Subject: Re: this sounds like a stupid Idea,but hey,what the heck.
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Posted on: 2014-06-13 00:15:00 UTC
I'm game. One of my shticks as a fanfiction writer is to use badfic elements to my advantage.
You can use Lady Gonawe. She has the power to kidnap people from races that will be extinct and make them live together in a peaceful paradise. Nevermind that none of them like each other.
If badfic begins to die down,or you're just bored with doing missions,I have an idea:
we put our collective knowledge of bad fan fiction together to intentionally create the worst badfic ever in order to mission it.
I know,I know,it's stupid,but you have to get bored of missions eventually.
so, does anyone want to create the ultimate parody badfic?
if so, can you tell me how it will be done.
I'm in, if you can get it organized, possibly with an outline? Maybe a separate thread for ideas on what it can include?
As I said before, you can have Lady Gonawae. She is a meddling Sue with magical powers and she is respected by almost everyone. She should be useful if you need a sorceress to contrive something. https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1863345/1/The-Hidden-Santuary
It's called parody. It's done before, though not in the collaborative form you propose.
Sounds pretty fun. Every time I try to write something bad on purpose, though, I end up forcing it to spork itself.
Example: Martin soon made it to the top of the wall and leaned into the wind as he walked along it for a short ways. Then, a gust of wind caught the rose in his paws and blew it out of his hands and ripped it to shreds all for the sake of useless symbolism. Following the trend of useless symbolism, Martin wondered vaguely for a few seconds whether it was rain or tears running down his face.
Anyway, the point is, I'm not sure I could write something honestly bad without making fun of what I'm doing while I'm actively doing it. Though I could probably provide a few WhatThe moments and other no-brainers.
Eventually I 'accidentally' called the ParodySue Mary Sue, and this happened:
He took out some lembas bread. (A/N: What's lembas bread again? Isn't it that elf food?)
"Here, I have two loaves, would that be enough?" He held out the bread.
"Oh, that would be great!" She at one foot-long-loaf in a matter of minutes. Then, she put the other one away for later. It would make a great snack, she decided, but it didn't really fill her stomach...
And this story was supposed to be me writing a 'Sue who writes another 'Sue. This part was not originally supposed to have snarkings already inside it. It... It just happened.
Until she exploded.
That's the image I got from that, I'm sorry.
It's kinda like the difference between going fishing on the high seas and shooting fish in a barrel. Creating ready-to-spork situations kinda feels... artificial, IMHO.
Also, SPaG tip: you need to put spaces after using a comma.
We have an annual event where we write PPC badfic—that is badfic about the PPC—for snorts and chortles. The next one should be coming up in the next couple months, actually. The archives are Fanfic Land (2006-2009) and... okay, apparently Fanfic World is currently frozen. Dangnabbit, Webs... We'll just have to hope hS can convince them to give it back. {= /
But, in the meantime, have fun perusing Fanfic Land.
~Neshomeh, a.k.a. brandywine_baby89
You've just got the wrong link. Here. FfW is a sub-site of FfL, because it was launched after Webs removed HTML editing for new sites.
(September is the Badfic Game, for the record)
hS
But all I get when I follow the link to PROTECTORS OF THE PLOT CONTINUUM is:
fanficWorld
Home
PPC
They are the chosen of the Multiverse. Led by the telepathic Flowers, the Agents of the Protectors of the Plot Continuum fight the forces of bad fanfiction from their sprawling HQ...
Stories
And then there are no stories?
HG
I made the decision when switching over to FfW to also switch over to Javascript for fields that need updating. That means that if your browser blocks or can't run JS, you won't see the stories.
You can still read the stories, by typing the addresses directly, like this:
http://fanficland.webs.com/FfW/Story40-1.htm
There are currently 41 stories (the first being <a href="http://fanficland.webs.com/FfW/Story1-1.htm">http://fanfic_land.webs.com/FfW/Story1-1.htm); again, the chapter links are JS controlled, but changing the second digit will tell you if there's another chapter pretty quick.
hS
Firefox pretends that Javascript is enabled, and EllipsisFlood's script to enable copy-pasting from ff.net does work, so Firefox probably doesn’t lie to me.
