Hilariously Bad (and Good) Fanfics

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Sun Mar 10, 2013 8:37 am

Breath of Fire 2 Novelization. Mostly good, with a few stupid bits. Downright quotable on occasion.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6615342/1/B ... The-Demons

Star Fox story with shades of a few other settings. Lylat gets invaded by genocidal jerks much more competent than Andross, and they are hard-pressed even though Corneria's built up a powerful military (and are more grey-hats now that they've gone on their own imperialism kick).
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3780019/1/S ... Over-Lylat

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Mar 10, 2013 11:26 am

MLP has a complete own diretory for Fanfiction.
Well, at least one i know of at least.
There are some pretty good ones in there too, (maybe not) surprisingly

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Tue Mar 19, 2013 6:52 pm

Read this
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4067416/1/D ... il_Mark_II

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Wed Mar 20, 2013 11:09 am

Avoraciopoctules wrote:Read this
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4067416/1/D ... il_Mark_II

That was funny. I was wondering how he was going to pull off the "you are the demons" line in that.

John Magnum · Post by **John Magnum** » Wed Mar 20, 2013 4:32 pm

It really highlights what a vast wasteland of mechanically-competent tedious mediocrity there is between thrillingly terrible fanfic and actually interesting writing.

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Sat Mar 23, 2013 1:01 pm

Sleeping with the Girls somehow takes the self-insert fanfic and makes it rather good. It accomplishes this mostly by not making the protagonist a marty-stu and realistically assessing the survival probability of a normal human, when thrown into worlds containing superhuman beings and/or slapstick martial arts comedy.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Sat Mar 30, 2013 4:11 am

"The world is a dangerous, violent place, and mankind vies for its very existence on a planet prowled by terrifying monsters and powerful creatures. Ash of Pallet Town, a talented trainer, knowing this all too well, sets out to change everything."
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5367085/1/The-Sun-Soul

If you want to read a Pokemon story that's heavier on the grimdark and puts a decent amount of thought into what kind of world gets created by the setting conceits, this is a pretty cool story. I found the ending really unsatisfying, but it was fun reading up to that point.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Sun Mar 31, 2013 11:44 am

It's an interesting story but it's got a tinge of chauvinism tucked into it with the strong women characters taking the lead from the guys a lot of the time. Also, I'm only like 7 chapters into this but no sex in a grimdark romance? Whaa ....

Grek · Post by **Grek** » Tue Apr 02, 2013 1:25 am

I've really got to recommend Friendship is Optimal and the sequel, Heaven is Terrifying. Basically, it's My Little Pony meets Metamorphosis of the Prime Intellect.

Count Arioch the 28th · Tue Apr 02, 2013 1:43 am

The Realest Ghostbuster

Mistborn · Post by **Mistborn** » Tue Apr 02, 2013 2:01 am

Since Aleph posted Chapter 1 of Power Games yesterday I thought I may as well point everyone to Game Theory.

It also has this whole worldbuilding... thing attached to it.

Ravengm · Post by **Ravengm** » Tue Apr 02, 2013 7:12 pm

Celebrian

The intro on the home page is appropriate.

Voss · Post by **Voss** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 2:23 am

shirak wrote: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.

Honestly I thought this fic was pretty terrible, to the point that I gave up around chapter 5. The writing wasn't bad, but the characterization of Harry was fairly ridiculous (as he spoke/acted like a PhD in his 40s, who doesn't even remember being a child), and was wandering around with the author's list of 'Shit I don't like about the Potter-verse and how I would fix it'. Far too much of a Mary Sue in protagonist's clothing.

The idea that a child, even one well read and inexplicably intelligent, is going to even think about altering a society 'for the better' is a major chasm to jump on the suspension of disbelief scale. Especially when exposed to only a handful of adults and a couple dozen brats.

erik · Post by **erik** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 5:17 am

Voss wrote: The idea that a child, even one well read and inexplicably intelligent, is going to even think about altering a society 'for the better' is a major chasm to jump on the suspension of disbelief scale. Especially when exposed to only a handful of adults and a couple dozen brats.

Really? I thought about such things throughout my childhood. 'Course, I grew up and realized it was childish to think a child knew how to change society for the better tho. A kid thinking the world should be better seems very kid like.

My limited experience tells that fan-fics suffer more from poor prose than from poor ideas. If the writing is good, then the ideas have to be really bad to generate the cognitive dissonance to make something unreadable for me.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 6:22 am

erik wrote:
My limited experience tells that fan-fics suffer more from poor prose than from poor ideas. If the writing is good, then the ideas have to be really bad to generate the cognitive dissonance to make something unreadable for me.

God yes.

I know a guy who keeps wanting 'feedback' on a fanfiction.

His ideas are great. His writing is terrible.

And turns out that when he says 'feedback', he really wants me to just rewrite every damn thing into something coherent and literate.

And got offended when I suggested he go read stuff that isn't fanfiction for about six months, especially in the genre he intends to write in--in this case, superheroes. So reading some fantasy and the like to help pick up some action and how to visualize and convey special effects.

