SPN dominates SGA crossover. News at 11.
Apr. 21st, 2010 08:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icarusIt turns out SPN is dominating my SGA/SPN crossover.
Drat. I was trying to make the SPN accessible to the SGA audience.
But Skinscript has useful suggestions to work SGA back into the mix. Sigh. 1,000-word Help Haiti ficlet now approaching 10,000 words....
In the meantime while I scratch my head, I'm writing my outline of the Pern/SGA fusion to Mad Maudlin in chat (while she chews over her Star Trek/SGA fusion).
Wait. Wasn't there a time I hated crossovers? I'm sure I did a post or comment where I called them "a pointless muddying of canon." Said the same about AUs.
What happens to us in fandom that makes our tastes more catholic?
Is it that we come to fanfic looking for more of what we wanted from the book/show/comic/whatever and then discover fandom offers more? Do we become increasingly adventurous as writers and can't resist the challenge of revisualizing canon? Or is it our friends' fault, and the fault of challenges, as we're asked for stories we'd never seek out? Or perhaps we read that one crossover that does it so well, we want to try it.
I blame SGA. The fandom has been so wacky from the get-go that I'm writing (and reading) oddball plots I'd never considered in HP or (heavens) Lord of the Rings (that Harry Potter/James Bond fusion excepted).
Drat. I was trying to make the SPN accessible to the SGA audience.
But Skinscript has useful suggestions to work SGA back into the mix. Sigh. 1,000-word Help Haiti ficlet now approaching 10,000 words....
In the meantime while I scratch my head, I'm writing my outline of the Pern/SGA fusion to Mad Maudlin in chat (while she chews over her Star Trek/SGA fusion).
Wait. Wasn't there a time I hated crossovers? I'm sure I did a post or comment where I called them "a pointless muddying of canon." Said the same about AUs.
What happens to us in fandom that makes our tastes more catholic?
Is it that we come to fanfic looking for more of what we wanted from the book/show/comic/whatever and then discover fandom offers more? Do we become increasingly adventurous as writers and can't resist the challenge of revisualizing canon? Or is it our friends' fault, and the fault of challenges, as we're asked for stories we'd never seek out? Or perhaps we read that one crossover that does it so well, we want to try it.
I blame SGA. The fandom has been so wacky from the get-go that I'm writing (and reading) oddball plots I'd never considered in HP or (heavens) Lord of the Rings (that Harry Potter/James Bond fusion excepted).
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Date: 2010-04-22 07:24 pm (UTC)(I can't help it, I giggle over weir/weyr every time I think of this fusion. Elizabeth Weir, Weyrwoman)
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Date: 2010-04-23 01:11 pm (UTC)And therefore Rodney's mom.
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Date: 2010-04-23 07:52 pm (UTC)Told in first person, present tense.
ROFL
Sorry, it just tickles me, whether she's Rodney's mother or not. (Which, vague eeeew reaction to begin with, but that's more my Elizabeth reaction than anything.)
I don't think she'd be very good at it, but that might be the point if this is interrognum Pern, with the decadant and badly run weyr.
Gotta read your outline next.