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Multiverse!
My 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:
Home from the Sea: a Star Wars/Star Trek crossover which is a wonderful and heartbreaking portrait of Leia.
Pieces of the Dead: Farscape/Babylon 5, an encounter between Stark and G'Kar and Lyta on their travels. It answers a question in FS canon the show never did and offers fantastic characterisation for all three participants.
That Magical Sum We Were: Battlestar Galactica/Dr. Who - Laura Roslin and the Doctor. Lyrical and haunting.
Outside In: Alien/Dr. Who: the Ninth Doctor and Ripley - Ripley8, that is, from Alien: Resurrection. It's gut-wrenching and won't leave you for a good long while.
Catch a Tiger by the Tail : Farscape/Battlestar Galactica: Harvey and Head!Six, the encounter that had to happen, and is made of pure awesome.
Travel Light: Dr. Who/Farscape: my very favourite Doctor/Companion team, the Seventh Doctor and Ace, encounter Moya, Moya's Pilot and Stark. This, incidentally, is one of those crossovers who pull of the magical trick of working even if you don't know one of the canons in question - if you're, say, a DW only fan, then regard Stark & Co. as the guest star, about whom you find out exactly as much as a DW episode offers about its guest stars as well - and if you do know both canons, then you find it doubly layered.
Take care of yourself for me: Firefly/Babylon 5: River finds another woman who's been experiment on. The River pov is poetic and crazy and scary and intense, just as River should be, and I love it to bits.
Where the stars are strange: Star Wars/Farscape: Yoda and Rygel, and no, this is anything but crack fic. I love it.
There and back again: Stargate/Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Sam Carter goes through another wormhole and meets Jadzia Dax. It's that rarity, a story meshing plot, character exploration, and a completely believable pairing. Bonus points for a nod towards My Darling Quark and his not so secret Jadzia love.
Playing Poster Child: Farscape/Babylon 5: Zhaan and G'Kar are both characters who in their respective shows went through epiphanies. But this story presents them long before they reached this point, when they're still raw with anger, and it's fascinating and compelling to read.
Displaced Persons: Blake's 7/Farscape: Kerr Avon, meet Scorpius. It's terse, laconic, full of one liners as you expect with these characters, and the punchline is one of the best ever.
Crosses and Naughts: Firefly/Farscape: Mal Reynolds lost nearly everything (again); so has Aeryn Sun. Still the best Mal and the best Aeryn characterisation I saw in fanfic, imo as always.
God Save The King - a Battlestar Galactica / Star Trek: The Next Generation crossover in which the Cylons infiltrate the Federation and a Six model meets Jean-Luc Picard. Dark and excellent. No spoilers beyond the basic BSG set-up (which means,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
honorh, that you can read it.)
An End Has A Start - Martha and the Doctor encounter Mal and Zoe. And keep encountering them in this highly readable Dr. Who/Firefly tale. Spoilers for all things Firefly and Serenity, no spoilers for DW aside from Martha's existence.
Waltz - this one is marked as a Torchwood/Firefly crossover, but you could just as well call it a DW/Firefly one, as the only TW/DW character in it is Jack. It's a story that uses time travel and timelines for a very elegant and personal tale about Inara Serra and Jack through the ages, hers and his. And of course Jack has Companion training!
The Neon City - what is it about Mal Reynolds and Aeryn Sun that makes them so suited for shared adventure? As an earlier favourite of mine from 2004, this Firefly/Farscape crossover has Mal encountering and travelling with Aeryn (post-Peacekeeper Wars).
Ripples in the Dust - Dune/Farscape, on the other hand, is a new combination. The twins from Children of Dune, Leto and Ghanima, and John Crichton. Eerie, poetic and somewhat insane, as something featuring these characters should be.
In the end, we are one tree pulls off a truly tricky premise - Firefly/Roswell - with style. Without ever being in love with the show, I did like Roswell until the s2 finale, and this crossover reminds me why. Excellent characterisation of Maria, Michael, Isabel and Liz, and the same is true for the Firefly crew who unexpectedly find themselves finding Earth-that-was...
