I mean, to some degree? It does have its own animated version available on YouTube. Personally, I think it's one of my favorite trollfics, but... shrugs I might be biased, 'cause I MST'd it.
And yes, hS, you are very agreeable. ( = ]
--Ls
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I just killed it because it was daft and short and let me play with too many minis. Like, it was fun, but it's just a standard "sugar high" trollfic, isn't it?
"A Tangled Web": I agree with [checks] me, apparently. ^_^ I think TOS treats it as Legendary, so we should include it.
hS
We do have a template you can use, though it's by no means obligatory. The crucial things are a link (preferably clickable, which requires [ ]( ) around your text and link), and a summary of why it's bad. This thing certainly sounds awful!
--Ls
Are you talking about PPC characters that aren't agents? Are you talking about non-PPC writing? I'm just not sure what you mean. Also, I would give a bit more detail when starting a thread.
--Ls
Hmm. Would you say that Rainbow Factory, on its own at least, qualifies as Legendary? I'd definitely call it weird!
Yeah, the funny thing about Dark Yagami is that I unintentionally added it to the Unclaimed Badfic list when I first arrived almost two years ago, not knowing it'd already been killed, haha.
--Ls
I have a few myself but I'm pretty sure they need a lot more work.
I would like to add that my summary of Drackens is really only scratching the surface of the worldbuilding that the fic gets into. I think it definitely deserves Legendary status.
Also Rainbow Factory is a weird one because the first one is hella edgy and not very good, but I recall the sequel (Pegasus Device) actually being fairly good in the sense of exploring the ramifications of how the rest of pony society would react to said edginess. It's a weird set of fics for sure.
I'm surprised that Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami isn't already counted as a Legendary tbh, it's a pretty notorious one.
Just finding a badfic, giving us a link, and saying why it's bad is not the same as writing an actual PPC story.
That said, QuietCognition does not have Permission at this point.
-Ls
Honestly, I can't even tell what sort of fic this is. It's very bad, presumably NSFW, and involves a ridiculously OOC Gumball (yes, Gumball Watterson) piloting mechs alongside his harem; I never thought it was possible to butcher TAWOG so bad. The author often goes out of their way to note breast sizes whenever a new female character is introduced.
(Ps. Since this is my first badfic report, and I could not find a guide of how to do it on the wiki, please tell me if I did anything wrong in this post. Thanks!)
It has been about two years since we have approved of granting a fic Legendary status. While we are in no way obligated to give it to any fic, there have certainly been some fics worth looking at. The qualifications for Legendary or Bleepfic status are as follows:
The main criteria for Legendary status are as follows:
Be at least five years old.
Return a decent number of relevant Google hits from the past year, indicating that people are still talking about it.
Be famous in its own right, not because of the author/sequel/prequel/fanart/whatever.
Be acknowledged as awful by a majority of PPCers with an opinion.
A Bleepfic need only meet the last requirement.
I have gone through, and for all the Legendary nominations, checked to make sure there are at least five results for that fic. For clarity on all of these, I will be using the “past year” setting on DuckDuckGo with SafeSearch on moderate.
I believe this has been mentioned before.
Anyway, it has a Fanlore article, a wiki, and even its own Goodreads page. One glance at looking it up without quotes, and every single result from the first page in the past year is about the fic itself. It is absolutely still being talked about.
To paraphrase Umbre on its quality:
“Basically it's a creature inheritance fic where Harry finds out he's a submissive dragon-human hybrid called a Dracken when he turns 16 (yes the submissive part is important). Drackens are really rare and persecuted by wizards and as a result part of an even secreter secret society except not really because when he gets to Hogwarts he finds out he has to find a mate soon or go crazy and Dumbledore has a whole mansion built on Hogwarts’ grounds for a whole bunch of dominant Drackens to stay in under some stupid pretense. Harry has to get to know and choose between like some godforsaken hell version of the bachelor only plot happens and Harry finds out he needs multiple mates because magic bull crap so there's an obligatory harem made of buff guys who all have the exact same body type.”
So… yeah. I’m all for labeling this thing as Legendary.
As mentioned in this thread, “Tangled Web could be reasonable put as a Legendary, given its reference in TOS. Frankly, I think it deserves to be grandfathered in, hence my attempt at resurrecting this discussion.
This thing is an awful mess of hilarious typos. It’s clearly a troll, and I love how funny and flat-out ridiculous it is, on a My Immortal-level. It even has its own animated version. hS has missioned it, so there’s that. However, there are only like five results that are actually it when searching the past year, and some of the results are from my MST of it last year. Maybe some other people might think it not unique enough to deserve even a Bleepfic status. I think it deserves it, but I can see that this one is perhaps more of a long shot.
