Subject: Urp
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Posted on: 2012-07-28 15:06:00 UTC
Some fics just need killing.
Subject: Urp
Author:
Posted on: 2012-07-28 15:06:00 UTC
Some fics just need killing.
I know this seems completely strange, but here me out. I know that text based fanfics are the standard which pretty much every agent goes through, but what about other fan mediums?
Take, for example, comics.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/HowIBecameYours?from=FanFic.HowIBecameYours
How I Became Yours is pretty much Avatar Badfic in comic form. Reading it... well, I was banging my head, and not to the metal music.
The one I know we stay away from is fanart.
I noticed this with many Sonic OC's online, too. Are we allowed to go after bad fancomics like this?
FYI, the author of How I Became Yours was banned from deviantart for stealing much of her artwork.
I do not have permission, by the way. I have been thinking about my (Very unlikely) agents, however.
Because if you could you could take some scans of the really bad pages and draw the agents on the page fixing things or poking fun at it. Just an idea, but I have seen some bad fanart out there and as someone learning how to draw I feel like that could be something that I could work on. I haven't applied for Permission yet though, so it wouldn't be anytime soon.
Some fics just need killing.
What you could do is insert links (for whole scenes) or crops of the page (for the most notable art errors) into a normal text mission. Misspellings and the like could just be copied like quotes normally are.
Personally, I think there is value to sporking it even if you do only use text. That thing is a stinking pile of frass and deserves to die a million fiery deaths. I don't have Permission yet either, and I'm sure you can handle it on your own, but if you want a collaborator, I am more than up for the job.
We have a Bad Roleplay Department, with a Division of Bad Quizzes - while still text-based, they're not exactly the same as badfic. I don't believe either of those have ever been used.
There have also been discussions about how to potentially PPC a comic, but no-one's ever come up with a good method. Do you do it in text-only form, in which case why bother? Do you paste your agents into their bad comic, in which case it's pretty plagiaristic? Or do you draw your own versions of bits of their comic, in which case how do you have the time for that? Thus far, no-one's found a decent method of PPCing them.
To take other types of bad-...
I've posted (not /too/ long ago) a probably-AU snippet set in the Wrecked Music Department, where they PPC dodgy covers, remakes and remixes of songs. That was mostly a technical exercise in how surreal a PPCing could be - and was not done as a song. So there's that.
hS