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Classic bad fic
Mar. 11th, 2006 06:51 pmNo, not any of the skeletons in my closet!
The other day I was picking through some stuff in my bloated collection and I came upon a true gem of a bad fic I found on the SW Fan Fiction Library in 1995. The story was execrable but it fit in the category of "so-bad-it's-good." In other words, it's as funny as anything you'll find on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mctabby's infamous Summary Executions. Generally SW badfic doesn't quite reach the depths of the worst of HP badfic, but this one is an exception. I'm not going to bust on the author (who in a fit of youthful indiscretion actually used her real name) but it's a Mara/Luke story. The plot, such as it is, involves Mara "realizing" she's in love with Luke and Luke realizing he's in love with her. Things are further complicated when Lando proposes to Mara and she turns him down because she tells him she's in love with someone else but she doesn't know who. Lando hires a bounty hunter to follow Mara around and see who the Other Man is.
The plot was cheesy enough but what made it a riot were the frequent typos ("she felt the cool sand against her bear skin"), the inability to spell out "apartment" (apt), the inability to spell Anakin Solo's name correctly ("Ankain"), and how nearly all of the characters were OOC. Lando goes to see the bounty hunter and the first thing out of the guy's mouth is, "Who do you want me to kill, Lando?" I didn't know Lando frequently ordered assassinations. Callista, one of Luke's hunnybunnies from the EU, had died and Han Solo sensitively says that Luke needs to get over it. Worst of all, Mara Jade cries on every freakin' page! Unfortunately (?) I lost the last part of the story but I remember little "Ankain" coming up to Mara and calling her "Aunt Mara" and asking if Luke's going to marry her. Mara, with tears in her eyes, gives the little fella a hug.
The other day I was picking through some stuff in my bloated collection and I came upon a true gem of a bad fic I found on the SW Fan Fiction Library in 1995. The story was execrable but it fit in the category of "so-bad-it's-good." In other words, it's as funny as anything you'll find on
mctabby's infamous Summary Executions. Generally SW badfic doesn't quite reach the depths of the worst of HP badfic, but this one is an exception. I'm not going to bust on the author (who in a fit of youthful indiscretion actually used her real name) but it's a Mara/Luke story. The plot, such as it is, involves Mara "realizing" she's in love with Luke and Luke realizing he's in love with her. Things are further complicated when Lando proposes to Mara and she turns him down because she tells him she's in love with someone else but she doesn't know who. Lando hires a bounty hunter to follow Mara around and see who the Other Man is.The plot was cheesy enough but what made it a riot were the frequent typos ("she felt the cool sand against her bear skin"), the inability to spell out "apartment" (apt), the inability to spell Anakin Solo's name correctly ("Ankain"), and how nearly all of the characters were OOC. Lando goes to see the bounty hunter and the first thing out of the guy's mouth is, "Who do you want me to kill, Lando?" I didn't know Lando frequently ordered assassinations. Callista, one of Luke's hunnybunnies from the EU, had died and Han Solo sensitively says that Luke needs to get over it. Worst of all, Mara Jade cries on every freakin' page! Unfortunately (?) I lost the last part of the story but I remember little "Ankain" coming up to Mara and calling her "Aunt Mara" and asking if Luke's going to marry her. Mara, with tears in her eyes, gives the little fella a hug.