I’m honestly not sure why this isn’t listed as a Legendary already on its article on our wiki, though unfortunately its mission has been lost. It clearly should be (it has its own Wikipedia page, which is something only My Immortal and Hogwarts School of Prayer and Miracles have). I get a decent (at least 9 in the first two pages) amount of results, but it also has a significant amount of tags of AO3. Frankly, this one is a shoe-in.
Ten results in the top twenty (without quotes!) is probably enough, especially given the fairly generic title. It’s a terrible rewrite of MLP but with OP OC ponies who are also some kind of space militia, which is so much better than MLP. We’ve mentioned it before, and here’s its TV Tropes page. Yeeeah.
I think it qualifies for Legendary.
10 results in the first two pages without quotes, in the past year. It’s definitely still discussed. Ix missioned it, and it was a great mission, with its bizarre characterization, trivialization, and blatantly traced art. The TV Tropes page has a decent overview. I honestly thought this actually was a Legendary for a while. Definitely deserves its status.
Yet another fic that has been missioned before. When I search this title, without quotes, I got 9 results in the first page of results all referring to it in the past year. The fic even has its own subreddit! I think it’s Legendary, as it’s hilariously bad. Clear trollfic, with lots of amusing typos.
This is already a Bleepfic, but given the 9 or so results in the first page in the last year, I think it deserves Legendary. Thoughts?
Probably a trollfic, but oh my gosh is that awful. Someone brought it up as a Legendary a while back, and I think I agree with the general consensus that it doesn’t have enough results for Legendary. That said, I do think it counts as a Bleepfic. Thoughts?
Hoo boy. This fic reminds me of Cupcakes–in that it's a well-known awful grimdark MLP fic. Looking through the board, I can see quite a few attempts to mention this as a Bleepfic or Legendary. We already have a wiki page for it. I’m not sure as much about the results; I think some of them might be from the song the fic is named after. Anyway, this deserves at least a Bleepfic IMO.
While there definitely aren’t enough hits for this fic to count as Legendary, it is definitely a Bleepfic. In the Discord, it’s been mocked for almost three years straight, and with its OP region of nonsensical totalitarianism, I can see why. Bleepfic for sure. Also, it has a wiki, which is an absolute jumpscare.
I’ve brought this up before because oh my gosh this Stu is the most evil fictional character I’ve ever read about.
“This is a wish-fulfillment and Gary Stu-type novel, so read at your own risk. If this is not your type of story, please move along and do not complain.”
Edward Bones is like Voldemort; only more egotistical. He goes around murdering people simply because it would be convenient for him; and he goes off on insane rants about some perfect space wizard society he would create after committing “countless atrocities”. And did I mention how insanely OP this character is? Because he is. Incredibly OP.
I think Edward Hitlerhands is worth being called a Bleepfic.
Yet another insanely OP Gary Stu; this one is a fellow named Kiactu Maheem. He is also nonsensically OP, and these fics are full of awful writing and really creepy, misogynistic elements. I would call this a Bleepfic for sure, as there is very little talking about this in the past year (aside from MSTs I’ve participated in).
This one is from the Portal fandom, which I am not in. But I have heard of it before on other MST sites, and aaaaah. That is… no. The SPaG is terrible. It’s clearly a trollfic, and I think it’s funny. Check out its TV Tropes page.
Hooo boy. This fic is ancient (Agony In Pink beats it by 3 years) and it is bad. Really bad. It is a crossover between Back to the Future and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and the crossover does not fit. Frollo is insanely OOC, and there is racism aplenty. Absolutely awful, and deserving of Bleepfic status, even if it doesn’t have many hits from the last year besides my and Yuki’s MST of it.
If you have any comments on any of these, or have any other nominations to add, or anything else, please do so!
–Ls has been working on this for a while.
Edit: added continua.
Let's see...
First one, my team wins - Dafydd narrowly wins against Sergio due to his sleeveless thing being somewhat more closed, but Nikki is showing far less that Constance - she has (half) a skirt! A much more covering top! Other random bits! And Constance has basically a black strapless bikini (no, I'm not considering the utterly transparent trousers as covering anything)
Second one... yeah, yours narrowly wins here. Nikki and Dafydd are pretty much exactly equal - seashells and merfolk tail. But Constance has sleeves and there's no gap between shirt and trousers, so she wins against Sergio by a small margin I guess.
Third one is interesting. Sergio and Nikki are more dressed than Dafydd, who is shirtless, but less than Constance who is in a full uniform.
So I dare say that on average the skin ratio in these three is equal. But! I haven't shown mine as almost naked centaurs, or stark naked humans hiding behind bushes! So if we take overalll piece against piece mine average less skin shown because those two really ruin your average.
... This is a silly discussion, isn't it?
