New Level of Play: Crack/Bad Fic Challenge!

[dancingdragon3.livejournal.com]

Note: Player’s Masterlist for July will be posted as soon as I’ve read all your entries. I’m sure everyone’s passes for all the prompts, but since I’ve pulled out the mod hat lately, I have to be fair and do so with everyone. (Recent work and personal RL has kept me busy, but I hope to finish them tonight!)

Announcement: There’s been a special challenge issued within the comments of August’s puzzle reveal. In the interests of fairness, this is me opening the challenge to all Puzzlers for all Puzzles! I hope some of you find this new level of play inspiring. Let's let our muses have some fun!

Crack/Bad Fic Challenge:

Set your main genre to 'crack fic' or 'bad fic'.
Fics can additionally be romance, action, horror, etc.
Crack pairings also count, but the whole fic must still be 'cracky' or 'badly' written.

Use most (5-8) of the available prompts in silly or random ways.

Rather than being shown, prompts can be randomly mentioned, preferably as non-sequiturs that have nothing to do with the fic’s action/setting/etc.
The fic must still be well-written, and most of all - funny and ridiculous! Or melodramatically sad and ridiculous.

Please include “Crack” or “Bad Fic” in your header, along with the number of prompts.

There is also a new 'crack/bad fic' tag.

Entries will receive a special, personalised Crack/Bad Fic Champion banner!

*Crack/bad fics are not eligible to be winners.

Where is the line between humor and crack? I'd say somewhere around canon/reality adherence, suspension of disbelief, OOC, and no higher purpose beyond the ludicrous.
More Questions? Don't hesitate to ask below...

Comments

[thenewbuzwuzz.livejournal.com]

What an intriguing idea. So quite theoretically, if I wanted to do this, where exactly should I post it?

[dancingdragon3.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear it sounds intriguing!

And whoops. Are you coming here from myth_fan? Cause if so, this question makes me realize I left a posting note off the puzzle reveal over there. Ill correct that when I get home from work.

But in answer, if you want a reward banner, each puzzle is due to puzzleprompts on the last day/night of each month. Beyond that, members of our affiliates, like myth_fan, can post completed puzzles wherever and whenever you like, including to our AO3 archives.

[thenewbuzwuzz.livejournal.com]

Oh-kay. Sounds fair! Thanks.

[luminations.livejournal.com]

YAAAAAAAAAAY! It's official! I'm looking forward to seeing what wicked_jester comes up with :D

The only fic I've ever actually won any sort of prize for was badfic. *snicker* Such a dubious honor, eh?

[dancingdragon3.livejournal.com]

Such a dubious honor, eh?

Actually, I think that's cool! I found the one bad fic I wrote to be one of the hardest fics ever. My beta had a terrible job getting me to be ridiculous enough, lol. In a comedic duo, I would be the 'straight man' :-/

So now that it's open to everyone, I'm curious as to what you may come up with...;-)

Also, I had no idea until I looked for this, that AO3 had those tags! AO3 really is the most comprehensive archive ever. It's pretty awesome.

[luminations.livejournal.com]

So your beta had to get you to make it worse instead of better? Hehe, cute.

If I were to write something I probably wouldn't want to post it to AO3 though :) They DO have some crazy tags... and I like that you can make up your own tags. But I'm not a big fan of using a lot of tags, revealing too much about the story... I've probably missed picking up some readers because of it but meh.

[dancingdragon3.livejournal.com]

But I'm not a big fan of using a lot of tags, revealing too much about the story... I've probably missed picking up some readers because of it but meh.

I get not wanting to spoil. And I swear, some fics over there have more tags than story! If I see more than five pairings, or five lines of tags, I get overwhelmed and don't bother clicking.

But I seem to have the opposite problem to you. I keep getting comments saying the fic wasn't what they were expecting, so I worry that I'm using the tags wrong, lol.

[luminations.livejournal.com]

Yes I've seen fics like that with way too many tags to even bother reading through! Ugh! I don't like being spoiled for stories myself so would rather know only the bare bones. I kind of hate the idea of even warning for major character death :\ Wonder if I'd get flamed for hiding behind "chose not to use archive warnings" on that!

It's not what they were expecting? Huh. How do they know what to expect in the first place? I've probably disappointed some people with different expectations too, but I assume they mostly just shrug and stop reading. I mean, aside from that one anon who felt the need to tell me exactly what chapter it stopped being good. Ha.