Oh the shame.

[botias]

I recently posted the first part of my babyfic at seasonal_spuffy I get from the air of apology in some of the comments that babyfic is the red-headed stepchild of Spuffy. Maybe even the red-headed stepchilde. So what if Buffy barely knows one end of an infant from the other and Spike probably just looks at 'em and thinks 'Yum!'.

Maybe babyfic readers need a safe, supportive place to congregate. Babyfic Readers Anonymous (BRA) OK, lame.

Comments

[db2305.livejournal.com]

Heh! I adore babyfic--when it's done well. It can be cloying and saccharine and barf-inducing--and it is in most cases. But when done well, there are gooey rewards and sighs of satisfaction.

Go read my babyfic!

[appomattoxco.livejournal.com]

You wrote babyfic! I must've read it but don't remember it so it's the next best thing to new. Link please.

[db2305.livejournal.com]

http://home.planet.nl/~dutchbuffy2305/crossing_into_unchipped_country.htm


Crossing Shadow River is the babyfic!

And also in my last Christmas story, Hot Springs Eternal....

[botias.livejournal.com]

Cool! Will do. That's part of what I love about Herself's Spuffy. It's so angsty and well written, yet everyone once in a while...

[appomattoxco.livejournal.com]

I'd join!

[botias.livejournal.com]

:D Can you imagine? The babyfic ficathon?

[appomattoxco.livejournal.com]

Fandom is an odd and wonderful thing. Threesomes cool! Slash even better! I think I even saw an incest ficathon a while ago. I know I saw a male pregnancy parody one. But most of the good writers would steer clear of the babyficathon out of sheer embarrassment.

[botias.livejournal.com]

So true. It takes real guts to not be avant garde. ;)

[rahirah]

It's just that there's so much bad babyfic out there--fic that's not just cloying and saccharine, it turns Buffy into a Pod Mommy, and if the kids are allowed to get old enough to talk, they're invariably impossibly cute, brilliant, superpowered, and talk like the twee forty-year-old midgets that most TV sitcom writers replace actual children with.

Most babyfic makes me cringe. And yet I keep reading it anyway, on the off chance something good will turn up.

[botias.livejournal.com]

And yet I keep reading it anyway, on the off chance something good will turn up.

Me too. Hope springs eternal. I find I have a high tolerance for bad fiction, in any case. If I like the story and it moves well, I don't particularly care if someone occasionally garnishes someones attention rather than garnering it. Or if there are adverbs everywhere, or the prose is so purple it's almost beyond the visible spectrum.

[timeofchange.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure who said what, but I'm always up for some good babyfic. I read the first part and liked it a lot, and came here looking for the rest. Is there a rest? You didn't let a few comments discourage you, I hope.

[botias.livejournal.com]

I just posted more. :) No bad comments, I just noticed that many people are rather apologetic about liking babyfic, as it has a bit of a reputation.