sproking a fic that's gone

Morality-related question by PitViperOfDoom on 2009-08-21 07:29:00 UTC Reply

Remember the Redwall badfic I reported not too long ago? Well, the author realized how bad it was and took it down. Would I make a bad sport of myself if I did a mission for it anyway?

Why not ask the author? by Vixenmage on 2009-08-21 23:21:00 UTC Reply

I figure if they're taking it down because they realized how awful it was, it might amuse them to see it immortalized and lambasted. Or it might be horribly embarrassing. Either way, it makes the most sense to just ask.

I have to disagree there. by Sedri on 2009-08-22 00:37:00 UTC Reply

If I realised my story was horrible and took it down for shame, I wouldn't take seeing it parodied very well. Maybe a few years later, with enough distance to laugh, but at this stage I'd just be hurt - even to be asked.
Seconded. by Neshomeh on 2009-08-21 23:51:00 UTC Reply

Though I've never minded about PPCing a deleted fic, myself, asking is probably the most polite thing to do.

~Neshomeh

Re: Morality-related question by Pads on 2009-08-21 15:06:00 UTC Reply

If it's been deleted, it presumably can't have any effect on the canon any more, so my instinct would be to leave it be.

Of course, if you'd published your mission of it and then it had been taken down, you could pat yourself on the back for a job well done, because your agents had clearly done such a good job the fic was totally removed from the multiverse.
Seconding Sedri. Nothing wrong with it, but I don't see the by kgarrett on 2009-08-21 14:59:00 UTC Reply
- point. I wouldn't say it's necessarily wrong, but in this case it might be better to leave it. Especially since there's the question of how you're gonna spork it if the fic's gone. :P Seriously though, it'd seem a bit pointless, and beyond the embarrassingly textbook nature of it there wasn't much to work with, with that Stu.

sproking a fic that's gone by IndeMaat on 2009-08-21 16:06:00 UTC Reply

I always make a copy of the fic if I intend to do a mission. That way I don't have to go back to the fic every time I need a quote.

I usually don't do missions of deleted fic. Only twice so far, and in both cases I found out the fic was deleted after I had finished the mission. Other than that, there doesn't seem to be much point to do a mission for a deleted fic.

I think it's been done before... by Sedri on 2009-08-21 12:40:00 UTC Reply

I faintly remember a mission in which the agents were endangered because the fic was being deleted - was that The Original Series? - but I think that ought to be the exception. Up to you, and no one would blame you for it, I think, but in your position, I'd leave it be.