In a way, badfic is also the most sincere way of flattering. "He is having her baby" must have dozens of bad and mediocre writers recycling the idea, or at lest taking advantage of the new profile rise of Mpreg fics that the fic caused. There is nothing bad about this.
I think that it's more frustrating when people get *truly inspired* so that they will make a copy of the original. Like the fic "Supermarket in California"? It has a copy cat fic that gladly announces that it's a copy cat fic. I don't remember what shop Sheppard set up (a surf shop?) and the fic wasn't even that bad, but why, why why it had to be written in the first place? There was nothign new in it, not even the exaggareted emotional aspects that's usually present in badfics.
OH, and what also gets in my nerves are the Harlequin writers who didn't get the aspect of pastiche/sarcasm/absurdity of the original harlequin challenge, but took it with a face value, e.g. thinking that hey, a new genre of sappy romance in now in, let's write that.
I could write a fic where Rodney would get Mpregnant and then end up in a prison colony with Ronon and then they get rescued and after that, oh the agony since John is so Jealous of the bond formed between Ronon and Rodney, and let's name the baby after famous historical scientists, that's totally my original idea... But I won't write that, because I don't have the talent to write it so good that the badfic material would change to either absurdity or realism.
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I think that it's more frustrating when people get *truly inspired* so that they will make a copy of the original. Like the fic "Supermarket in California"? It has a copy cat fic that gladly announces that it's a copy cat fic. I don't remember what shop Sheppard set up (a surf shop?) and the fic wasn't even that bad, but why, why why it had to be written in the first place? There was nothign new in it, not even the exaggareted emotional aspects that's usually present in badfics.
OH, and what also gets in my nerves are the Harlequin writers who didn't get the aspect of pastiche/sarcasm/absurdity of the original harlequin challenge, but took it with a face value, e.g. thinking that hey, a new genre of sappy romance in now in, let's write that.
I could write a fic where Rodney would get Mpregnant and then end up in a prison colony with Ronon and then they get rescued and after that, oh the agony since John is so Jealous of the bond formed between Ronon and Rodney, and let's name the baby after famous historical scientists, that's totally my original idea... But I won't write that, because I don't have the talent to write it so good that the badfic material would change to either absurdity or realism.