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

[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.