Might be a good idea.

Anyone want to hold our own Golden Bubotuber Awards? by Laburnum on 2010-03-29 13:26:00 UTC Reply

Potter Sue of the Day regularly holds the Golden Bubotuber Awards, picking out the worst of the worst of the fanfics they find. The awards have such categories as "Worst Title", "Most Implausible Premise", "Worst Prose", "Silliest Name", "Most OOC Canon Character", and "Most Quotable Line". Everyone nominates their favourites, and then everyone votes for the winner in each category. I thought we could do something like that, except we have a much broader range of fics to choose from :) Any fic can be nominated for as many categories as you think it can fit in.

The full list of categories and rules is here: http://pottersues.livejournal.com/637226.html

Now taking nominations! by Laburnum on 2010-03-31 21:10:00 UTC Reply

Post away.
Re: Anyone want to hold our own Golden Bubotuber Awards? by Anonymous on 2010-03-31 05:48:00 UTC Reply

nice find, let;s see if we can have a different award for each fandom (i.e. golden bidoof for pokemon)

I was thinking of just general badfic awards for now ... by Laburnum on 2010-03-31 15:05:00 UTC Reply

Too many fandoms and it gets too complicated.

I'm definitely nominating the kittensquick fic for Most OOC, Most Implausible Premise, and WTF.

Re: I was thinking of just general badfic awards for now ... by orangedream13 on 2010-04-01 13:02:00 UTC Reply

i nominate the same fic for worst biology.

Re: Anyone want to hold our own Golden Bubotuber Awards? by Wide Eyed Idealist on 2010-03-29 20:04:00 UTC Reply

Perhaps we should ban the Legendary Badfic from consideration, on the grounds that they would sweep everything and make it boring?

Dunno. by Laburnum on 2010-03-29 20:20:00 UTC Reply

Maybe vote on Legendary and Non-Legendary examples for each one, if that wouldn't get too unwieldy ...

Ooh, could be fun. by Neshomeh on 2010-03-29 19:22:00 UTC Reply

Would it be selections from things that we've killed, then? TOO broad a selection might make it difficult.

~Neshomeh

Might be a good idea. by Laburnum on 2010-03-29 20:25:00 UTC Reply

Reminds me, I've figured out a workaround for the fic I wanted to spork but didn't fit with my Bad Slashers - L&F can be trying out for a transfer to the Floaters, and they can do it. Simples ^_^ Though now I'm not entirely sure if it counts as sporkable - the characters are comparatively IC, but the dialogue is so appallingly inappropriate I was creasing up with laughter through the whole thing. (This is possible even when the characters are IC. One of them is a ditz who overuses prescription medication and rambles when he talks, so babbling dialogue when he's frightened is perfectly IC. However, the RANDOM OVEREMPHASIS! WITH UNNECCESARY EXCLAMATION POINTS! rendered the whole thing laughable even though it was supposed to be dramatic.)