You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?

Early ,'Objects In Space'


Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?

This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.


amych - May 24, 2005 10:12:33 am PDT #107 of 10431
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

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.


Steph L. - May 24, 2005 11:03:28 am PDT #108 of 10431
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

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.


P.M. Marc - May 24, 2005 11:35:51 am PDT #109 of 10431
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

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.


askye - May 24, 2005 11:39:12 am PDT #110 of 10431
Thrive to spite them

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.


Anne W. - May 24, 2005 11:48:53 am PDT #111 of 10431
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

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.


Emily - May 24, 2005 11:51:20 am PDT #112 of 10431
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

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.


askye - May 24, 2005 11:54:07 am PDT #113 of 10431
Thrive to spite them

Anne - in the first story you linked to what's Firefly crossed with?


Gris - May 24, 2005 12:09:06 pm PDT #114 of 10431
Hey. New board.

I'm curious too. I read the story, I liked it, and I sort of half-recognize it, but only in the back of my memory somewhere.


Anne W. - May 24, 2005 12:13:56 pm PDT #115 of 10431
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

It's crossed with the Miles Vorkosomethingorother series by Lois McMaster Bujold.


§ ita § - May 24, 2005 12:15:17 pm PDT #116 of 10431
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I skimmed it, and that's what I wondered. But I hardly know that world. Seemed like a good match, though.

I wonder if Firefly could cross over well with BSG.