When I click the link PROTECTORS OF THE PLOT CONTINUUM, I get the following messages on the Browser Console (the colour coding not visible here implies that the German texts are related to javascript):
GET http://fanficland.webs.com/FfW/PPCIndex.htm [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 304ms]
GET <a href="http://fanficland.webs.com/FfW/ffw.css">http://fanficland.webs.com/FfW/ffw.css [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 302ms]
GET <a href="http://fanficland.webs.com/FfW/category.js">http://fanficland.webs.com/FfW/category.js [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 350ms]
Die Zeichenkodierung des HTML-Dokuments wurde nicht deklariert. Das Dokument wird in manchen Browser-Konfigurationen mit verstümmeltem Text dargestellt, wenn das Dokument Zeichen außerhalb des US-ASCII-Bereichs enthält. Die Zeichenkodierung der Seite muss im Dokument oder Transferprotokoll deklariert werden. PPCIndex.htm
GET <a href="http://fanficland.webs.com/.i">http://fanficland.webs.com/.i [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 307ms]
Synchrone XMLHttpRequests am Haupt-Thread sollte nicht mehr verwendet werden, weil es nachteilige Effekte für das Erlebnis der Endbenutzer hat. Für weitere Hilfe siehe http://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/ category.js:25
GET <a href="http://fanficland.webs.com/FfW/ffw.xml">http://fanfic_land.webs.com/FfW/ffw.xml [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 586ms]
nicht wohlgeformt ffw.xml:485
Trying to translate the German texts:
1) The HTML-Document’s character code has not been declared. Some browser configurations may show mutilated text if the document contains characters that are not US-ASCII. The character code must be declared in the document or in the transfer protocol. PPCIndex.htm
2) Synchronize XMLHttpRequests at the main thread should not longer be used, since it may cause detrimental effects on the end users experience. For further help, go to http://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/ category.js:25
3) not well-formed ffw.xml:485
May there be something wrong with your javascript?
HG
This page, to be precise. I know it's an old-style Freewebs link, but it works for FfL. I wonder why it doesn't work for FfW?
In any case, I got to FfL from the wiki, which doesn't seem to mention FfW, so that'll need updating.
~Neshomeh
Because if you use the Webs address, here, it links perfectly.
My guess is Freewebs-style links don't go well with internal references - the a href for that link just read "/FfW/index.htm". I've changed it now so that it'll work under any name.
There's a whoooole bunch of pages on the Wiki about my stuff which are outdated. Tell you what, I'll update the FfL/FfW/Badfic Game set in time for the next Badfic Game.
(Tonight: creating articles for the Departments of Action and Infrastructure. Admin has one, they should too!)
hS
we should still have the badfic games,but wouldn't it be cool to do this? or are you not okay with the idea of driving multiple agents insane?
For one, I sincerely doubt that badfic will ever "die down". There will always be authors out there who write some really not good things; I feel like 99% of good writers were there at some point in their life, whether they would like to admit it or not.
Secondly, in the minute chance that all badfic vanished, as a group I hope we would lay down our arms and retire as agents. There is no sense in proliferating badfic, in my opinion, even in the name of continuing PPC missions.
And if you get bored of writing missions, maybe some original fic, or fanfic of your own? Or even 'shenanigans around HQ' types of things.
As you say, as a group our knowledge of badfic is extensive; let's just use it for good, not for evil! :P
And don't worry about proposing "stupid ideas"! I think it's very similar to something that some PPCers already do, which is sporking old awful fanfic of their own. Ideas are good! Never feel bad about posting ideas.
(This is just an aside, but after commas there is generally a space before the next word begins. Just an FYI!)
As a "just for fun type of exercise" I think this is a very valuable idea! But writing an intentional badfic and then proceeding to spork it seems kind of counterintuitive.
Jaycacia Thornbyrd was somewhat similar to what I'm proposing.
I'm game. One of my shticks as a fanfiction writer is to use badfic elements to my advantage.
You can use Lady Gonawe. She has the power to kidnap people from races that will be extinct and make them live together in a peaceful paradise. Nevermind that none of them like each other.
I'm hoping one of the major boarders(hopefully someone who has seen a LOT of legendary badfic)will find this funny
P.S.:I'm not trying to create a fic that is unmissionable,but one that can still be made fun of(since that's the point of the PPC)
We should all think up the absolute worst badfic plots and canon violations and put them together in an unholy bleepfic version of Frankenstein's monster!
I SURE HOPE THE EMPEROR PROTECTS!
I'd prefer to get permission first so I can get in on the action,though