Badfic
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Most Badfic is considered bad due to the poor skills or lack of care by the author.
Badfic is also used to define fanfiction deliberately written poorly, either in style or execution, or subject matter. In this case it is occasionally used interchangeably with Crackfic.
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[edit] Historical Definitions
The following definition dates to the Roswell fandom on June 27, 2001:
- badfic: just what it sounds like, a fic that (intentionally or unintentionally) is just plain bad [1]
The following definition dates to May 2005 in the slash, Westlife, and Lord of the Rings fandoms:
- Badfic - Story that is instentionally written to be bad. Usually those are done to amuse - or to parody frequent errors/crimes against slash. [2]
The following definition is from GAFF and dates to December 2006:
- Badfic: Poorly written fan fiction. [3]
The following definition dates to May 2008 in media fandom:
- Badfic -- refers to stories written in a deliberately horrible manner, as a special type of Parody story (one usually only done as a Challenge). Badfics tend to use every cliche in the book, ridiculous (completely out-of-character) sweeping (and often purple-prosy) descriptions and dialogue, and mainly... the most awful grammar and spelling one can stand! Such stories can be terribly funny (in the way watching a train wreck is interesting) or excrutiatingly nauseating. It takes a master to pull it off without encouraging the Pepto-Bismol stockprices, so is not recommended for beginners. May or may not require a squick warning, but I'd lean heavily toward the "may" half of that option if I were you. See also: 'Challenge' and/or 'Parody' [4]
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