I really appreciate that you took the time to check out my writing. And I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I'm glad you liked it - I remember I went back and toned down the disguise war a bit, because the first draft got quite mean-spirited at times. If you liked it, that means I got the balance right.
hS
Though I feel like you may have averaged more skin than my equivalent three pictures... not sure, though.
I can neither confirm nor deny the occurrence of "action" in the later parts of these missions (if you can even call them "missions" when not one of them was actually completed). Well, no, I can deny something - Envinyata: Wedded Bliss, strongly implies that their "elvish wedding" took place in May 2006, immediately after Dafydd proposed. But as Dafydd says somewhere in the Black Reports, a 21st century relationship is a long way from Elvish norms, so who knows what he would have thought it acceptable to get up to?
(Heck, technically an Elvish wedding consists of "action" and an exchange of vows. If Constance views Dafydd's proposal as that exchange, that would explain her comments in "Wedded Bliss" while saying nothing at all about their prior relationship.)
You asked why I used real badfics. Partly because I don't really like using fake ones - it feels like cheating, plus I always wind up making them into obvious parodies (Dafydd came from one with a character called, like, "Marianna Suzeanna"). And partly because it was fun to dig through the FFn archives and find fics which were written early enough to use. I did the same thing for (some of) Apples and Oranges, which I really ought to get back to someday; and I have a lingering desire to write a 1992 (Lofty Skies-era) spinoff using stories from the various zine archives.
hS
There were a few reasons behind that decision:
I've decided - and I think canonised somewhere in the Black Reports - that Dafydd learnt modern English through children's entertainment. He started with Dr Seuss, and then picked up Disney. So he actually knows the canon, which he doesn't for most other things.
The Black Reports grew out of a collection of similar, shorter tickets in a broader range of canons. I think it was an early version of the Aladdin one, then Labyrinth, LotR, and... might have been a version of the Peter Pan one? When I decided to make a themed collection, I stuck with what I'd already started.
I drew the Aladdin picture before I decided to write the Black Reports, so I wanted to keep it in.
They're canons I either knew or could easily look up. Having faced difficulty with things like The Parent Trap or Skulduggery Pleasant in the past, I appreciated the ease.
It was funny. ^_^
hS
Pffft. Of course the censorship committee only removed books that were already restricted from student access without special permission. It’s almost as though Hogwarts was already being responsible with the literature, and didn’t need totalitarian oversight or something!
Oh hey, Aberforth gets an early appearance! Along with the most wholesome of all Potterverse characters, goat. Hi, goat!
Ah, the duality of man teenage brothers. Ron hears about Ginny and Michael Corner and immediately seeks out direct confrontation. But Fred and Goerge already had the problem taken care of, in a much more subtle and less violent manner. “The flu, you say?” I love it.
I’ve been seeing the “trans female Luna Lovegood” tag for a while now, so I don’t have much reaction to the reveal. Poor little year one Luna must have been so embarrassed to have her deadname read out in front of the whole school; the fact that Astoria was one of the only students to support her goes a long way towards explaining why Luna remains defensive of Astoria now. Oh, and I love that Harry seizes on the first opportunity he’s seen to try to stop Luna’s stuff from getting moved around to torment her. I hope Qiu follows up on that . . . (had similar treatment when I was in grade school, I do not recommend for a young person’s psychological health . . .)
—doctorlit, one of those pathetic bullied nerds with no inkling of how to defend against it due to growing up in a Quiet Calm Household
Oh, and: . . . hovering by the bench next to the entrance to Honydukes . . .
Slightly more seriously, I have read the thing and I liked the thing - the whole back-and-forth disguise warfare worked quite well, I think.
I think it's really cool you went to the lengths of drawing for each section. I do find it a little ironic that you choose Disney canons of all things for this, though.
-Ls
And, to be fair, I think it's quite "safe" on the smut scale - there's flirting, there's kissing, but I dare say most of it doesn't even fully qualify for making out, let alone actual smut. Still gets you to wonder "wait, did they then go on to do it like that?", but it fits with general PPC weirdness just fine.
And, well, let's get this straight: we have a lot of bad smut appear as the mission's focus in many PPC missions, it would be silly to say that some good not-so-smut shouldn't have a place in the PPC! If we have to nitpick, that's roughly on the same level I kept in some bits of The World Without Authors, which is definitely tame - you hinted at the fact that kind of action was going to happen, without showing it, and that much was more than enough to get the reader to understand they're getting more intimate and less awkward with each other.
