Two Cracky Merlin and Doctor Who Fics Written for Badfic!Challenge at BBCLand

[sherrilina]

So once again my usual disinclination to write fic was broken by a challenge comm challenge, this time a "bad!fic" challenge at bbcland that provided several "bad fic" prompts to include (Mary Sues, random unpopular character deaths, etc) for a certain amount of points each.  I took the opportunity to write a satiric Merlin fic (given the direction of the

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[crayford]

Is Gwen really considered less popular then Gaius?

[sherrilina]

Hmm, IDK, I was thinking in terms of the main four (or in theory what the main 4 characters are, OT4 and all that), but at least at the beginning I think Gauis was very popular, though maybe less so now (since he's become more and more questionable in his behavior). But traditionally she has been at least a less popular, more overlooked character (which is what I said in the note, not least popular character period). And for instance on the challenge comm there used to be a Team Gwen, but it had to be dropped because there wasn't enough active participation on it, and not enough people wanted to join that team.

[crayford]

Huh. Maybe it is because I hang round the Comms where Gwen spawns 100/1000's of comments regularly in a post that I find it surprising that she is seen as unpopular.

Funny how isolated I/You/We can be when you end up only hanging round certain corners of fandoms.

I should get out more. haha

[crayford]

P.S

Fun fic!

[sherrilina]

Lol, thanks! :D