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crossovering2015-05-25 09:27 am
weasleytook) wrote in crossovering2015-05-25 09:27 am
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Nominations Brainstorming Post
Nominations will begin in just one week, running from June 1 through June 12.
You can use this post to promote your small fandoms (the more people who nominate/offer/request, the more likely you are to have fic to read or write!), and to organize nominations for fandoms with multiple continuities. Or just talk about what fandoms you hope make it this year to see if you can drum up interest.
For a refresher, here's how nominations work:
When nominations begin, we will post more detailed instructions about how to nominate on AO3. Until then, feel free to check out the FAQ.
You can use this post to promote your small fandoms (the more people who nominate/offer/request, the more likely you are to have fic to read or write!), and to organize nominations for fandoms with multiple continuities. Or just talk about what fandoms you hope make it this year to see if you can drum up interest.
For a refresher, here's how nominations work:
- You can nominate up to eight fandoms.
- We will automatically approve the top 100 fandoms with the most nominations, though it is probable we will approve more than 100 fandoms. (Last year, we had 119 fandoms in the tagset, and will likely reach or surpass that number, based on participation.)
- Sign-ups will require a minimum of three fandoms that can be crossed with each other in each individual request, with six fandoms maximum. (You are required to make at least three requests, with five requests maximum.)
When nominations begin, we will post more detailed instructions about how to nominate on AO3. Until then, feel free to check out the FAQ.
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Here are some I'm interested in:
-Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey
-Black Jewels series - Anne Bishop
-Pokémon main video game series
-Hunger Games (I had fun with that last time)
-Revolutionary Girl Utena.
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For nomination:
Fringe
Orphan Black
The X-Files
Elementary
Person of Interest
Leverage
Lost Girl
iZombie
--all contemporary settings, nearly all with a SFF bent or characters who could easily handle a step into the paranormal. The potential crossovers are making me giggle, seriously.
(I haven't written iZombie fic yet but the possibilities here are dizzying. Liv nomming on a Cortexikid or fey or clone brain? CROSSOVER GOLD.)
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But after talking while I was on vacation with my co-mods and our friends, I need all the crossovers/fusions with The Island (the 2005 movie) I can possibly get. CLONES Y'ALL.
Also thinking of nominating the Terminator series, so good robot apocalypse fic will make me feel better about the new Terminator movie existing (and probably not being good???).
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But seriously, you just KNOW Nolan is one long weekend and a caffeine rush away from accidentally inventing Skynet.
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An excellent thought! (And for a lot of other contemporaries, too...lots of interesting people might be getting badges any day now).
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I'll probably also request various combinations of DC and Marvel TV fandoms.
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And on the DC fandom side - Arrow and The Flash are also on my list.
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Forever (TV)
The Flash (TV 2014)
Agent Carter (TV)
Daredevil (TV)
Supergirl (TV 2015)
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Wolfblood
The Tomorrow People (TV 2013)
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Leverage
Sons of Anarchy
Friday NIght Lights
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Orange is the New Black
The Killing (US)
The Americans (although I guess timing might be tricky)
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*Arrow
Being Human (US)
*Highlander: the Series
Leverage
The Listener
*Psych
Spider-Man
Teen Wolf
*The Tomorrow People (2013)
I'm up for all of those again this year, though the ones with asterisks are ones I'm really keen on. This year I'd also add:
The Flash
Forever
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Forever
CSI
Law & Order
Rent
How to Get Away with Murder
Arrow
The Flash
and my super long shot of If/Then (Broadway musical)
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Kushiel's Legacy
Black Jewels
The Dark Tower
The Stand
basically p. much any Stephen King books *sobs at tiny fandoms*
Tomorrow, When the War Began
The Raven Cycle (although it's getting bigger)
Wheel of Time maybe? I'm rereading it rn, so.
October Daye
InCryptid
Newsflesh
Indexing
(look just go look up Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant's bibliography, I'll wait)
Old Kingdom
Merry Gentry
Bigger fandoms:
The Big Bang Theory
Community
Parks and Rec
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Orange is the New Black
Jupiter Ascending (am tipping this as one of the breakout fandoms for Yuletide just btw)
The Hunger Games
Red Dwarf
Orphan Black
Twin Peaks
Epic huge fandoms:
MCU
X-Files
probably half the bigger fandoms belong here idek
I should stop now before I list every fandom I've ever been in. Also because the cats are having a three-way standoff in the hallway D:
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All my fandoms are small (or moderately sized at best) and literary, so you can guess how much I have to discuss with other people in fannish venues. Well, anyway, said fandoms are as follows:
The Cthulhu Mythos: The official tag for this body of work on AO3 is Cthulhu Mythos - H. P. Lovecraft, which is not perfect but is what most people generally call this cycle of stories by 1920s and '30s horror/fantasy/science fiction author H. P. Lovecraft. The tag isn't perfect because Lovecraft himself never called his stories by that title; the name was invented by his correspondent August Derleth. The "Cthulhu Mythos" refers to the concept of a pantheon of alien gods (scientific or supernatural, they're functionally divine) who are indifferent to mankind at best and malevolent toward mankind at worst. In theory, they're the former; the actions of their cultists suggest the latter. You can think of the religion that honors them as Gothic Theosophy if you want. Which stories are "Mythos" and which ones are not is a long-lasting matter of debate, but "The Call of Cthulhu" is the one for which the mythology is named. "At the Mountains of Madness," "The Shadow out of Time," and "The Shadow over Innsmouth" are also definitely part of the cycle.
