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Mar. 7th, 2008
Multiverse!
Mar. 7th, 2008 11:39 amMy favourite ficathon has opened its doors again: sign up for Multiverse Crossover Ficathon!
For new readers of my journal, or for those who have discovered new sci fi fandoms since last year and might want to give it a try, what is the Multiverse ficathon? One devoted to sci-fi crossovers. You can find the results of past years here:
Multiverse 2004
Multiverse 2005
Multiverse 2006
Multiverse 2007
You can request just about everything, gen, slash, het; whether you want Martha Jones to meet Laura Roslin or have Spock encounter the Babylon 5 universe, go for it! As proof of how good this ficathon can be, here are some of my favourite stories from the last years as a reader:
( For example... )
As a writer, I've always loved the challenge of being given prompts that would never have occured to me to begin with, and look for ways to make those encounters of characters and universe work in a way that highlighted traits or themes of either or both. Which could be done in a fun way (one year, someone gave me a Quark (DS9)/Chiana (Farscape) prompt), or in an angsty way (last year's Torchwood/Dr. Who/DS9 crossover comes to mind); sometimes the stories practically wrote themselves, as with a Bester (B5)-meets-Garak (DS9) encounter, and sometimes I had to figure out an angle first (as when the prompt was William Adama in the Star Trek: The Next Generation universe; I didn't want it to be "Adama visits the Enterprise, thinks "Gods, you people have it easy", leaves", but once I had hit on the idea of letting him encounter Lwaxana Troi, I knew I had my story), but they were always rewarding to write. You'd enjoy it, too. Go sign up!
For new readers of my journal, or for those who have discovered new sci fi fandoms since last year and might want to give it a try, what is the Multiverse ficathon? One devoted to sci-fi crossovers. You can find the results of past years here:
Multiverse 2004
Multiverse 2005
Multiverse 2006
Multiverse 2007
You can request just about everything, gen, slash, het; whether you want Martha Jones to meet Laura Roslin or have Spock encounter the Babylon 5 universe, go for it! As proof of how good this ficathon can be, here are some of my favourite stories from the last years as a reader:
( For example... )
As a writer, I've always loved the challenge of being given prompts that would never have occured to me to begin with, and look for ways to make those encounters of characters and universe work in a way that highlighted traits or themes of either or both. Which could be done in a fun way (one year, someone gave me a Quark (DS9)/Chiana (Farscape) prompt), or in an angsty way (last year's Torchwood/Dr. Who/DS9 crossover comes to mind); sometimes the stories practically wrote themselves, as with a Bester (B5)-meets-Garak (DS9) encounter, and sometimes I had to figure out an angle first (as when the prompt was William Adama in the Star Trek: The Next Generation universe; I didn't want it to be "Adama visits the Enterprise, thinks "Gods, you people have it easy", leaves", but once I had hit on the idea of letting him encounter Lwaxana Troi, I knew I had my story), but they were always rewarding to write. You'd enjoy it, too. Go sign up!
