Comments | lyl_devil: bad!fic Bingo!! - or, What I do with my time

lyl_devil

bad!fic Bingo!! - or, What I do with my time

Dec 30, 2007 20:20

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jinxed_wood December 31 2007, 02:35:45 UTC

Oh, this and the PDF had me cracking up, even as I noticed a few things I'm guilty of myself (in some ways, it made it even funnier!)

lyl_devil December 31 2007, 02:46:00 UTC

I have done a fair share of these myself. Especially in the days-I-will-not-talk-about.

I've even done the Mary Sue column in one form or another, much to my shame.

Glad you enjoyed it. :)

kallie_kat December 31 2007, 06:26:20 UTC

LOL! That pdf was fun. And yeah, the Willow/Spike community has a lot of those squares filled up. What can I say? I love the pairing when done right, but there's just so much of it that is done wrong.

And, as you said, just because a story has one of those cliches doesn't mean it isn't good. The skill of the writer has a lot to do with how much I can forgive in a story. Although, I have to admit, if he grammar and spelling are bad, I have a real hard time looking past that.

lyl_devil December 31 2007, 19:13:30 UTC

Actually, a lot of those squares were taken from stuff over at Twisting the Hellmouth - especially the Mary Sue and Plot Device Cliches. ::sigh::

Yeah, if the grammar and spelling are bad, I usually drop kick the story - or hit the back button.

The really funny part of this whole thing, is that if pressed, I could probably find one good and one bad story for each of those squares (well, maybe not the spelling/grammar/homophone squares).

kallie_kat December 31 2007, 20:07:42 UTC

Yeah, I bet you could. Some of those cliches are cliches because they *are* enjoyable when done correctly.