The stories aren't to everyone's taste, for a number of reasons—the prose is denser than most SF fans are probably used to reading, Lovecraft had some deep-seated prejudices (mostly ethnic) that showed up in much of his work, there's little action and less dialogue—but they've been some of my favorite fiction since I was fourteen. Whenever I fall out of love with a fandom, I come back to Lovecraft. You might say it's my port in a storm. What I treasure most about these stories is how different they are not only from other fantasy and SF but from the mainstream of American society. Lovecraft presents a genuinely nihilistic universe (see "The Silver Key"), which makes his material challenging in a way that most works popular in fandom aren't, and what values are expressed therein have nothing to do with home ownership, procreation, erotic love, or little day-to-day pleasantries.
Hyperborean Cycle: Speaking of which, one of Lovecraft's greatest pleasures in life was composing letters to and exchanging ideas with fellow writers. Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborea stories were based on the ancient Greek myth of a lost land in the far north, but he was heavily influenced by his pen pal Lovecraft as well. Aesthetically speaking, the Hyperborean Cycle is some of the weirdest fiction you could ever read. Set in a jungle country about to be destroyed by a cataclysmic blizzard, these tales tell of thieves who raid a hidden temple with disastrous results, of sacred prostitutes who wear girdles made of bronze and steel, of a ghostly goddess whom a man follows to the ends of the Earth, of a cavern filled with monstrous, animal-like gods who drink their human sacrifices. The whole tenor of these pieces is bizarre, intoxicating, and gently sadistic.
Good Omens: If you're at all familiar with this book, you'll know it's completely unlike the previous two items listed. If you're not, then just know that it's a comedic novel about Armageddon written for atheists and agnostics who come originally from Christian backgrounds. The cast is an ensemble, consisting of an angel and demon who are responsible for free will, a modern-day witch who has the world's only one hundred percent accurate book of prophecies, the Antichrist and his three best friends (who are all eleven years old), a dead-serious (comically so) witch-hunter and his average-Joe henchman, the Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse (who now ride motorcycles), and various assorted humans, demons, and other strange creatures. All in all, it's quite a ride. At one point, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett considered writing a sequel to it, but fortunately, it never materialized, making Good Omens one of the finest stand-alone novels in all fantasy and/or science fiction.
The fanfic for this book focuses largely on slash between the aforementioned angel and demon, which is only to be expected, because the novel makes a running gag out of the two of them being mistaken for a couple, and the angel comes across as gay to most people. (The narration claims that angels are sexless "unless they really want to make an effort," which is Biblically accurate, but it seems pretty obvious that the invocation of that bit of Christian theology is a fig leaf in the novel. At the same time, I am bothered by fanfic that emphasizes male identification as highly important to the angel or the demon.) Like most people in the fandom, I'm quite fond of the pairing, but there's even more to recommend the book: namely, the characterization itself, the witty style, the philosophy that many readers apparently find reassuring.
The Wind in the Willows: This book is one of those stories that people think are fairy tales but aren't. You can certainly see why people think it's a fairy tale, though; the book catalogs and describes most of life's enjoyable aspects between its two covers. This somewhat episodic novel is variously about the homespun, laid-back life of Mole, Water Rat, and their gruff, woodland-dwelling friend Badger and the madcap adventures of Toad, a rich amphibian with bipolar disorder. Mole and Rat have something of a romantic (though non-sexual) bond—they go on a picnic together, and they know it's meant to be—while looking up to the authoritative Badger, whereas Toad is his own impulsive, quixotic person. He's a mess, and his friends' attempts to help him are...questionable, to say the least.
If you take one lesson from The Wind in the Willows, it's that simple pleasures are to be revered. Friendship, the glow of the hearth, caroling at Christmastime, riverboat rides, good food, story time, poetry, and worshiping the god of nature are the only things, so to speak.
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Big Bang Theory
Castle
Stargate Atlantis
2 Broke Girls
Boston Legal
and what if...
Allstate Insurance and Battle Creek (Russ and Mayhem are twin brothers?)
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?! Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
?! Winx Club
?! Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types
?! Persona 4
?! プリキュア | PreCure | Pretty Cure Series
?! Final Fantasy X & Final Fantasy X-2
?! Final Fantasy XIII Series
?! Hetalia: Axis Powers
I would be glad to change things to help people get other non-western fandoms in though.
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- Chronicles of Narnia (because if your canon's modern and reality-based, someone's bound to be excited about finding themselves there)
- DC Animated Universe (because your MCU favorites could use some new friends and foes, right?)
- Discworld (because even if you're not inspired by any of the myriad other characters and settings, Death is a handy guy to have on hand for crossovers)
- Dragon Age (because wouldn't it be fun to see your favorite character as the Warden or Inquisitor, or just challenge them to a drinking contest with Hawke?)
- Ender's Game (because Orson Scott Card may have Issues, but Battle School is an awesome idea)
- Harry Potter (because...yeah, I don't think you need me to sell you on this one)
- His Dark Materials (because in addition to daemons, you've got a whole steampunk universe to play with, and the many-worlds concept is built right into the premise)
- Vorkosigan Saga (because space battles and intrigue, plus the Vor slot really well into fantasy settings)
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