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Hilariously Bad (and Good) Fanfics
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 10:56 am
by Koumei
shirak wrote:
Maybe we should a new thread or something, we are supposed to talk about HP, not fanfics.
Sure.
Harry Potter is practically easy mode, especially with such gems as
My Immortal (check Youtube for dramatic readings of it).
There was a time where I wouldn't read fics per se, but MSTings. Yeah, Mystery Science Theater applied to fanfics. The Fauth brothers seemed to cover half the fic series about Evangelion, including no less than two Eva/Slayers crossovers (because they just combine so well!)
Now that this thread is started, people can discuss fics without being off-topic.
Proceed.
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 5:27 pm
by Lago PARANOIA
I have three favorite MSTing series.
The first one is a MSTing of an otherwise good Rescue Ranger fanfic. Under the Bridge. It's actually extremely competent for a fanfic (good grammar, nice internal logic and characterization, a level of violence appropriate for the show, no random insertion of strange fetishes), but it's still extremely mockable due to its author going off on strange tangents and constantly inserting engineering and physics references.
The second one is of a Sailor Moon/WWF crossover. No, the WWF guys aren't like possessed and get blue faces and the scouts have to purge the evil from them, the Sailor Scouts physically wrestle them without magical powers. You know what makes this endeavor extra awesome? Oscar Martinez is in this fic. That Oscar.
My third favorite MSTing was a MSTing of David Gonterman's Mobius Chronicles, which was a three-part Sonic the Hedgehog comic where Davey is a self-insert in a fursuit. What makes this notable is that it is a comic book MSTing as opposed to all-text and that it uses the Space Ghost Coast to Coast characters rather than the usual MST3K crew. Normally this is a bad idea because most non-standard cast MSTings suck and are just a way for the authors to boost their favorite series, but it works well in this instance.
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 2:19 am
by Maxus
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 4:08 am
by Zinegata
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 7:55 am
by Psychic Robot
The first one is a MSTing of an otherwise good Rescue Ranger fanfic. Under the Bridge. It's actually extremely competent for a fanfic (good grammar, nice internal logic and characterization, a level of violence appropriate for the show, no random insertion of strange fetishes), but it's still extremely mockable due to its author going off on strange tangents and constantly inserting engineering and physics references.
Sounds autistic. And surprisingly not creepy.
My favorite fanfic is Sonichu. (Does that count?)
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 8:04 am
by shirak
OK, the good:
Nobody Dies is a NGE fic in which Ikaru Yui never died. This produces MASSIVE changes and lots of weirdness. Highlights include a girl's night out for the female staff of NERV while Commander Ikari is playing RPGs with his son, Asuka's dad Pieter Sohryou defeating an Angel-spawn with an aircraft door and ending up best buddies with it and EVA-02 deciding a squirell is an Angel. Also, lots and lots of dimensional travel/crossovers
Kyon:Big Damn Hero is, obviously, about Suzumiya Haruhi. Actually it's about Kyon being a total Mary Sue and ends up in a pretty strange high school polyamorous romance so it might not be your thing. I rate it a guilty pleasure.
The Key to a Successful Interview is a Good First Impression! Ranma and Akane love each other very much. And the normal Ranma crazy is ramped up. No, really.
ARSENAL Shinji Ikari grew up dreaming the original NGE every night and ended up crazy (well, a different crazy then normal). So he takes NERV hostage with a suitcase nuke on his first day and things get crazier from there. VERY, VERY dark.
Hi Power Basically, ARSENAL with Harry Potter. HP gets the memories of his older self and goes to town on the Wizarding World.
Beautiful Destroyer Sailor Moon What if the girl destined to be Sailor Moon was a psychotic delinquent? Who was also genre savvy and smart? Cue Luna's facepalms
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 8:31 am
by ubernoob
What is ARSENAL?
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 4:20 pm
by Sir Neil
Hi Power and Beautiful Destroyer Sailor Moon are great.
"With blood all over her right leg up to mid-thigh, Usagi wiped the sole of her shoe off on the man's tattered and stained Rei Ayanami T-shirt. 'That, Naru-chan, is how you break your foot off in a motherfucker's ass.'"
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 6:53 pm
by Orion
shirak wrote:
ARSENAL Shinji Ikari grew up dreaming the original NGE every night and ended up crazy (well, a different crazy then normal). So he takes NERV hostage with a suitcase nuke on his first day and things get crazier from there. VERY, VERY dark.
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 9:07 pm
by Judging__Eagle
Children of an Elder God It's been.... a while since I last read this, but I remember it being pretty decent in terms of being an Eva/Cthulu Mythos fic. Normal angels are removed and replaced with elder horrors, the series gets pretty interesting, and examines the transhuman nature of "heroic" characters by making them actually transhumans. Not finished, but you'll have dozens of hours of reading material that's definitely several notches about the typical fanfic.
I used to be on a real Eva fanfic kick about 8-9 years ago. CoaEG was one of the later ones that I read that was entertaining and memorable, the later implications of what characters are becoming are actually really good for thinking about what a powerful PC looks like compared to other characters in a world setting.
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 1:13 am
by Lago PARANOIA
Gadget in Chains is good if you feel like breaking your brain.
It's like watching a Japanese horror movie. Instead of going for quick scares and intense heart-stopping action, it's a slow, creeping plunge into existential terror and agony where you feel numb rather than scared at the end. It's like A Sorcerer, A Demon, and Emeralds with the grammar cleaned up, made ten times as long, and much more Gadget-flavored homoerotica.
