Welcome! by
The Trojanhorse
on 2010-03-12 02:59:00 UTC
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*hands you the celebratory plate of lembas*
However, I've got to ask, if you think fanfiction is a waste of time, and don't know any fandoms ... how are you going to tell good fanfic from bad?
Fair enough. In that case, first poke! by
Neshomeh
on 2010-03-12 01:26:00 UTC
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*pokes*
I poke because I care, you see. {= )
Put it like that, yeah, I'm not much interested in writing fanfiction myself anymore, either (except possibly to finish that one HP fic that I've sworn year after year that I would finish). But I do like parody, satire, and generally flexing the sarcasm muscles in a mostly-harmless way, and badfic is a good excuse for it. So that's why I do it.
Badfic shouldn't need a stomach. That is, it's not all squick and horror (unless you go looking for it). Most of it is just adolescent self-indulgence. We're all guilty of it at some point, it's just that some people do it in particularly cracky and lulzy ways. That's the stuff that makes for a good PPC story (which is different from MST, by the way. You don't need Permission to MST).
So. In the spirit of broadening horizons, welcome. I do hope you'll learn to forgive the Board its foibles, though. Look at it as a good reason to be thoughtful about what you write, knowing that you won't get a chance to edit it later. It's good practice. {= )
~Neshomeh
but it totally is by
DigitalSocrates
on 2010-03-12 00:44:00 UTC
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a terrible forum technology. Not gonna make me budge on that.