YMMV / Blue Moon Nursery

• Bile Fascination: Many people sought out the story for themselves when they heard of its sadistic themes, especially for a Smurfs fanfiction.
• Broken Aesop:
  • The author persuades its readers that the torture of smurfs, baby smurfs especially, is a repugnant act... only to then proceed to describe the horrors they went through in great detail, with pictures of said tortures accompanying them. It sends a very mixed message, to say the least.
  • Even after events such as Tattlerette making a speech about how smurfs should not be trafficked and the scenes that serve evidence that smurfs are not fit to be raised by humans, neither the narrator nor the nursery staff consider that the baby smurfs should be given to a village where they can be with other smurfs. While a Smurf rights group warns the possibility of liberating the babies from the nursery after Strawberry and Pom-Pom are rescued, it's meant to be seen as a bad thing that "the precious babies could be taken away".
  • The fic also talks about how abusing Smurfs is bad yet the narrator himself mistreats the Smurfs, whether or not he means it.
• Designated Hero: The narrator is supposed to a kind person who takes in orphan Smurfs. However, he acts pretty unpleasant to the Smurfs such as putting them under a running sink to wash them and constantly poking and prodding (which the Smurfs clearly don't like) them because it's "cute". As DeadwingDork points out, the narrator treats the Smurfs more like toys than actual people, despite the narrator saying the you should treat baby smurfs like how you should treat a human baby.
• Do Not Do This Cool Thing: Despite the narrator insisting that there's a special place in hell for those who torture baby smurfs, he seems to spend a lot of time talking about their anguish as meticulously as possible. And don't even get us started on the pictures...
• Esoteric Happy Ending: The two abused baby smurfs have been rescued and are said to be on a road to recovery... but not only did the Smurfnapper run away before he could get caught and is still out there, the Blue Moon Nursery and the narrator have shown that they aren't really competent in giving care to baby smurfs themselves.
• Glurge: As the story draws to a close, the baby smurfs try to overcome their traumatic experiences and begin their journey of healing, but it's preceded by long walls of text explaining their inhumane treatment at the hands of a serial smurfnapper, complete with disturbing imagery to drive the point home. Not helping is that the story rarely delves into their happier moments, so the babies end up being in a perpetual state of despair for most of the story in a banal attempt to tug at the readers' heartstrings.
  • Even when the story isn't being non-stop misery, the intended heartwarming and cute moments tend to fall flat due to how the narrator mistreats the smurfs and how weirdly sinister these scene come off as.
• Nightmare Fuel: The violent moments are what seal the story in going from mildly cringeworthy to outright bone-chillingly disturbing.
  • The description of the Runt's injuries in the dryer incident is retold indirectly from her point of view, detailing the heat of the dryer and the hard impact upon hitting the walls.
  • The juxtaposition of Snickers's adoption flyer next to the picture of his decayed corpse. Considering how it's a skeleton at this point, it's safe to say he was there for a long time.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: The dearth of momentary breaks from the hectic plot can eventually make some readers feel numb to the graphic depictions of babies being brutalized or just simply lose interest altogether.

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