I think it was an intentional troll ...

About a certain fanfic... by Astral Void on 2011-07-31 08:21:00 UTC Reply

It's called 'Cupcakes', more info can be found here (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/Cupcakes) (link leads to TV Tropes, just warning you) and I was wondering, do you guys think it counts as a Legendary Badfic or just a really horrible badfic?

Re: About a certain fanfic... by Flyndragon on 2011-08-01 01:51:00 UTC Reply

Are you kidding?! Cupcakes is amazing!
Re: About a certain fanfic... by Worthington on 2011-08-01 00:51:00 UTC Reply

It's certainly "Legendary", but I don't think it qualifies as a badfic. It's decently written, and has very few plot-holes, and Pinkie acts surprisingly in-character (Which makes it oh so much worse).
Oh, come on! by PitViperOfDoom on 2011-07-31 21:03:00 UTC Reply

Why does everyone think it's a badfic? I liked Cupcakes. I thought it was really well-written and creepy.

I think it was an intentional troll ... by Laburnum on 2011-07-31 22:00:00 UTC Reply

... and it certainly accomplished the objective of being creepy and upsetting a lot of people. The quality of the actual story is debateable. For the record, I do actually like the grimdark stuff, but random violence is only my thing when I think the character suffering the random violence has it coming, so while Cupcakes didn't bother me, I thought it was kind of meh.

(If you want less violent and more plotty grimdark, the Pony Psychology Series is good.)

Re: I think it was an intentional troll ... by Astral Void on 2011-07-31 23:25:00 UTC Reply

So I guess the question is, is it worth sporking?

Hmmm... by Aster Corbett on 2011-07-31 14:31:00 UTC Reply

I think Cupcakes is a gore-version of the TYPE of legendary badfic as C*l*br**n. Both of them take a swan dive off of a canonical event (Cupcakes has the end of Party of One, C*l*br**n has the fact that Celebrian was attacked by orcs once) and into unimaginable disgusting depths.

I am almost 100 percent positive that Cupcakes is trollfic as C*l*br**n is.

Is it Legendary? I think so. At least in the MLP:FiM community. It's perhaps the most talked about fanfic there... similar to how My Immortal is frequently discussed. It has the fandom awareness to mark it Legendary.
Depends. Generally, the defining trait of a Legendary Badfic by Sedri on 2011-07-31 11:31:00 UTC Reply

Depends. Generally, the defining trait of a Legendary Badfic is that a huge number of people know about it - hence 'legendary'. I don't think we ever really decided whether that means legendary to people in general or legendary within that fandom. It sounds bad, though.

Re: Depends. Generally, the defining trait of a Legendary Badfic by Astral Void on 2011-07-31 12:45:00 UTC Reply

See, I always thought that the defining trait of a Legendary Badfic was that it was phenomenally awful, which is why they are so well-known. That's why I asked.

*Barfs* by High Voltage on 2011-07-31 08:45:00 UTC Reply

Now that I'm done with that, Cupcakes has to be legendary. It's just so... well-written.