December Daily: crossovers

[resonant]

mific - "what about crossovers? Have you written any?"

Only two: Interdepartmental Cooperation, a gen story in which Fraser and Ray encounter Chrestomanci (it's been so long since I read the books that I only vaguely remember the canon underpinnings) and Appetite, a thoroughly non-gen story in which Snape dies in the Shrieking Shack and wakes up in the cast of the movie Ratatouille.

I enjoyed writing both of them, but I think maybe crossovers work better for me in gen stories, where they don't seem to be drawing attention away from the relationship.

In my bookmarks I have two beloved gen crossovers, melannen's Rivers of Ankh-Morpork (Rivers of London/Discworld) and st_aurafina's Very Special Guest Star (Muppets/Indiana Jones).





Specify a date if you want; otherwise I'll just answer them whenever.

This year, in addition to the usual kinds of questions, I'd also love to get storyish prompts. Storyish meaning you never know what you might get: two sentences of a story, or a description of a story that will never exist, or a love song about how much I like that trope, or a rant about my pet peeve about that trope, or I know nothing about that canon except what I see on social media and here's what I think it might be about, or Ten Reasons Why I Love/Hate/Am Indifferent To that character, canon, or trope, or ...

As always, I'd love to hear about it if you're doing the meme too.


11. mergatrude - "favourite bit of feedback you've received on a fic?"
12. marginaliana - ghost stories
13. runpunkrun - "a new thing you tried "
14. isis and clevermanka and trobadora - longhand?!
15. china_shop - Guardian as described by someone who only knows it via social media
16. kiezh following up with - "What have you heard about MDZS/The Untamed, and what did you think of what you heard?"
17. ride4ever's birthday prompt - "Storyish prompt: for any due South fic you've written, write a prequel or sequel snippet for the fic or meta about the before-or-after that can be imagined about the fic's story arc."
18. mific - "the genderswap trope where a character's gender is changed. Yes? No? Maybe?"
19. runpunkrun - "fake dating: yes or no"
20. minoanmiss - "One of my favorite tropes is Then Let Me Be Evil. What do you think of it/have you explored it/so on and so forth?"
21. hypertwink - "21. Now that you've come back, is there a fandom that you want to dip your toe into? (Follow up: Are you apprehensive/excited about it?)"
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24. runpunkrun - "John and Rodney in 2020"
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26. ride4ever - "for any dS or C6D pairing that you ship, how that ship is doing in 2020."
27. reginagiraffe - "Hermione/Harry/Ron from Bed and Board in 2020"
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Comments

[mific]

I don't know Chrestomanci at al, but I enjoyed the dS crossover!

[resonant]

Thanks! I should go back and re-read those books; they were fun.