Dumbest Fanfic You Ever Wrote?

I was talking to a friend tonight about a certain distaste I have for most "purposefully bad" fanfics that people write, but confessed to having written an occasional one myself. I then had a flashback to what is possibly my dumbest fic - though it had purpose: To do something silly with a somber canon and to make a friend (a different friend who was making jokes with me about the setting) laugh.

I present to you, Shadsie's dumbest fic - purposefully insane...

Shadow of the Sweet Tooth - it is for Shadow Of The Colossus for all things. Plot summary for the short thing? - Dormin tells Wander the history of his sealing. It involves cookies. Lots of cookies.

Honorable mentions go to Road Trip a Super Smash Bros. zombie-apocalypse fic (which was written for last Halloween as a serious drama-horror fic with quirky humor and to "The Chu Files" a series of very ancient first-fics of mine that were crossovers between Video Game/Pokemon and The X Files.

So, what's the dumbest thing (which are the dumbest things) you have written that you're wiling to admit to?

I write comedy and dramedy as a matter of course, so I'm immune to feeling embarrassed over silliness. That said, there was one straight up drama that I really regret ever writing.

It was so bad that during the time it was up I kept wondering if and when it would be added to the now defunct Horrible.Fan Fic, with the only reason "if" would be in question being obscurity.

I recently reread the damn thing and had to go Caustic Critic on myself about it. Let me count all of the things I did that I wasn't happy with:

• It was so OOC even I knew it was when I wrote it
• It was gratuitously violent and had gratuitous sexual themes
• I used Ron the Death Eater... on a character I like
• I tried to make him remorseful of a big mistake but ended up making him Unintentionally Unsympathetic... to me from the future
• Speaking of which, to fill the void of said derailed into evil character, I created a lampshaded Copy Cat Stu (as if pointing out my problems would make them go away)
• He was also a Relationship Stu
• In the process I made my OTP for good chemistry look completely unhealthy and terrible
• By including said Relationship Stu I also broke a golden rule of mine to never ship a character with Single-Target Sexuality with someone other than their crush
• That character was also turned into a Black Hole Sympathetic Stu
• The ending was rushed and made no sense
• Oh and there were some plot holes and a convention error too

The worst part is that all of the fics I wrote around the same time frame and many I wrote earlier were so much better than this one. To this day, I still don't know why I ever thought this was a good idea. The Old Shame to end them all.

edited 18th Sep '15 10:06:41 AM by PPPSSC

Tie between everything I wrote for the Pantheon here and that one Precure/Danganronpa crossover I wrote 2 years ago that no one bothered to tell me was really, really, bad.

And I'm also 90% sure that the latter is why I have a tendency to have issues with assuming my stuff sucks.

As a joke on Deviantart thread I wrote a small snippet about Hitler and Stalin being gay with each other and Eva Braum being pregnant with their test tube love child.

edited 18th Sep '15 12:39:50 PM by Nate-of-a-Hundred-Things

~blushes~ a songfic about the oc from my first ever fic, a terribly cliche digimon...thing that somehow managed to get 60+ reviews. basically line from the song/OC's thoughts/Line from the song/ her vapid love triangle-y Sue-ish thoughts and so on.

/hangs head in shame/

A script fic that's Mickey's Christmas Carol...with Blazblue characters. Also, english isn't my first language and I wrote it in a hurry during Christmas.

WITNESS

A ridiculous self-indulgent Kingdom Hearts fic that involved several of the canon characters, along with the OC I had for the fandom at the time. It also involved the OC's group of friends, who had all the personality of cardboard cutouts.

The premise was that they were all randomly sent to some wizard's castle. He had an apprentice, who was some character I'd doodled one day. I liked her design enough to use for the story. They sorta just hung out there before it turned out that the wizard was evil and wanted all their hearts for power or some shit like that. I left off after his apprentice had just helped them escape, at which point I realized that this whole thing was incredibly stupid even for what it was.

To my credit, I at least realized it was stupid, which is why I never shared it with anyone.

Probably the dumbest one I ever wrote was one I wrote when I was very little where some Yoshis, the Koopalings, some Hanna-Barbera characters, the worm from Bookworm, and some OCs of mine teamed up to stop an evil clown cheetah from imprisoning everyone in a book of deadly Fractured Fairy Tales. The description doesn't do it justice.

As for something that I legitimately uploaded onto the internet? My first in a series of connected stories has all the usual flaws of fanfic-writing: OCs, Self-Insert, a Generic Doomsday Villain, and a rather blatant Deus ex Machina that resolves the plot. Old Shame!

