Semantics

[leavethesky]

I've seen a lot of (apparently) very different definitions of badfic and crackfic going on in this comm, other LJs and metafandom, so how do you define them? Are they synonymous?

Comments

[theholyinnocent.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we all seem to agree that badfic is just bad--you read 3 sentences, you find 25 typos and grammatical mistakes, and you become Alex Cabot: "We're done here." But crackfic is the equivalent of a 50-car pile up on a major freeway: It's so spectacularly bad you just can't turn away. Like there's something about the plot or, in particular, the characterizations that are so compellingly wrong you just keep going out of sheer morbid fascination.