Badfic

Badfic is fanfiction that is very badly written, characterized, structured, or all of the above. It can refer to fic written badly by accident, or fic written badly on purpose for amusement, such as on the site Bad Fanfic! No Biscuit!, but is not to be confused with the Lord King Bad Fic.
The term can also apply to fanfic that is competently written, but contains bizarre, absurd, or brain-breaking content, as in the infamous Care Bears BDSM rapefic, Slave Bear of Care-A-Lot.
One of the most infamous badfics is a bizarre "emo scene" work called My Immortal, loosely set in the Harry Potter universe. It has never been fully decided if this work, riddled as it is with bad spelling, terrible sex, and catty notes from the author, was written as a deliberate attempt to troll the fandom or a serious attempt at writing a story.
Since 2005, MrsHamill has run The Great Bad!Fic Challenge, a multifandom (originally The Phantom Menace) challenge for deliberate badfic.
Evolfic was what the Homicide: Life on the Street fan community called intentional badfic. The term was taken from
something Munch said about "Love backwards is 'evil', then somebody corrected him and said it was 'evol'. Hence evol fic. The Lord King Bad of their time. Deliberately written Evolfic was gathered together into the the Evolist FanFic Archive, Evar! Evolist FanFic Archive The archive was run by the TwoWeevils.
In 2006, svmadelyn's Smallville and Stargate Atlantis Badfic Summary Mini-Ficathon had fic writers first submit badfic-style summaries of as-yet-unwritten fic, and then quickly write fic (excerpts) for each other's summaries. The challenge generated many fandom (at least on the SGA side)Could use ref examples from the Smallville submissions from someone familiar with those? classics in both the deliberate badficAnd Thanks For All The Fish by iamtheenemy, SGA. Fanfiction.net fic-type spoof in which John is a were-dolphin.Still the One by devildoll, SGA. Genderswap, unicorn-saving, non-con, and songfic all in one.101 Uses for Spellcheck by someinstant, SGA. Metafic about badfic. and "well written fic from loltastic summary" genres.Under the Sea by astolat, SGA. College AU.An Aesthetic Solitary Thing by eliade, SGA. Rodney is an alien with pon farr issues.
cupidsbow's 8 ways not to write a fanfic (2007) and sequel With 6 You Get Unicorns (2008) deconstruct badfic and are also meta reflections on the genre. Among other things, the stories parody badfic formatting and flashback indicators, OOC behavior, songfic, Trinity, extreme woobieism, badsex, Mary Sues, were-unicorn issues, and end with an unforgettable reference to My Little Pony.
Comments from writers of deliberate badfic:
Connotations has had a yearly badfic panel for a while, at which examples are discussed of amusing mistakes made in fic, cracky fic, and other types of bad!fic. In 2010 it had illustrations of spelling mistakes, such as "furry was written across his face" and a "rouge angle" (presumably intended to be a rogue angel).
While many fans have wondered over the years what makes badfic so attractive to some readers, so far only one fan has attempted to offer a unifying theory for the phenomena: alexfandra's satirical Standby Theories for the Inexplicable Poor Taste of Fans.
Although it is not specifically a fanfic competition, students of badfic may be interested in The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest,The Bulwar-Lytton Fiction Writing Competition an annual contest to write the worst opening passage for a story in any genre.
==Further reading==
* MSTing
* Sporking
* Turkey Reading
==Notorious Badfic Titles==
These are the badfics that are infamous for incomprehensibly bad technical writing, mishandling of taboo or sensitive subjects, or their authors exhibiting wanky behavior.
* My Inner Life (The Legend of Zelda, Mary Sue)
* Artemis's Lover (Sailor Moon, self-insert, bestiality, underage)
* ChibiUsa's Seventh Birthday (Sailor Moon, graphic pedophilia/incest/rape)
* Cloud Mows the Lawn (Final Fantasy VII, graphic scat)
* It'/s All Too Much (Beatles RPF, Mary Sue, mpreg)
* For Your Eyes Only (Naruto, mpreg/furry)
* My Immortal (Harry Potter story) (Harry Potter, parody of Mary Sues)
* Starkit's Prophecy (Warriors, parody of Mary Sues in a similar vein the My Immortal)
* Legolas by laura (LOTR, self-insert)
* Salivation (SpongeBob SquarePants, racism/homophobia/general bigotry)
* Rini's Horrible Death (Sailor Moon, child abuse)
* Dipper Goes To Taco Bell (Gravity Falls, shock, erection, gore, graphic scat and eating it)
* Agony in Pink (Power Rangers, graphic rape, graphic torture)
* Cupcakes (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, gore)
* Hogwarts Exposed (Harry Potter, sensationalized rape/attempted rape, pedophilia, Mary Sue)
* Celebrian (LOTR, shock, graphic rape, graphic torture)
==Site or Community Examples Which Highlight or Mock==
* Bad Bang
* Bad Buffy
*Bad Fanfic! No Biscuit!
* The Bad Fanfiction Terror Squad
*boudicca BadFic (focusing on NSync fanfic) (archived link)
* Citizens Against Bad Slash
* The Classic Badfic Archives
* Down in the Basement
* Fan Fiction University
* Fanfic's Critics
* Fandom Whore Hates You All
* Feel Our Pain
* Godawful Fan Fiction
* Los Malos Fics y Sus Autores (Spanish-Speaking Fandom)
* Mary Sue Whipple
* Melvin's Mauve Mansion of Manlove
* No Cookie for You: Bad Buffy Fics
* Protectors of the Plot Continuum
* SlashFic Hall of Shame
*Smartania
* The Wicked X Witches of Badfic Punishment
* The X-Files Fanfic Hall of Shame
==Further Reading/Meta==
* Six Degrees of Badfic (2001?)
* In Defence of Bad!Fic, by nindulgence (January 2004)
== References ==