That aside, I feel you've neatly filled in a missing link in the chain - with these snippets you really get the progression from "definitely into each other, but still awkward about it" to "definitely a coiuple", really closing in towards the dynamics we're used to see them in as a married couple! It helps that it is an insanely fun piece, too (Dafydd as a merman because Constance decided to turn the tables on him gave me a good laugh!). The only thing that left me puzzled is that you actually went all the way to find seven actual badfics when making them up on the spot would've sufficed! I assume none of them would've worked as an actual mission, though, which imakes a perfectly fine usage case then.
This piece also reminded me of a couple things. The first is that I still have to get working on that "Nikki accidentally ends up in the underwater section of HQ" interlude, and the other is that I did originally plan on not making her and Sergio retire after Blank Sprite and so I would've likely ended up doing some similar pieces myself! Probably more focused on the two of them adjusting to living as a couple more than about the flirting, but it would've surely included them trying to find spare time during a mission to... do things.
Which inspired me to do some 3D shenanigans that are shamelessly plagiarized from liberally inspired by Dafydd and Constance's outfits! Trying to keep them as worksafe as I can, on average there will be less skin showing than Huinesoron's. Also, there's just three of them as not all of those situations fit with something Sergio and Nikki's canons of specialization offer. In fact, these three are a bit of a stretch already...
1) A Whole New Timeline
"So, uhm... What's the idea here?" "Come on, don't tell me you're not enojying seeing me in a dancer outfit! It will be a good enough disguise for the SEP field to work, and maybe we can try to spare some time for some dancing later." "So that was you plan... Deal."
As TWWA has shown, Nikki isn't above teasing Sergio from time to time, so in this occasion she chose a belly dancer disguise just for his eyes. Now, it would be quite improbable for them to get an Aladdin mission, but at the same time pretty much any AU fic with a 1001 Nights theme could result in this. So, yeah, I chalk it up as "likely happened" in the "Sergio and Nikki remained at the PPC" timeline.
3) Follow That Boat
"A cutlass! My ARX-160 turned into a frigging cutlass! I hope Corolla fixes our DORKS soon, because rules or not I want to use my guns as such." "Maybe you can give it to me? I have more experience in fencing after all." "Yeah, that sounds like a plan. But why did you decide to go as a mermaid?" "I wanted to have a swim, that's why! Together with you, of course."
Making a pirate-ish outfit for Sergio was trivially easy, and I already had a mermaid getup for Nikki, since she canonically can transform into one. Though this model is the one I recently made for TWWA, after Nikki recovered her powers - her tail is no longer pale blue but green as the mermaid transformation "melded" into Lyrical Nanoha powers becoming her Rare Skill. As such, the tail's scales now take their pigmentation after her eyes', and she now sports gills while transformed (thoug this detail isn't set in stone yet). They're not in Peter Pan, of course, but likely in some kind of crossover between one of their usual anime canon and One Piece. Or perhaps a Cardcaptor Sakura pirate AU. Name any kind of AU, someone's bound to have made a CCS fic with that theme. As whether this leads to any "underater action" by the two of them... well, they did a lot of underwater diving during their honeymoon, Keiko was conceived during said honeymoon, Keiko's magic is water-themed. Corolla thinks the last one is no coincidence. Sergio and Nikki never managed to refute the allegation.
6) Hawaii Undercover
"So... We're PPC agents undercover as tourists, tailing a Suvian who fooled NCIS into thinking she's a part of their team, while said team is also undercover as beach bar staff." "Yeah, it's silly. Not really the typical Hawaii vacation, huh?" "We're sticking aroung for a proper one after this mission." "Deal."
While I never wrote any mission in those, Sergio is also "cleared" for several police drama series, NCIS being one of those. And NCIS has an Hawaii spinoff, while there is also Hawaii 5-0 set there. Goes without saying that if there's a place that a young couple from Earth will gladly get liberal with how long the mission cleanup took, that's Hawaii.
Just under a year ago I posted The Heir of Feanor, a retroactive DOGA mission which finally showed Dafydd Illian and Constance Sims officially getting together. In the Author's Note, I promised more on the development of their relationship. This is that more.
Tales from DOGA: The Black Reports spans something like 6-9 months after "The Heir of Feanor". It is an in-depth exploration of the question of what happens when you go on a string of missions with someone who is also your brand new romantic interest. Spoilers: it makes you kind of distractable.
The canons are various Disney animated shows, all appropriate to the setting (early '00s). There are also illustrations. Some of them show a fair amount of skin.
Overall I'm not sure where "The Black Reports" fall on the fluff-smut axis. There's a lot of quite intense flirting, and much kissing, but I don't think anything actually dirty happens on-screen? If you reach the first picture and are fine with it and the scene around it, you'll probably be fine with the whole thing. I don't recommend pulling it up on a work/school computer though, because... pictures. :)
I've been sitting on this story for over a year, because including the pictures made me nervous. I hope you enjoy it.
hS