Subject: They both soud good.
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Posted on: 2012-10-09 01:32:00 UTC
I suggest using mostly supporting cast for the canon-pair-up. Put the Maria Hills, the Luna Lovegoods, the Tenzins in there--after all, we can account for most of the locations of the main characters most of the time, but who knows where they are when the protaganists are off defeating evil? Maybe they're making sure the stories stay on track.
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
You mean to say these past Badfic Games have never seen something that was more entertaining than cringetainment?
Well then. /bows
Anyway, it was fun being the really annoying bad femslash and bad het writer who turns her own Agents into blatant caricatures, and equally fun to write in, like hS did with JayBird's stuff, those Agents' reactions. Because I genuinely cannot sit down and write something terrible for long stretches of time. Eurgh.
And then it was even more fun to write the PPC Sherlock AU (OMG PUNS) even if it was in present tense which feels a bit disjointed from other missions! I'd been wanting to try a new way of writing a mission - arriving in-fic after the Canon has been demolished, figuring out the canker like a detective mystery, and then setting things right. Only problem is then it's not as assassination as it is detective-work but hey. PPC Sherlock.
(I may or may not be running amok with the idea of Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Sue Slayer elsewhere on the internet. Oops.)
Also, this was the first game in which my own Agents got written about in someone else's story and I will admit, I giggled like a loon. Because GrimChick6x9's portrayal of Eledhwen and Christianne was hysterical (and fluffy, and her comments with ~AmythystQeen~ made me gigglesnort because I really like pulling LesYay with Ellie and Chrissy... oop).
I am glad to be of service.
Anyway, it was another fun year for the PPC badfic game. I was, of course, D4rkm0k (self-proclaimed M4573r 0f d4rkn355), Ponyrella96 (lover of ponies and Katy Perry), and Dystopian_Utopia (who is a dick). I enjoyed most of what I wrote. The jury is still out on DU.
Anyway, D4rkm0k needs to finish "An Unexpected Dwarf" and Ponyrella will continue writing the adventures of Sparkly Desu and the Department of Cute and Unique Friendships. DU will also be back with "Inner Strength" (or as I call it, "Ithalond Kills the PPC Universe") next year.
TheGreatDestroyer was a worth adversary. I like that hS was cheering for TGD against DU. I guess it's true what they say, "Either die a villain or live long enough to see yourself become a hero." Pretty sure that's how it goes.
Also, I love that Nume has somehow joined the ranks of Dafydd and Suicide as fangirl bait. Lots of fun watching Nesh's reaction every time Nume got shipped.
-Phobos
To get into the mindset, I tried to imagine a twelve year old girl who likes pink, kittens, and sparkles. She had probably watched Sailor Moon, and probably only read a mission or two. Then I made her the type to write and fill in the misspellings with whatever was the first suggestion, be it right or not.
There are defiantly different types of bad fic that have been explored. The raging 'Sue with good SPaG Jaycacia, The morbid squicky mess that Dystopian Utopia was responsible for,the very VERY bad slash of Lilith Wydenbrooke the unintelligible ramblings of TEH PSOICIC WALE (or however it may have been spelled), and the most common misspelled 'Sue which made up the rest of the fics. It was also interesting to see PPC goodfic, something that I would hope to explore further. Perhaps some crossovers?
Obviously, I was FyreStarBlossom. This was one of the more fun ones, though I also wish I'd thought to do more kinds of bad than blatant mispellings (though, that was more me not checking the way I spell things, since I type quick and make a couple errors most of the time.) I wonder, can I edit my two badfics up on the website? I might want to continue those, and see just how terrible I can make them. And how satisfying their deaths can be.
Even though I would have wished for more shades of bad than just I SPEL RLY RLY BED!
I was Ameyumi-sama and Penguin King, by the way. And I have to say, I find Ameyumi-sama's writing "style" hilarious.
Also, the last (fifth) chapter of The Marquise's Secret still doesn't have line breaks. :(
As bad as my fanbrat fics used to be, I don't recall ever claiming to know any authors/artists in them. And I could actually spell rather decently.
xXlongxhairxshinyxthingsXx was like fanbrat, thirteen-year-old me on steroids, hence only two chapters. But it was fun to use her as a way to tease everyone in my hometown who still remains unable to spell or pronounce my name correctly. All in good fun - and thankfully I have yet to be called 'Carilinia'!
