Subject: Re: I think it was an intentional troll ...
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Posted on: 2011-07-31 23:25:00 UTC
So I guess the question is, is it worth sporking?
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About a certain fanfic... by
on 2011-07-31 08:21:00 UTC
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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?
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Re: About a certain fanfic... by
on 2011-08-01 01:51:00 UTC
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Are you kidding?! Cupcakes is amazing!
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Re: About a certain fanfic... by
on 2011-08-01 00:51:00 UTC
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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).
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Oh, come on! by
on 2011-07-31 21:03:00 UTC
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Why does everyone think it's a badfic? I liked Cupcakes. I thought it was really well-written and creepy.
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I think it was an intentional troll ... by
on 2011-07-31 22:00:00 UTC
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... 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.
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Re: I think it was an intentional troll ... by
on 2011-07-31 23:25:00 UTC
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So I guess the question is, is it worth sporking?
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Hmmm... by
on 2011-07-31 14:31:00 UTC
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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
on 2011-07-31 11:31:00 UTC
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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.
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Re: Depends. Generally, the defining trait of a Legendary Badfic by
on 2011-07-31 12:45:00 UTC
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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.
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*Barfs* by
on 2011-07-31 08:45:00 UTC
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Now that I'm done with that, Cupcakes has to be legendary. It's just so... well-written.