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:
Home from the Sea: a Star Wars/Star Trek crossover which is a wonderful and heartbreaking portrait of Leia.
Pieces of the Dead: Farscape/Babylon 5, an encounter between Stark and G'Kar and Lyta on their travels. It answers a question in FS canon the show never did and offers fantastic characterisation for all three participants.
That Magical Sum We Were: Battlestar Galactica/Dr. Who - Laura Roslin and the Doctor. Lyrical and haunting.
Outside In: Alien/Dr. Who: the Ninth Doctor and Ripley - Ripley8, that is, from Alien: Resurrection. It's gut-wrenching and won't leave you for a good long while.
Catch a Tiger by the Tail : Farscape/Battlestar Galactica: Harvey and Head!Six, the encounter that had to happen, and is made of pure awesome.
Travel Light: Dr. Who/Farscape: my very favourite Doctor/Companion team, the Seventh Doctor and Ace, encounter Moya, Moya's Pilot and Stark. This, incidentally, is one of those crossovers who pull of the magical trick of working even if you don't know one of the canons in question - if you're, say, a DW only fan, then regard Stark & Co. as the guest star, about whom you find out exactly as much as a DW episode offers about its guest stars as well - and if you do know both canons, then you find it doubly layered.
Take care of yourself for me: Firefly/Babylon 5: River finds another woman who's been experiment on. The River pov is poetic and crazy and scary and intense, just as River should be, and I love it to bits.
Where the stars are strange: Star Wars/Farscape: Yoda and Rygel, and no, this is anything but crack fic. I love it.
There and back again: Stargate/Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Sam Carter goes through another wormhole and meets Jadzia Dax. It's that rarity, a story meshing plot, character exploration, and a completely believable pairing. Bonus points for a nod towards My Darling Quark and his not so secret Jadzia love.
Playing Poster Child: Farscape/Babylon 5: Zhaan and G'Kar are both characters who in their respective shows went through epiphanies. But this story presents them long before they reached this point, when they're still raw with anger, and it's fascinating and compelling to read.
Displaced Persons: Blake's 7/Farscape: Kerr Avon, meet Scorpius. It's terse, laconic, full of one liners as you expect with these characters, and the punchline is one of the best ever.
Crosses and Naughts: Firefly/Farscape: Mal Reynolds lost nearly everything (again); so has Aeryn Sun. Still the best Mal and the best Aeryn characterisation I saw in fanfic, imo as always.
God Save The King - a Battlestar Galactica / Star Trek: The Next Generation crossover in which the Cylons infiltrate the Federation and a Six model meets Jean-Luc Picard. Dark and excellent. No spoilers beyond the basic BSG set-up (which means,
honorh, that you can read it.) An End Has A Start - Martha and the Doctor encounter Mal and Zoe. And keep encountering them in this highly readable Dr. Who/Firefly tale. Spoilers for all things Firefly and Serenity, no spoilers for DW aside from Martha's existence.
Waltz - this one is marked as a Torchwood/Firefly crossover, but you could just as well call it a DW/Firefly one, as the only TW/DW character in it is Jack. It's a story that uses time travel and timelines for a very elegant and personal tale about Inara Serra and Jack through the ages, hers and his. And of course Jack has Companion training!
The Neon City - what is it about Mal Reynolds and Aeryn Sun that makes them so suited for shared adventure? As an earlier favourite of mine from 2004, this Firefly/Farscape crossover has Mal encountering and travelling with Aeryn (post-Peacekeeper Wars).
Ripples in the Dust - Dune/Farscape, on the other hand, is a new combination. The twins from Children of Dune, Leto and Ghanima, and John Crichton. Eerie, poetic and somewhat insane, as something featuring these characters should be.
In the end, we are one tree pulls off a truly tricky premise - Firefly/Roswell - with style. Without ever being in love with the show, I did like Roswell until the s2 finale, and this crossover reminds me why. Excellent characterisation of Maria, Michael, Isabel and Liz, and the same is true for the Firefly crew who unexpectedly find themselves finding Earth-that-was...
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!