Bad fic! Argh! Argh, argh!

[foxmonkey]

How do you guys do it? I can't read bad!fic, I just can't do it. It makes me crazy; I just want to hit somebody. Jeebus, they've tried to kiss about 20 times now, and they've been interrupted every. single. time. And it's just the third friggin' chapter! Arrrrggggggghhhhh!!!!

Does he love me? He says he does, but I'm sure he doesn't mean it! I kissed him and OH GOD, he's been standing there motionless and speechless for ten minutes so now I'll run out of the room because I know he hates me! I'm going to hide for weeks lest he see my tears and be disgusted by my shameless display of emotion!

Hit me in the head with a 2x4, please. Thanks.

Comments

[kaelie.livejournal.com]

Are you kidding? That sounds like comedy gold! The drama! The suspense! The overwhelming sexual tension! If you're lucky, soon to be followed by mixed signals, complete and total lack of communication, jealousy over another band member, and the all important claiming of the object of one's interest as a material possession. All written without any sense of humour whatsoever, of course.

(sighs happily) These are some of the best things in life! If you're not going to update CL or Baby Blue, you must read more. And tell me all about it. These are the choices before you. :) Choose wisely, Fox.

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

Woman, you are a freak. ;-)

Comedy gold, my ass! Since I'm too much of a lady to give out author names and story titles here in LJ, I'll email you privately. This isn't just comedy gold. It's a veritable comedy *goldmine.*

And yeah, I'm actually writing today. *gasp!* It's true! *gasp!* Really!

[kaelie.livejournal.com]

Woman, you are a freak.

Now now. Foxes in glass houses . . .

[bitterchick.livejournal.com]

Oh I think I know what you're reading...

ahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[joielee.livejournal.com]

Oh, see, that's not what I consider bad!fic. Bad!fic is something short and so ridden with spelling and grammer mistakes that it's almost unintelligible. Something with a ridiculous plot and bad characterizations and usually with Justin crying. Something that takes two minutes to read and an hour to stop laughing. :)

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

Oh, see, that's not what I consider bad!fic. Bad!fic is something short and so ridden with spelling and grammer mistakes that it's almost unintelligible.

Bad!fic can also be longer than War and Peace and so stuffed with flowery prose that you need a machete and a chainsaw to get through it.


Something with a ridiculous plot and bad characterizations and usually with Justin crying.

Something with a ridiculous plot, bad characterization, and Justin crying. Oh, wait, you said all that. ;-)


Something that takes two minutes to read and an hour to stop laughing. :)

Something that takes hours to read and a day to get over the urge to pull your hair out...

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

Oh I think I know what you're reading...

ahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Oh sure, laugh at my pain. ;-)

[joielee.livejournal.com]

The long stuff? I consider bad fic, not bad!fic. There's a subtle difference. ;)

[pierson.livejournal.com]

>>>Does he love me? He says he does, but I'm sure he doesn't mean it! I kissed him and OH GOD, he's been standing there motionless and speechless for ten minutes so now I'll run out of the room because I know he hates me! I'm going to hide for weeks lest he see my tears and be disgusted by my shameless display of emotion!<<<


Well, damn. You just gave away the plot to my story, a 3947569847638726239874 page epic with 987 chapters in which little Juju and JC (or Jim and Blair or Lex and Clark or Jack and Daniel or Duncan and Methos or any other slash pairing) pledge Eternal!Love! like for, Forever and Ever. I'm weeping now, because my Life's Blood is in this epic, and I know No One Else can ever tell the story with the same Throbbing Intensity I can. I can Never write again!

Heh.

I love badfic. Kim [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] always teases me about it, but really, I love it. It's very addicting, no matter what the fandom, and I've read in dozens. Throw in a few "blue orbs shimmering with tears," and I'm there, baby. :-)

[frogspace.livejournal.com]

I know that one!

Stop after chapter four. It has some closure and...just pretend it's the end. ;)

[ja.livejournal.com]

How did I know the exact story you are speaking of?

*groans in pain*

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

Stop after chapter four. It has some closure and...just pretend it's the end. ;)

Which would have been excellent advice had I not already read *cough*eight*cough* chapters. ;-)

Hopefully, it's not too late to save someone else!

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

Well, damn. You just gave away the plot to my story, a 3947569847638726239874 page epic with 987 chapters

Bwahahaha! And see, the best part is that you can do a word search, change the names and eye color (and sex!), and *voila*! A story for every fandom you're in. ;-)

You *will* write again! You must! ::sob:: And now I run out of the room lest you see my tears!

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

BWAHAHAHAHA! How perfect is your icon?

How did I know the exact story you are speaking of?

