December Daily: crossovers

mific asks: crossovers - do you like reading them? Do you write them?

Somehow I never seem to be familiar with both canons at the same time, so most crossovers are sort of lost on me. I mean, you can read them as if the unfamiliar canon characters were just original characters, but you're losing half the charm there.

And when I conceive of a crossover, one half of it is usually a canon that no one knows. Or sometimes, just for variety, a canon I barely know, so that writing it would require a level of research that I'm too lazy to take on.

The only crossover-ish thing I ever wrote was Appetite, which took Snape out of Harry Potter and put him into the body of one of the characters in "Ratatouille," which is the sort of thing that seems like a good idea when you have a kid in the "Let's watch it again!" stage of media consumption.