Subject: Question about mission qualification!
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Posted on: 2023-01-30 01:46:47 UTC

So I’ve had this book lying around for a while now, and I’ve been wondering if it counts as missionable badfic. Here's a link to its Goodreads page.

It seems nearly indistinguishable from standard badfic - there’s numerous spelling errors (‘sevana’ and ‘emreld,’ for examples), there are unlabeled time skips and scene skips in multiple places, and the book gets so many canon details wrong it’s unclear if it was even researched. The only thing that makes me wonder if it’s not actually missionable is the fact that it’s published.

It clearly advertises itself as fanfic (‘an unofficial Minecraft story’) but I remember hearing that the PPC avoids sporking published works. However, from what I could gather this rule applied to books that were fanfics in spirit, like the Inheritance Cycle and that Shades book. I feel like this work is rather more blatant about the fact that it’s, well, fanfiction put to paper. Regardless, I wanted to check in with you guys and make sure that was the right interpretation, because I really don’t know. Cheers!

-OrangeFox

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