And If I remember your post correctly, we stopped at the same place. Stop the madness! Think of the children! ::sob::

[bartinigirl03.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I know the bad!fic you are talking about.

[musiclver20.livejournal.com]

I must have missed this one when I was reading a bunch of bad!fic the other night. I'm in need of a good laugh, do you mind sending the link my way?

[ja.livejournal.com]

Yes. It was just too painful. Waaaaay too painful.

I am in need of a fox!fic to ease the hurt and pain inside. *winksmooch*

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

By the time I gave up, *I* was the one running out of the room in tears. Holy Lawd, that made my head hurt.

[jciseveryonesho.livejournal.com]

Ha! You started reading it, too. (If we're in fact thinking of the same story.) I'll admit it, I liked the first couple chapters because I thought, "Wow, this is kind of new and refreshing," because of the different style and introspective!Justin. But then it all started to go downhill. Part of the blah feeling was because so much was updated at a time - I felt like I was literally wading through a thick swamp trying to get to the end. The constant non-forward action really bugged me, too. Nothing was HAPPENING. It was just repetition of the same "conflict" over and over again for like, 200k.

But for real, mine and Joie's number one blah-factor right now is too many peripheral characters! Why why why put all these people in who serve no purpose? Why? Why? WHY?

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

But for real, mine and Joie's number one blah-factor right now is too many peripheral characters! Why why why put all these people in who serve no purpose? Why? Why? WHY?

Yikes, sounds like I got out just in time!

It was bad enough with the two (practically three) main characters as it was; introducing a cast of thousands would have had me looking for the nearest open window. ;-)

[jciseveryonesho.livejournal.com]

Yikes, sounds like I got out just in time!

It was bad enough with the two (practically three) main characters as it was; introducing a cast of thousands would have had me looking for the nearest open window. ;-)

lol, no, keep reading the fic of endless melodrama and tears! It's funny as long as you skim it.

That peripheral characters comment was about other stories (thinking of one in particular). Damn. I should hook you up, you'll enjoy banging your head against the desk, unsure of whether to laugh or cry. It was just pointless, pointless filler that makes less and less sense as it goes on. (Although JC and Justin finally get it on, so no complaints there.)

[ibythetide.livejournal.com]

Fox, I'm asking you to trust me when I tell you to finish the series. You HAVE to. Questions aren't answered, plot becomes even more tangled, descriptions continue to describe themselves. I love it!

Bad!fic, and it is bad!fic, is like a B movie or an annoying one hit wonder type song. You have to love it, encourage it, read it, so that one day it'll grow into something more. Or you know, you post and discuss with your friends.

so worth it, hon.

[bartinigirl03.livejournal.com]

I was just about there.

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

Fox, I'm asking you to trust me when I tell you to finish the series. You HAVE to.

Hear that whimpering? Yeah, that's me. ::whimper::


Questions aren't answered, plot becomes even more tangled, descriptions continue to describe themselves. I love it!

Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha! Bwahahahahahahahahahaha! *That* is priceless, and so very, very true, and one of the main reasons I ultimately had to stop reading. Oh my god, with the convolutedness of it all!

I've still got it. After I muster my courage I'll poke it with a stick, see if it's settled down any. Once the danger has passed, I might open the next chapter and have a look.

::cries::

[dexwebster]

I can't read bad!fic, I just can't do it. It makes me crazy; I just want to hit somebody.

Ditto that. It makes my head hurt.

[feenie.livejournal.com]

It's something you have to finish because...well, um, it's there!!

I was like Dammit I suffered this long, there has to be a prize at the end. There was...it was over!!

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

there has to be a prize at the end. There was...it was over!!

Mwahahaha! That was too funny. :-)

Yay! I want my prize! But, uh...I can wait! I might do the skimming thing, as suggested above. God, I can't believe the bad!fic-lovers have nearly convinced me to give this one another look.

help me...

[feenie.livejournal.com]

There is a new one out by the same author and I just...can't. It hurts to read that one, which is far worse than the first one ever could be.

Don't. Just don't!

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

It hurts to read that one, which is far worse than the first one ever could be.

Dude. Is that even possible? Seriously?

I'm gonna have nightmares.

[mitajoey.livejournal.com]

Okay, so now I feel left out because i don't know what you're reading. andikindasortawanttonow

[shaggyncurly.livejournal.com]

I refuse to comment for my kettle is sooo black and my house is much too tempered glass for that.... :-P

But I really do feel that we should praise and cherish bad!Joshtin, because without it I think a lot of the good Joshtin writers *wouldn’t* write, you know, they’d all probably just read in contented bliss. :-P But like, with the badific thy feel they must take matters into their own hands, or something like that, yeah.... :::shruuuuug:::

Now I *must* go back to my Xanosaga, dear!!!

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