You could try another fandom

Looking for badfic by Mr. Eldritch on 2010-01-16 05:51:00 UTC Reply

Specifically, badfic in the Babylon 5 continuum, as that is the only one I'm currently a true fan of. Crossovers would be nice.

Googling and trawling through the Pit have so far turned up negative.

Er, be glad by IndeMaat on 2010-01-16 16:35:00 UTC Reply

of a fandom that has no badfic.

That's not always a good thing. by Mr. Eldritch on 2010-01-16 18:40:00 UTC Reply

Especially when you're looking for something to spork.

You could try another fandom by IndeMaat on 2010-01-17 17:57:00 UTC Reply

There's plenty of fandoms that have lots of badfic. I've already left two fandoms behind because I couldn't find any suitable badfic. So, I do know what it is like to not be able to find badfic in a chosen fandom. I just don't think it's worth complaining about, not when there's still many other fandoms out there.

Or you could write a story about how your agents are the envy of all others because they've got so little to do.
Re: That's not always a good thing. by Pads on 2010-01-16 20:22:00 UTC Reply

You could always ask Ansela if she fancies having a look for you. She's marvellously good at finding the worst of the worst on the Uber Pit for me and Trojie, so we don't have to actually set foot there ourselves. I don't know if she knows the fandom you're after, mind. (I'd ask, but she just went back upstairs.)

Re: That's not always a good thing. by Ansela on 2010-01-16 20:28:00 UTC Reply

No, I don't know Babylon 5, so I'm afraid I would be no help in this case.

Re: That's not always a good thing. by Pads on 2010-01-16 20:53:00 UTC Reply

Nor I. Is it that one that used to be on the Beeb with all the silly rubber alien heads? Or was that Farscape?

Anyroad, if he's any other fandoms he knows well enough, you might be able to lend a hand. (When sober; I do not advise hitting up the uber pit when we get back from the John's.)

Silly? by Neshomeh on 2010-01-22 01:13:00 UTC Reply

I thought the prosthetics, puppetry, etc. were quite good in both shows. Farscape was done by Henson Studios, for crying out loud. *pout*

~Neshomeh, taking any opportunity to talk about Farscape (which also doesn't have much badfic worth complaining about, if any.)

oh, I expect they were by Pads on 2010-01-24 06:20:00 UTC Reply

They just weren't what I was expecting to see while eating tea with my mum aged fourteen or so. We could never quite take it seriously, whatever it was.

If you could describe one or two of them... by Neshomeh on 2010-01-28 02:32:00 UTC Reply

I could probably tell you what show it was. However, this thread will undoubtedly have fallen off the front page by then. Alas.

~Neshomeh

B5 Badfic by gattsuru on 2010-01-16 07:21:00 UTC Reply

You looking for bad slash/het, nasty Mary Sues, specifically illogical crossovers, or just something remarkably, remarkably bad?

There's a meh Highlander/B5 crossover, mostly due to confusing SPAG, but it might not be worth sporking -- I'm not familiar with the Highlander universe at all, so I dunno if they count as Marty Stus or not. Same, to a lesser extent goes for a transformers/B5 crossover.

I've only glanced over it, but Three Sides of Life has a pretty major black hole Sue in the middle. Despite that and the ugly formatting, might not be bad enough, and isn't a crossover.

Most of the crossovers long enough to justify sporking aren't really bad, even if they've got Mary Sues and OOCness like the Star Wars/B5 "Coming of the Empire".