Next up on the Duelling Fics... McTabby!

[icarus]

In every test, there must be one easy question. Every contest should have one round where the winner is obvious... or is it?

Our next contest is tougher than you think. Flip Humour vs Serious Fics, WiPs vs Completed Work, Poetry vs Fiction. mctabby is known for making people laugh till they wet their pants, and for starting a cult with TWIB.

Which will win?
Wet Pants, or Cult?

The polls are now closed. The results are posted here.

Two Worlds And In Between
That Potter Slash

Write-ins galore!
Head Of Slytherin (direct link - Head of Slytherin
Got a MALFOY as my SEX TOY
PtQ in a Nutshell
You Look Tired, Harry Potter


Remember, tell us why you like it, no fic bashing (take it over to hpbnfdm_lives where everyone is armed and dangerous), and thanks to amanuensis1 I do accept write-ins.

The fine print:
Previous votes are Anna, Minx, Maya, Amanuensis, Rushlight, Sushi, Aspen, Cybele, and Cassandra Claire.
Void where prohibited.

Comments

[switchknife.livejournal.com]

TWIB, indubitably. One of the most perfectly structured and gripping pieces of fanwork--the kind that makes you think you'll buy the author's work in RL. That you'd sell your soul for it. I'm still in love with all of McTabby's characters--the irresistible enigma that is Albus, the ball of confusion and potential that is Aberforth, the politically-minded, eloquent, overtly ambitious Slytherin that is Julius Marvolo, and of course everyone else. McTabby's world is so complete, rich with magical theory and historical background, that it is its own universe--its own canon. Heck, I'd love it even if I hadn't ever read the Potter books.

Brilliant. Brilliant.

Do you plan to do a deathmatch between other people's stories when you're done deathmatching them against their own?

... Although I guess that might not work, because some stories are just so different that one can't begin to compare them. Amanuenis' stories, for example, are brilliant smut--and TWIB is brilliant, historically minded plot.

Hmm.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Do you plan to do a deathmatch between other people's stories when you're done deathmatching them against their own?

Nope. But I've a list of about a hundred BNFs to work from, so it'll be a while before I run out. ;)

... Although I guess that might not work, because some stories are just so different that one can't begin to compare them.

You've hit the nail on the head. You can't compare apples and oranges. Also, that doesn't accomplish much unless you're doing critical analysis such as isiscolo has begun. That's why the BNF deathmatches tend to be about popularity rather than the quality of the work (though quality is a factor).

Here, instead of asking the question 'who is more popular' we're asking something that authors are pretty interested in: how do your stories stack up against each other? And why?

Icarus