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[bagheera_san]

It's been a long time... since I've delved into the depths of badfic. Sometimes I stumble over something on TV and get this sudden, inexplicable yearning for fic and then I search for it on the net, and all there is is badfic porn written by people who are probably so young I would be feeling dirty if I hadn't been writing porn at that age too. And then, in a last bout of desperation, I go to ff.net... and it gets worse.

What has prompted this? I watched about ten minutes of Invader Zim. I had never seen it before. And suddenly I *needed* Zim/Dib slash. (I refuse to feel depraved.)

Comments

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Zim/Dibb????
*covers eyes*

[bagheera-san.livejournal.com]

*hides* I pleas temporary madness! It's gone now!

[theclexfactor.livejournal.com]

I thought I was the only one that thought that the general concensus on the fic at ff.net was "Bad". There are exceptions, but I found that the reason is because those authors also post at levelthree and/or SSA. But, sometimes it's like a trainwreck: you can't help but read it because, hell, you've read it this far, might as well see how it ends.

[bagheera-san.livejournal.com]

Strangely, back when I posted at ff.net, it seemed perfectly bearable to me. Sure, there was stupid stuff, but there was always good stuff, too (and there still is - it's just buried under giant mountains of crap that I have become too spoiled to wade through.) The one thing I could never bring myself to read was German fanfiction, because bad writing is so much worse in your mother-tongue than it is in a second language.