Whipstitch · Post by **Whipstitch** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 7:21 am

erik wrote: Really? I thought about such things throughout my childhood. 'Course, I grew up and realized it was childish to think a child knew how to change society for the better tho. A kid thinking the world should be better seems very kid like.

I think the biggest stumbling block at that age tends to be the Just World hypothesis rather than a lack of good intentions. People are bad enough at identifying what the actual problems are before you factor in that for young things tons of shit is novel and may end up being considered the new normal.

Voss · Post by **Voss** » Thu Apr 04, 2013 12:56 am

erik wrote: My limited experience tells that fan-fics suffer more from poor prose than from poor ideas. If the writing is good, then the ideas have to be really bad to generate the cognitive dissonance to make something unreadable for me.

My experience is most of them suffer from both, and the rare cases where good writing combines with good ideas are the only ones worth reading.

That said, those cases are usually superior to the original author's attempts, since dissatisfaction with their crazy shit and piss-poor planning is usually what spawns fanfics in the first place.

Wiseman · Post by **Wiseman** » Sun Apr 07, 2013 10:08 pm

Let's do some touhou fanfics!

A wizard is you.

An awesome and hilarious CYOA about a 17 level DnD wizard accidentally entering gensokyo. Currently ongoing, although it might have reached it's climax about now. You might want to use the thread list at the top because theres no link between threads 4 and 5.

Retelling of Oriental Stories
A VERY good and very deep fanfic that puts an interesting spin on the events from touhou 6-8 plus one for touhou 10.

Imperfect Metamorphosis
Another awesome fanfic. It's far to complex to explain, but basically, some life destroying abomination ends up in Gensokyo, and after absorbing kaguya and mokou, ends up as an immortal life destroying abomination. Also explores just what sort of politics goes into a realm like Gensokyo.

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Sun Apr 07, 2013 11:58 pm

Voss wrote: The idea that a child, even one well read and inexplicably intelligent, is going to even think about altering a society 'for the better' is a major chasm to jump on the suspension of disbelief scale. Especially when exposed to only a handful of adults and a couple dozen brats.

A lot of kids want to alter society for the better. Most have no clue how to go about doing it. Generally, kids with superpowers and the desire to make the world a better are a recipe for disaster because their solutions are simplistic and unsophisticated and then tend towards unthinking black and white hero morality.

The real problem is that the kid with superpowers is going to be tempted to solve all the worlds problems by killing all the badguys, a solution which rarely works out well.

This is, essentially, the Anthony Freemont problem.

Also, someone's tags are broken.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Mon Jun 03, 2013 7:59 pm

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8096183/38/ ... Natural-20

The latest chapter, things are getting pretty interesting.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Wed Jun 05, 2013 10:25 am

Avoraciopoctules wrote:http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8096183/38/ ... Natural-20

The latest chapter, things are getting pretty interesting.

Well, the fic is amusing enough. I'm now of a mind to find other d&d/HP or some such fiction.

His idea of RAW is rather strange at times.

Grek · Post by **Grek** » Wed Jun 05, 2013 8:57 pm

Heart of Darkness is a Star Wars fan fic where the basic premise is Darth Vader finds out that Princess Leia is his daughter right off the bat and adopts her to be his Sith Apprentice/beloved daughter. It's surprisingly heartwarming for a story about Darth fucking Vader.

Whatever · Post by **Whatever** » Wed Jun 05, 2013 9:08 pm

So basically Vader's Little Princess?

Grek · Post by **Grek** » Wed Jun 05, 2013 9:13 pm

Opposite direction from that. Leia is trained as a Sith, so she runs around Force Choking senators at the tender age of 16. And Vader never ends up at any tea parties. It still has it's touching moments, but it's not as directly cutesy/happy as Vader's Little Princess.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 3:46 am

So, I was directed by the TV Tropes page for Goblet of Fire to a series of fanfics where Harry gets the sex talk from various people. They're not particularly well written, but they are pretty hilarious.

In the first, McGonagal tells Albus that she thinks Harry needs it, and that he should give it, given the respect Harry has for Albus.

Then Severus gives the talk to Harry because he doesn't think Albus could give one right. He also calls in Draco because he thinks his godson could benefit as well.

McGonagal thinks that Harry needs to hear from a woman. Harry pulls in Ron and Hermione because he can't bear to experience the humiliation alone.

Snape retaliates against Draco and Harry by having Hagrid explain half-giant husbandry.

Sirius had initially fobbed the duty off when Dumbledore tried to fob off on him. He reveals information that Harry probably could have done without.

Mad-Eye Moody really isn't qualified to be teaching teenagers anything, let alone sex.

Molly's a lovely woman. But not someone you want to receive yet another talk about sex from.

"Voldemort wrote [Harry] a letter because he thinks [he is] going to bugger him to death."

Fudge feels the need to get in on the action and shit all over it.

Remus tells Harry more things he never needed to know. Especially about him, Sirius and his father.

How best to get revenge on your rival? Tell his parents that you're engaged to him, but he's pressuring you for sex.

Draco tries to get his own revenge by accusing Harry of sexual harassment. Harry thinks faster and accuses Draco of attempting to rape him.

The stories are "mature" but not explicit. Well, other than the last one with Harry describing Draco wanting him on his hands and knees.