Sporking: A line by line critical analysis of fanfiction, typically of the Utterly Horrible or occasionally So Bad It’s Good variety. Derived from the term “Sporking one’s eyes out”, implying that the fic is so bad that most people would prefer to attack their own eyes with sporks rather than read it. Also the verb for performing such an analysis.
-Urban Dictionary
“Sporking” as I’ve seen the word used can also apply to metaphorically tearing the story apart, as one would do literally with a useful combination utensil.
Anyway, I shan’t be “sporking” things line by line here, because what I’ll be reviewing here are published works and that’s not allowed. Instead, I’ll describe/recap the pertinent points and pick out especially egregious lines. A la popular comm Das Sporking, I’ll also use “counts” for recurring tropes. “Sporking” also generally refers only to works which are objectively bad, and the works I bring here won’t be that, just bizarre from the point of view of an outsider like me.
