Subject: Two more badfics (Stargate SG-1; Transformers)
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Posted on: 2012-06-25 06:14:00 UTC

-sob- I just finished reading the Bionicle fanfic currently on the Unclaimed Badfic page (A new world, capitalization theirs entirely) through sheer force of will, a lot of snarky comments, and promises of Sue-death in a Notepad document interspersed between a rudimentary charge list. I had Googled the Sue's name at one point because I hadn't seen the author's username then and found the author's ff.net profile via that Google. Three fanfics: my eventual prey, and the... things... I'm presenting now.

Thing one:
New Team Member, a Stargate SG-1 fanfic set at the beginning of season 2 according to the author.
Quoth the summary:
A young girl enters the SGC claiming to be from the species who built the Stargates.

Fifteen year old girl described as having perfect white skin. The prose is less beige than the Bionicle thing... but not by much. At all. According to the summary she's an Ancient, and I'm side-eying her already just from that and her perfect skin. Also she's in Pompeii and had moved there 'a few days ago before the volcano had erupted', quoth the fic. Has a probably-a-jumper-but-too-vague-to-be-sure. Goes to the SGC, OOCs everyone into just taking her to the Stargate instead of pointing guns at this nut. 1,324 words over two chapters and a chapter/author's-note. Author's abandoned it.

Charges, you ask? This Sophie's a Mary Sue, of course. Being described as perfect. Causing beige prose. Causing Glodforsaken abuse of the English language: to whit, dialogue by a new speaker not being put on a new line and other wanton cruelty to the common nearly everything punctuation related. Having ill-described and seemingly omniscient tech: to whit, that ship of hers, which showed her 'all the history I've missed since I was asleep' and also told her about the SGC and made her modern clothing. Going to Cheyenne Mountain and asking about the Stargate and not getting looked at horrifically suspiciously. More abuse of the English language: to whit, your/you're confusion, put into the mouth of Daniel ******* Jackson of all people er um yes where was I. Being an Ancient without good reason for being on Earth and in a body. Causing godawful sudden shifts in the story's current location in space-time without even a horizontal rule to warn us, though it is on fanfiction.net so it could be that the site ate those. Causing OOC in the form of blithe introductions to main cast members with only token suspicion from Jack O'Neill and I'm pretty sure that was only put in so he could have seen the error of his ways though, again, abandoned. Causing mental injury to an Intelligence agent: to whit, ME. Ow.


Thing Two:
AllSpark Reborn, a Transformers fanfic.
Quoth the summary:
The Decepticons kidnap Sam and Mikaela's baby until eighteen years later...

I don't know much about Transformers, but this is certainly confusing with what I do know. Why do the Decepticons care about a little sprog? What is even going on in the second chapter? Oh right, beige fog of DOOM. I have nigh-on no idea what's going on but it smells like badfic. The dialogue is at least readable due to proper conventions being followed, but the prose is bland as the other two and seriously, seriously what is even. But there's this one Transformer that the Sue is friends with or something who was pretending to be a Decepticon but then took off a disguise creator and his coloring changed and he had an Autobot logo... yeah I give up I'll just put this in the capable hands of someone who knows the fandom, it is utterly incomprehensible to me.

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