Can Jill come out to play? Also, an idea.

[brighteyedjill]

My startrekbigbang is done!I added 40,000 words to it in 4 days, but it's done! As a testament to my terrible planning skills (or perhaps my overly-optimistic sense of ambition), my posting date was less than a week after I finished a big RL project that left me physically and emotionally exhausted. But now, I feel like I can breathe again!

In celebration, I have been gorging myself on fanfic. Om nom nom! If I missed anything awesome in the past uh... month, link me!

As often happens when my mind should be busy with other things, it thinks up entirely unrelated things that it wants me to do right now. Silly brain. But one of its suggestions started to sound interesting, so now I run it by you, dear f-list.

Do you like mashing up your television?

I'm envisioning a challenge, or maybe an exchange, called "Same Song, Different 'Verse." You build a fusion universe by bringing elements of a different movie/episode of television to another fandom. So it's kind of like the "reel" challenges (e.g. reel_spn), only not.


For example, I like Supernatural, and I like Star Trek. I could to do the Supernatural episode "Mystery Spot." I can either fuse the Trek characters into the Supernatural 'verse (Kirk is a desperate Sam, McCoy is "what the hell are you talking about time loop?" Dean, and Spock is obviously Castiel), or implant the plot of "Mystery Spot" into the Trek verse (they're stuck in some worm hole in which a powerful alien consciousness is causing Kirk to experience McCoy's death over and over in an attempt to inure him to its inevitability).


I'm thinking that there would probably be a prompting period, then a claiming period... Because there are just so many possible permutations of fandoms that coordinating an exchange would be crazy. Besides, I could never hope to match aurilly's mad matching skills on xover_exchange. Probably at least one of the fandoms in a prompt would have to be a television show, so that we'd be doing episode-sized plots rather than movie-sized plots. Or would it be better to limit it to television fandoms only?


Does that sound like a terrible idea? What you participate in such a challenge, if it existed?

Comments

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Ooo, crossovers of particular forms! This is fascinating sounding, but I can't promise anything.

[sarkywoman.livejournal.com]

I doubt I'd have the time to participate, but it sounds like a cool idea.

[jaune-chat.livejournal.com]

I'm certainly interested. Crossovers and fusions make me happy in my happy place!

[brighteyed-jill.livejournal.com]

Me too! When's a good time for challenges? January? I know everyone's working on holiday exchange fic right now...

[jaune-chat.livejournal.com]

Jaunary might be a good time, though there should be some discussion and spamming of the comms in the interim to drum up further interest and gather ideas. Because obviously we don't want to do something exactly like the xover_exchange, so we want to give plenty of examples of the kind of madness we're looking for. Your example of a Star Trek Mystery Spot is a good one. My own Big Damn Heroes is another, if I may toot my own horn.

So the general premise would be to pick a plot/particular episode from one fandom and use the world/characters from another fandom in that scenario, yes?

Man, we're going to need some killer manips... :-O