks like this at the moment... time for the PPC Badfic Contest 2012 Closing Ceremonies!

I would, first and foremost, like to say a big thanks to two people:

-My wife Kaitlyn, for pointing out that I can actually just start a new website rather than trying to work old Fanfic Land into something easy-to-maintain. That bit of advice led directly to fanficWorld and XML-Javascript-powered goodness. Thanks, love.

-Phobos, for suggesting that now might be a good time to run the belated Badfic Contest 2012 (and for putting up with my somewhat whingy emails on the subject). It was a good suggestion - as the game showed!

The fact that these two suggestions came within 48 hours of each other, forcing me to put together ffW in under a week, is a demonstration of just what makes the PPC special.

Now, with that over...

I was JayBird, as ever, as well as the fanficWorld Admin; I'm afraid I put rather more work into the latter than the former, which is why you didn't see too much of me.

My favourite moments, in no particular order...

-Finally finishing Jaycacia 4! Jaycacia has been dogging my steps since her creation (spawning? Ascent from the pit?) way back in... 2005, I think, although it's possible it was even '04. Sweat, Blood and Tears has been hanging over my head for about half that time, and it's a relief to get her dead and not-at-all-buried at last. Not that she won't be back - a little thing like taking the Big Bang at a run won't keep our (?) Jaycacia down - but at least I might get a break from her next year.

-The appearence of 221bagel and a story that was actually entertaining to read (as opposed to the usual default, which is 'cringeworthily unreadable due to benig riten lIEK tihs!!1'). For a little while I was tempted to suggest that we upgrade to 'PPC Badfic and Impossiblefic Contest' and make the appearence of random AUs official, but decided against it. Far too restricting.

-Following the trail of flames left by TheGreatDestroyer, learning to hate said reviewer... and then finding myself cheering for him when he went up against DystopianUtopia. It reminds me (at least the principle) of the <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=12a1TnYNeebzroINo1Ti9vILHC-jLNJZCtMBg64Busc">Battle of Goldberg - that brief moment when for once we felt common cause with the Suethors and Fangirls of the world. Well, sort of, at least.

So thank you, one and all, for a thoroughly entertaining game. The only prize is actually more of a penalty - you know get to look back on this autumn forever and think 'I wrote some really awful fanfiction then'. And it's preserved for all posterity - hooray!

hS

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