Subject: Question on certain AU's, certain fandoms, and sporkability.
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Posted on: 2012-06-02 10:58:00 UTC
So. It's “Protectors of the Plot Continuum”. Meaning we stop the plot continuum from being all tangled up and distorted in badfic. Keep things true to canon. CANON. It's the ruler the PPC uses to measure things by.
But if the said badfic is an AU that's not set in the canon world (i.e., a high school AU, a human AU, steampunk AU, etc.) then the fic would be sporkable given characterization charges, right?
BUT what if the said badfic comes from a fandom that has practically no canon?
Yes, those exist. I will cite the Vocaloid fandom as an example. Take off all the fanon, and what you have left is a bunch of voice-synthesizer computer programs. Sometimes with an avatar (sometimes without even a gender) and, if you're lucky, a few sentences of canon personality.
Everything else is fanon, outside of original songs (which are their own canon).
Therefore, it's perfectly acceptable for, say, Kagamine Len to be anything from a playboy to a shota to a psycho to a loyal martyr of a servant.
So. Assuming you find a fanfic from a fandom like that. It's indisputably bad. The grammar and spelling are terrible. The plot is riddled with holes. The prose is either beige or purple. The characters are flat, two-dimensional - but not Sueish.
Is it not allowed to spork something like this?