First, we don't write missions to every single badfic in existence. That would be impossible. Typically, people only choose badfic that makes for a good mission. Maybe it makes them laugh, maybe it makes them angry, maybe it gives them an idea for a good plot point. But it should be one that inspires you to write something good in some way.

Second, and this is more a matter of opinion than Official PPC Policy (TM), but typically I only consider something to be badfic if it does whatever it's trying to do poorly. It's why we have the Department of Bad Slash, not just the Department of Slash. Even the DMS could theoretically be re-titled the Department of Bad OCs. So if something breaks canon but does it in an interesting, well-written way, it's not necessarily badfic.

Third, most of the well-written fanfics that bend canon acknowledge that that's what they're doing and label it an AU (or a re-write, or an alternate interpretation, or a what-if scenario, or so on). While that's not a magical "Get-Out-of-Criticism-Free" button, it also means that you need to accept the premise they're starting from.

And finally, Twilight isn't exactly a very well-liked continuum, which is why there aren't a lot of missions to it despite its massive popularity, and the vast majority of them are crossovers. So not a lot of people are necessarily going to be interested in doing a mission to a Twific in the first place.

If someone manages to make a good story out of the... uninmpressing book series that Twilight is, canon breaches are definitely unimportant as long as it remains a good read.

Canon breaches alone don't make a fanfiction bad, especially if said canon breaches are things like (staying with the Twilight example) giving Bella a working brain or de-glittering Edward for good.


... Is it even possible to de-glitter him? He sparkles.

Or at least, I'm not. But our sole province in terms of missions is badfic; what would be the point of trying to kill off goodfic for minor canon violations? It's not doing any harm, and if anything, it's helping to counterbalance the badfic influence everywhere. The PPC wants to protect the Plot Continuum, not shove it in a museum so nobody can touch it ever.

A few inaccuracies here and there in the service of an interesting, well-told story are completely acceptable. Since this original thread concerned Twilight, look at Luminosity by Alicorn. It's a much more intriguing look at Bella's inner workings than we got from her canonical self, who was (and let's be charitable) a total drip. It makes the canonical powers of the Volturi both more interesting and more threatening, always handy when writing villains. And lastly, what OCs are introduced are well-written and engaging with rounded, interesting characters and flaws that are actual flaws. It's a good time. But Bella is rather different in approach and sentiments to her canonical self, the Volturi are equally OOC even if their motivations are similar, and OCs generate plot holes when they pop up. So why hasn't anyone missioned it?

Because Luminosity is good. And that, in the end, is what we care about. =]

Since the PPC is not a hivemind. (Nope. Not at all. Why are you even asking? Move along. Nothing to see here.)

Fics that don't just flesh out underdeveloped characters or add background, but actively change the characters, are guilty of breaking canon and, what's more, they do it knowingly in an attempt to "fix" the canon, which is disrespectful to the creator of the original work. Yes, even if said work is universally acknowledged to be bad, it is still the vision of its author and anyway, if people think it is so awful that it need "fixing" why are they reading it and writing about it in the first place? (Humorous parodies and/or reviews being the exception.) The "fan" in "fanfic" is there for a reason.

Okay, rant over.

However, if what comes out of it actually is a good story, we do not mission it. Why should we? For every fanfic that goes against canon and ends up being good, there are a boatload of others that do the same and end up atrocious. Since the PPC has limited resources both in-universe and IRL, they can't police everything and their time is much better spent killing fics that are both canon-breaking and awful.