Slave Bear of Care-A-Lot
| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Slave Bear of Care-A-Lot |
| Author(s): | Tami |
| Date(s): | December 21, 2005 |
| Length: | 3938 |
| Genre: | |
| Fandom: | Care Bears |
| External Links: | Yuletide Treasure (archived); on AO3 |
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Slave Bear of Care-A-Lot is a fanfic written by Tami for Rose Fox in the Yuletide 2005 Challenge. It features the BDSM adventures of the Care Bears and various other characters from Care Bears movies. It is regarded as a hilarious parody, experiment, shockfic, or testament to the insanity of Yuletide.
The author is urbanAnchorite writing under the pseudonym Tami.[1]
Summary: Oh, no! What will the Care Bears do when Grumpy loses the worst thing of all - his ability to care? Only love will save the day.
Influence on Yuletide
In addition to thoroughly "traumatizing" lots of Yuletide participants, it got many comments and was linked all over the place, raising questions about feedback and the "right way" to do Yuletide. It has subsequently inspired other trauma-inducing badfic, crackfic, and shockfic concepts for Yuletide, some of which were actually written, while others were only discussed in the Yuletide chatroom.
Reception
Typical Reactions
Rose Fox:
Oh. My. God. This is the best present I could possibly have received. You went absolutely above and beyond the call of duty. I am floored, stunned, gabberflasted, and thrilled beyond measure. What's worse, I'm turned on. Wow. We're all going to hell, you know, but boy will we enjoy the trip; and when we get there, please remind me to buy you a drink. Thank you thank you thank you thank you! (Wow, clicking a button marked "submit" has a whole new meaning for me now.[2]
Other Reactions
People other than the intended audience have also been subjected to this story. In a 2010 fanfiction review on Topless Robot, Rob Bricken wrote, "No one writes pleasant, nice erotica about the Care Bears. No, if you're writing about Care Bears fucking, you're writing about them raping each other, despite the fact that consensual sex is much more in the Care Bears' caring nature (or so I would think)."[5] Rob's review may be an example of Context Collapse, as the review was part of a weekly column that mocked (unintentional) badfic.
Notes
- ^ Anonymous asked: did you actually write care bear bdsm. Originally posted 2014. Accessed September 15, 2021.
- ^ Sat 24 Dec 2005 07:00PM EST
- ^ Comment by Rani on the old Yuletide archive. Originally posted October 11, 2008. Accessed August 26, 2010.
- ^ Comment by Ameneko on the old Yuletide archive. Originally posted August 28, 2007. Accessed August 26, 2010.
- ^ Rob Bricken. Fan Fiction Friday: The Care Bears in "Slave Bear of Care-a-Lot", Topless Robot, Dec. 3 2010