Being relatively new here, this was the first Badfic Game I was present for. I was teh-psychic-whale, and I really wish I could have written more than I did. Then again, when you're writing a story about a psychic whale that sets universes on fire and has sex with ghosts, there's really not a whole lot to build on. That description is all you need.
But anyway, yeah, great ride. And who knows, maybe next time I'll continue the adventures of TEH PSICOCH WHAAL... or however you feel like spelling it.
That was very, very fun, flaming and all.
I think we should really do an AU writing challenge sometimes.
A while ago, the Steampunk!PPC of... who was it? I already don't remember anymore... anyways, that was a good concept, and I particularly liked Firemagic's Magical Girl PPC idea too.
Or maybe a "Put a canon character together with a seasoned PPC Agent, and send them after a badfic in another canon." challenge.
Could be incredibily funny, or also can be a way to explore a character's psycology when out of his/her normal context.
Steampunk PPC sounds like a fantastic idea and if you all don't stop me I will draw steampunk Agents now so STOP ME FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.
And I really want to see that magical girl PPC thing, and a Hogwarts PPC thing (a tie in, perhaps, to the idea later on that side characters in the canon could be assigned to Agents to keep badfic from harming their canon???), and I just really really like AUs, okay?
(When they're done right, that is)
(Because when they're done right, they're excellent tools for helping characterisation by dropping the characters into different settings... yeah.)
I'm going the other way and volunteering Davillo and Serenity (and, of course, Doctor Creator d'Article, the Oriental Artificer) for Steampunk Duty.
hS, bad influence
I added Constance because I can.
... Lady Constance of Greater Wessex, who served as a nurse during the Second Crimean War before encountering a certain elf...
And those are awesome. I particularly like Davillo and Constance, which may be because I'm slightly biased... or may be because their faces are just perfect.
hS
Gonna be doodling that in class today, I will.
Also I have this great mental image of what Steampunk Minis could look like hehehehe. If only we knew whether Balrogs had wings or not...
Your PPC Cluedo weapons list has led me on a merry chase. I had to bodge the punjab lassoo, deliberately chose an embarassing Dalek, and tried various iterations of 'medicine stone pot' to put numbweed in (for some reason people keep using those words in another context...). And now... I have fallen at the last hurdle.
What in all the worlds is a 'Selaria spork', and how does it differ from a common-or-garden spork?
hS
And actually it seemed to have been originally gifted as a fork, but spork seemed more in-tune to the... sporkish nature of the PPC.
It looks like bronze celery, I believe.
called Selaria, which looks like bronze celery and is the result of a fan-made spell.
Established canon fact. They learn to fly in their Abyss.
hS, who just reread that
I suggest using mostly supporting cast for the canon-pair-up. Put the Maria Hills, the Luna Lovegoods, the Tenzins in there--after all, we can account for most of the locations of the main characters most of the time, but who knows where they are when the protaganists are off defeating evil? Maybe they're making sure the stories stay on track.
...the guy who killed all the wannabe 10th Walker Sues that tried to hinder the Quest anyway.
So that sounds like something I'd totally be down for.
Also, it's an exercise in goodfic characterization which could provide useful practice for those of us who want to write fanfic with some of these canon characters.
... we should do the sort of Agents' Mailbox thing someone suggested, too - the one where we ask questions of the agents and (somehow) coordinate responses. But that would be quite hard to sort out...
The PPC, ladies and gentlefolk: full of great ideas, noooot too good on carrying them out.
hS
In some sort of format like this:
Original post announcing Mailbox
*Agent X's mailbox
>Question
>>Agent's answer
>Question
>>Agent's answer
*Agent Y's mailbox
>Question
>>Agent's answer
>Question
>>Agent's answer
etc...
Or we could do it off the Wiki by creating a subpage (like the one containing the DoI's Intel reports) and have those who ask questions make new sections in which their question is answered. It would sort of be like the Wild Mass Guessing page on TV Tropes if anyone needs a visual example.
For those who didn't realize that yet, I am the kind of person who is willing to start every project that sounds interesting - and then has to abandon most of them because it isn't humanly possible to follow all.
Aside of my writing projects (of which I have currently four in the works, three of which PPC-related) I am currently trying to split my money evenly on Mini4wd racing and Magic: The Gathering tournaments, and I just dropped my videogame-making projects (on TWO different game-making tools, RPGMaker and FPS Creator, which means I had several different game projects going on).
