A Day In The Life

Star Trek Meme: Day 27

2015-07-02T04:25:21Z

Day 27 - What would you cross over with Star Trek?

Somewhat late, because I was away from any internet yesterday until late at night, but here we go. Well, considering I've already written the crossovers in question, obviously I would cross over Star Trek with Torchwood and Doctor Who, just Doctor Who, Babylon 5, Farscape, Battlestar Galactica and Star Wars.

The advantage with Doctor Who especially is that between all the various Doctors and companions on the one hand, and all the various incarnations of Star Trek on the other, you have such a rich, infinite variety of combinations for encounters to choose from, so the two DW crossovers certainly won't be my last. It's also the crossover that's currently do-able on screen, technically (if the BBC and whoever owns Paramount now - Sony? - could ever come to licence terms), and I dimly seem to recall that there was a fannish rumor in the RTD era that a plan for such a crossover existed.

But an on screen encounter would probably not include the character interaction I'm interested in, so never mind that, and let's stay hypothetical and fanfiction minded entirely. Since time travel exists in the Star Trek universe, you can even cross it over with historical fandoms. (Fandoms with immortal characters can bring these into the ST future, of course.) So basically there's no fandom I wouldn't cross over with Star Trek. Infinite variety in infinite combinations, after all.

( The other days )

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Crossover Fanfiction Rec

2014-02-12T20:59:14Z

So, I've stopped watching Downton Abbey two seasons ago. But as soon as I saw this crossovery, I knew I'd read it, and did with ever greater joy, for verily, idea and execution are golden.

Tony Stark Meets an Extremely Unimpressed Time Traveler, or, Thomas Barrow Makes a Surprisingly Good 21st Century Butler (87671 words) by Alex51324
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Downton Abbey, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Thomas Barrow/Tony Stark
Characters: Thomas Barrow, Tony Stark, Steve Rogers
Additional Tags: Time Travel, