Subject: Re: Depends. Generally, the defining trait of a Legendary Badfic
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Posted on: 2011-07-31 12:45:00 UTC
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.
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?
Are you kidding?! Cupcakes is amazing!
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).
Why does everyone think it's a badfic? I liked Cupcakes. I thought it was really well-written and creepy.
... 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.)
So I guess the question is, is it worth sporking?
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 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.
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.
Now that I'm done with that, Cupcakes has to be legendary. It's just so... well-written.