Subject: It's a touchy subject...
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Posted on: 2009-06-25 07:17:00 UTC
But that's a good point. I would just suggest proceeding with caution, avoid making too many charges based on religion alone, and stick in a very clearly-worded author's note about how it's the fic tht offends, not the religious content.
In this case, I see enough implausible encounters and OOCness in Harry (overdefensiveness, for one) to charge even without the religious content.
It seems one of the most infamous Harry Potter fics, believed lost, has found its way back to ff.net. Behold, a Legendary Badfic (at least Legendary enough to get onto TVTropes's So Bad It's Horrible page) filled with OOCness, awful spacing, and author tracting. Look, then, upon the whacked out premise of...
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5102928/1/HarryPotterturnstothe_Lord!
If nobody takes, I will.
That's bad. Very bad.
Speaking of other truly horrible Harry Potter badfics, I think this one deserves a Legendary Badfic or at least a troll nomination. It's been reloaded too many times.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4710827/1/ImmaWiserdby_raveneagle
I think I have the other chapters from one of the earlier reloadings saved on a flash drive somewhere.
And thus, not eligible for Legendary.
I still say "Poor Eponine" (my fourth mission) should be considered, though.
It gave me a headache just to read the first chapter. I think I have a new (or maybe not so new) quote about bad parody fics and troll fics. Here goes: "Every time someone uses chatspeak in a story, an English teacher dies." (In other words, outside of a IM conversation in the fic. I don't usually even like that type of conversation in any story, but I'm letting it slide, for the sake of my own sanity.)
Badfic never dies. Yay for Chick wannabes!
...when the first review on a fic is its own author praising it to the high heavens :P
Fail. Oh, and the fic sounds a lot like a Chick Tract, but that might just be me.
And the same thing applies to headers - if I see a fic header saying that the author really thinks this is just the bees knees and that they've totally written, like, a metaphor for the ages here, I yawn and click riiiiiight over it, unless the rest of the headers suggests it might be sporkworthy.
The trouble with that fic is that we decided not to go meddling with religious matters after hS PPC'd that Bible fanfic awhile back. At the time, we felt like it wasn't worth possibly offending people about aforementioned religious matters.
On the other hand, maybe that discussion can be re-opened. For my part, as long as the thing is handled with some regard for people's sensibilities, I have no problem with it. I figure it's the same as Bad Slash: there's nothing wrong with being gay, but if the characters being slashed aren't, and it's not handled well, it's bad writing. In the same way, there's nothing wrong with religion, but if the character "turning to the Lord" has no real reason to do so--having not been noticeably anti-religious or evil to begin with, in this case--then it's out of character.
~Neshomeh
But that's a good point. I would just suggest proceeding with caution, avoid making too many charges based on religion alone, and stick in a very clearly-worded author's note about how it's the fic tht offends, not the religious content.
In this case, I see enough implausible encounters and OOCness in Harry (overdefensiveness, for one) to charge even without the religious content.