The Azrael/Catwoman crossover--was that an Elseworld?--was hysterically funny, Azrael doing his best Sam Spade imitation.

I love love love Gotham Noir, and would kind of like to see fic set in that Elseworld.

The really good Elseworlds are REALLY good. The bad ones are REALLY REALLY terrible.

And then there's Thrillkiller.

Which may be bad, but had my number from go.

Gotham Noir was cool, and he had a sensible girlfriend.

In Darkest Night was hysterical.

What did you think of Nine Lives?

I'm really, really looking forward to writing the rest of the Bart/Kon I started.

And I really need to finish that Robin thing before issue #127 comes out, don't I? (And then more Cass/Steph and Kon/Tim and Dick/Tim and Batman/Superman and Bruce/Cass and that crazybadwrong Elseworld Bruce/Tim and -- meep.)

I can see the appeal of the other side.

I can see the appeal, too, and maybe a reason why RPS in general doesn't grab me is because I'm more of a chaos-within-a-framework thinker than make-a-framework-out-of-chaos. If... that makes any sense?

And then there's Thrillkiller.

Thrillkiller is pretty, and hits one of my bulletproof Bruce kinks, so therefore it is good and right.

Thrillkiller hits my bulletproof Babs kinks.

So, yeah.

In Darkest Night was hysterical.

Wasn't it? Though it made me completely mess up my Green Lantern Oath for a week.

What did you think of Nine Lives?

I have it, and haven't read it yet. Who wrote it?

Dean Motter. It's possible it might hit a button or two of yours. It certainly slotted Dick into one of mine.

It certainly slotted Dick into one of mine.

Must! Resist! Because I am not twelve! Except apparently I am.

I totally lost the button metaphor, didn't I?

Freud may have had a point.

I often find lack of canon to be personally prohibitive. And on the flip side, too much canon acts the same way. (Hello, Batverse!)

Mmmm. This is something I haven't really thought about for all that I've been in popslash for two (!!) years now. It's pretty fascinating, but the best part about is the sheer line between original fiction and fanfiction. It's like--choose your own adventure, kinda. There's characters you will always come back to, but the story is different every time. And not just different in a Ray drinks whiskey and has sex with Fraser versus Ray gets on a motorcycle and has sex with Fraser--it's Justin has wings and slowly disappears into himself, and then Justin is a detective looking into the mysterious disappearance of one Nick Carter. And then Justin is struggling with depression as they're going through the Atlantis concert. And Chris and Lance fall in love even though they hate each other in Germany. And so forth, and so on. What Brenda said, basically; because even though there is a canon, and even though there is a sort of common denominator for characterisation, you can throw all that out the window and it will still be a valid portrayal of these characters.

Lotrips is different--if not in theory, than in nature, because the authors tend to stick to the canon they have and certain characterisations without moving too far out of that border. Though stuff like wingfic and genderbending is sort of making its way through there. It's a different set of writes, and a different feel to the fandom.