Subject: It's The Most Fanficful Time Of The Year!!1
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Posted on: 2013-09-18 14:21:00 UTC

Welcome back, true believers! It's been a tough twelve months here at fanficWorld; we still haven't fully recovered from the unwarranted aggression of the Liechtensteinian oppressors, and on top of that, our cat had kittens! Of course we immediately uploaded pictures onto the internet, with suitably amusing captions in a striking font, which has been taking up a lot of our time - time we're sure you would much rather we used for FANFIC!!

Well - the time has come! Once again we are opening up our ever-popular 'Protectors of the Plot Continuum' section for the fanfics you CAN'T find anywhere else! Whatever you want to write, however you want to write it - just sign up and join the fun!

Now, we should tell you that in the past year we've had a few emails complaining about 'canon' and 'mutilation'. And we agree! So, listen up, people, there's a new rule on the site: there is to be no mutilating canons! In fact, no members of the clergy should be harmed in any way. Actually, we're not entirely clear on why this was a concern... maybe they meant cannons? So, another rule: any large-barrelled cast iron guns in your stories should remain intact!

There. Don't say we don't listen to criticism! And with all that boring stuff out of the way - let's get writing!

~ffW Admin




Or in other words... let the 2013 PPC Badfic Game commence!

The rules are simple. For the duration of this thread, you are now a badfic writer. Choose your penname, and get writing! You are allowed to write whatever you want in the PPC continuum, using anyone's characters (with the usual exception of Stormsong and Skyfire). No Permission is required - nor is permission from the characters' creators. Why would it be? You're a bad fanfic writer, they don't ask 'permission'. (And don't worry - there's a Creativity Shield stopping all this from affecting the real HQ)

But of course, just like FF.net, there aren't just writers on the site - there are reviewers, too. So take your penname and go review other people's stories. Again, you are bad fanfic writers - so you can cheer for the really bad stories, or you can flame them into the ground. (Remember, folks - this is a game. Any flames you receive are not reflective of people's actual opinions of you).

A few ground rules:

-The Badfic Game takes place entirely in this thread. You post your stories here, you reply to other people's stories here. The fanficWorld website is entirely non-interactive. I will, however, be doing my best to keep it updated - it's our archive. (If you can't see the website, that's probably because it's running a fair amount of Javascript. You can check out Fanfic Land for older archives, that should work)

-This thread is solely for the Badfic Game - so keep it in-character! That means using your badfic author screenname, rather than your real one (which means you can't be logged in) Any OOC posts should be clearly marked as such.

-Please post a user profile before you put up any stories! This doesn't apply if you already have one from last year, but if you don't - please write one. Then I can stick it up on ffW to link to your stories.

-When you post a story, please also give a summary, title, chapter title if appropriate, genre, and rating. We use the G/PG/PG-13/R/NC-17 rating system, and genre... well, you can list any. ;) Again, this helps me to put it all on the site. (It looks like the ratings aren't currently displayed anywhere on the site - but I am still archiving them!)

-And a personal request... can we go easy on the appalling spelling this year? It's not all that hard to rite a sotry taht reeds liek tihs, and is badly paragraphed, and has no capitals, etc etc. It's a lot more interesting to write a story which has decent SPG - but an absolutely terrible plot. This isn't a rule, or a ban on badly-spelled one-paragraph monstrosities - it's just a request that we focus on something more interesting. Obviously this doesn't apply to reviews and author's notes...

And... oh yes, one final rule:

-Have fun! It's a game! It's our opportunity to let all out bad writing impulses come to the fore and wreak consequence-less havoc on the PPC. So get to it!

hS... or rather, JayBird

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