SONIC FIGHTS ROBOTNIK (all caps) is good if you feel like breaking your brain, too. However, instead of leaving you kind of wanting to die at the end, it will make you go 'WTF did I just read'? Not in a TTGL kind of way, more of a Salad Fingers kind of way.
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 2:58 am
by Surgo
When I was much younger, I liked
Pokemon MASTER. Not sure how well it aged.
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 4:52 pm
by Cynic
Surgo: I was thinking of that one as well. I tried reading it a while ago and I couldn't get past the first two pages.
Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 1:53 pm
by shirak
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Faced with the craziness of magic and the magical world, child genius and rationalist Harry Potter decides there is only one thing he can do: reenact the Enlightnment, bring the magical world out of the Dark Ages and teach them the power of Science!
This is the best damn fanfic I have ever read. Professional quality writing by a reseacher of AI, it's only bad point is the heavy proselytization towards rationalism. Though I don't think Denners will mind much.
Hi-lights include:
Neville Longbottom is a total military nut.
Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy try to out-flatter each other and end up with Lucius and McGonagal
very weirded out.
Hermione brings Harry back from the dead with a kiss of True Love... well, sort of.
Professor Quirell is heavily implied to have made a Horcrux out of the plaque on Pioneer 11. Yes, the one currently
outside the Solar System
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 5:50 pm
by Prak
shirak wrote:Professor Quirell is heavily implied to have made a Horcrux out of the plaque on Pioneer 11. Yes, the one currently outside the Solar System
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....That's frankly brilliant. Except... and I hate that I bring this up, but the presence of magic would likely have screwed up the fine instruments of the ship...
Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 7:25 pm
by shirak
Prak_Anima wrote:....That's frankly brilliant. Except... and I hate that I bring this up, but the presence of magic would likely have screwed up the fine instruments of the ship...
As far as I remember, the whole magic disrupts technology was specifically about Hogwarts. Too much background magic or something.
Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 3:31 am
by Prak
shirak wrote:Prak_Anima wrote:....That's frankly brilliant. Except... and I hate that I bring this up, but the presence of magic would likely have screwed up the fine instruments of the ship...
As far as I remember, the whole magic disrupts technology was specifically about Hogwarts. Too much background magic or something.
I think you're right, but a horcrux is some pretty major magic, and the instruments on a ship can be pretty damned delicate. I was just speculating, but there's no reason it couldn't be fine.
I always liked the idea of a character figuring out how to use the background magic to power electronics... He'd do a tidy bit of business at Hogwarts
Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 5:53 pm
by shirak
Prak_Anima wrote:I think you're right, but a horcrux is some pretty major magic, and the instruments on a ship can be pretty damned delicate. I was just speculating, but there's no reason it couldn't be fine.
I don't know man. We have no idea how the damn spells works. In d20 terms, if it's Instant and not Permanent there should be no interference. Also, said instruments are hardened.
Besides, if one person can figure out how not to interfere with the instruments it's Professor Quirell.
Prak_Anima wrote:I always liked the idea of a character figuring out how to use the background magic to power electronics... He'd do a tidy bit of business at Hogwarts
Read Hi-Power, it's heading that way. Though Wizards are canonically
way too stupid/narrow-minded/assholes to do it.
Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 5:57 pm
by Orion
The bigger problem is how his ghost is going to get back from outer space after his first body dies.
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 8:00 am
by Psychic Robot
First of all, there are no good fanfics. Ever.
Second of all, I consider Jack Chick to be a fanfic writer of the Bible. And his
latest is a doozy.
LOOK AT THE HEART. IT'S FUCKING DECEITFUL.
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 4:44 pm
by Prak
Orion wrote:The bigger problem is how his ghost is going to get back from outer space after his first body dies.
1-Inhabit horcrux until man goes back to the moon
2-Possess Astronaut
3-???
4-Profit!3-get back to earth.
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 5:03 pm
by Maxus
To show I'm more nerdy than I like admitting, I recall Voldemort -could- travel when he wasn't possessing someone. He was wiped out in England, and eventually went to Albania, where he ran into Quirrell.
So Quirrell could get his way back to earth. It'll take quite a while, though.
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 2:12 am
by Prak
Maxus wrote:To show I'm more nerdy than I like admitting, I recall Voldemort -could- travel when he wasn't possessing someone. He was wiped out in England, and eventually went to Albania, where he ran into Quirrell.
So Quirrell could get his way back to earth. It'll take quite a while, though.
Hence why I suggested Quirrel wait a bit. ...Unless a horcruxed soul can apparate...
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 7:10 am
by Lago PARANOIA
One of my regrets about Web 2.0 is that there isn't much in the way of legendarily bad fanfics anymore.
I mean, sure, you have your My Immortals and your Doom: Repercussions of Evil and you have your Pokegirls but... nothing really stands out anymore. Don't get me wrong, A Sorcerer, A Demon, and Emeralds is total fucking shit but in the Web 1.0 days its level of badness was unique enough to make people sit up and take notice. But today there are just so many other competitors that none of them can stand out.
I feel old. Remember when we used to play Oregon Trail II on Powermacs? What about Pogs? What about text-based MUDs? H-hold me, TGD, hold me tight.
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 7:38 am
by Kaelik
You played Oregon Trail II? What are you, seven. You are a child in my eyes.
