I don't really have a problem with pairing characters between the jossverse (well, except crossing over buffy or angel with firefly, that bugs) but it can make me roll my eyes. Depends on what the set up is.
However for the most part I have no problem with characters from other shows being paired up together. My exceptions are:
any of the vampire universes (Anita Blake, Dracula, Buffy, Forever Knight) being crossed over. The rules for vampires are so different that writers have to come up with convulated ways to make them mesh. Well, if it was a PWP then I wouldn't care, but the stories with a plot bug.
and, characters played by the same actor being crossed over into the various shows and movies.
characters played by the same actor being crossed over into the various shows and movies
I vaguely recall enjoying a Manchild/Buffy fic -- but admit that the idea is funniest to me when the resemblance is no never mind.
Okay, so, if anyone wrote a story with Methos, Lex, Krycek, Sark and Faith, there'd be some kind of quantum space collapse thingy and fan fiction would cease to exist. Or something.
Okay, so, if anyone wrote a story with Methos, Lex, Krycek, Sark and Faith, there'd be some kind of quantum space collapse thingy and fan fiction would cease to exist.
Sadly, no. They'd just post it to all the lists for all 5 fandoms and then whine when they got bad fb.
any of the vampire universes (Anita Blake, Dracula, Buffy, Forever Knight) being crossed over. The rules for vampires are so different that writers have to come up with convulated ways to make them mesh.
Have you read Connie's BTVS/Anita Blake fic? It's short (maybe a ficlet) and funny as hell, because of all the conflicting vampire rules.
I vaguely recall enjoying a Manchild/Buffy fic -- but admit that the idea is funniest to me when the resemblance is no never mind.
Victor wrote one, twisting the Patty Duke Show identical cousins thang. I seem to recall it were keen.
Okay, so, if anyone wrote a story with Methos, Lex, Krycek, Sark and Faith, there'd be some kind of quantum space collapse thingy and fan fiction would cease to exist. Or something.
A long time ago, when I was first writing, I decided it would be fun to write something where all the slashy hotties wound up naked in a field, shamelessly ripping off Riverworld, except without the baldness. (Except for Lex, mind. He was still bald.)
Never finished it, but it was fun writing while it lasted.
See, Connie's story is good and funny.
It's the stories that earnestly try to wank the rules to make the two universes meet.
It's the stories that earnestly try to wank the rules to make the two universes meet.
If it's done badly, or simply to get two likely victims in bed together, or if character bashing is a prime motivator (parody doesn't count), then yeah, it can suck.
OTOH, I love crossovers that find the story potential in the area where the two universes overlap. This one is a favorite, as is this.
My problem with crossovers which get the characters in bed together is that many authors seem to have to favor one over another -- and while I tend to be okay with that within a fandom, for some reason it bugs me more across fandoms.