I also wrote a story involving Ed, Edd n Eddy and Lugia saving the universe from evil jars of pickles that intended on eating everyone. At one point, Dora the Explorer drives the TARDIS. See it in all of its insane glory here. (Unlike the last story, I don't really view it as an Old Shame. I feel the writing's a lot better than the first, but it's just so off-the-wall that it would definitely fall into this. It actually started off as a Crack Fic, but I wound up taking the idea more seriously than I thought I would.)

edited 18th Sep '15 8:06:37 PM by kablammin45

A one-shot where Voldemort attacked while James was on the crapper. It ends with James knocking Voldy out with War and Peace because he left his wand in the bathroom.

Dumb premise, brilliant execution.

edited 18th Sep '15 8:12:45 PM by EvaUnit01

An alternate ending to a certain The Magic School Bus episode. Fortunately, it was never posted on any fanfic site.

Oh, sorry that I didn't read the first post.

edited 18th Sep '15 9:39:48 PM by TroperNo9001

I didn't necessarily mean bad fanfic, just dumb fan fic. Things you did dumb on purpose for fun or stuff that you were serious about but realized had a really stupid premise later.

I'm embarrassed about the Pokemon / X-Files stuff I used to do, but the other stuff I linked and mentioned? Oh, I'm PROUD of it. It's... stupid, but stupid-fun.

Then again, I'm pretty easygoing with fic in general. I used to submit my own work for Mystery Science Theater 3000 style riffing back when I knew someone who did that.

Oh man, I know the answer to that right away! But I don't know if I can safely give it, due to the Forum rules I just read. Let's just say, I once wrote a "Harry Potter" crack-fic that involved the giant spiders and the flying car. (I was inspired by the infamous squid-on-castle fic "First Encounter.")

I once wrote a Lassie fanfiction where Timmy falls down a well and tells Lassie to get help. Lassie, being a dog, doesn't understand him and just walks away, and Timmy starves to death.

It's not the worst thing I ever wrote, so I never got to taking it down.

Other dumb things I did:

• Those two poorly characterized and under-researched stories I wrote when I was a sheltered 15-year-old trying to be edgy (yeah, not too proud of those either, down the trash chute).
• That one zero-effort story that I wrote as a request for someone "out of obsession season"^note I have serially obsessed over works for as long as I can remember. If the obsession is "hibernating" then the inspiration doesn't come as naturally which I left up because it wasn't offensively bad and somehow some people like it. (Others hate it, unsurprisingly). Definitely gets more attention than it should, comparatively.
• A dumb thing I actually haven't disowned is a weird experimental piece where the story is told from the point of view of a non-sapient horse. It was fun to write, but it was ridiculous.

I wrote a One Piece fan fic where Luffy was reunited with his childhood best buddy "Drake". Who ate a Devil Fruit on the same day Luffy ate his and got the power to make blades come out of his body. Drake had a crew of his own, almost exclusively people that the Straw Hat crew had encountered on their journeys that would have no reason to be on his crew.

It ended with all of them singing "Bohemian rhapsody" for some stupid fucking reason.

"Powerpuff Jackass". A few profoundly stupid chapters of Powerpuff characters enduring stunts Jackass-style. I can't remember most of what I put them through, but Professor Utonium did take a few shots to the groin. It was so bad it got a dishonourable mention in reviews and author's notes in other fanfics at the time.

Edited by Zarius on May 10th 2020 at 2:15:43 AM

Dumbest Fanfic I Ever Co-Wrote?: I just remembered one time when my sister and I were very sleepy on a late-night car trip and started writing a story to pass the time. It started out with a sentient orange grape trying to get to Georgia but eventually became a Crazy Awesome Ed, Edd n Eddy story where Atlanta was being sucked into a black hole and Ed could only save it if he could play the guitar better than an evil pineapple that could turn into a dolphin...or something. (Ed won and saved Atlanta, but it wound up being All Just a Dream.) Benson also made a cameo appearance.

The next morning we looked at the utter ridiculousness that was that story and laughed while wondering just how tired we were.

edited 11th Nov '15 1:04:17 PM by kablammin45

Professor Oak?

I wrote a Yu-Gi-Oh! fanfic when I was 11 with myself as a self insert big good that several of the characters who randomly got magic powers were trying to awaken for a magical war, and I made a minor character from the show I really liked into some really powerful knowing mage. I'm so glad the site it was on is gone.

That sounds adorable - in a pathetic kid-way. Just... cute.

Thank you? I mean, it was terribly written, but writing it and being passionate about writing it led me to keep writing fics and getting better to where I am today.

My dumbest FF is probably the one I'm working on now: 私は、キラ / I, Kira.

Yeah, the word pathetic is a bit too much. Otherwise its a cute post about a cute bad fic.

edited 10th Dec '16 11:23:21 PM by AegisP

Whoops, I meant Utonium, not Oak.

..Though that may have elevated it slightly if it'd been the latter.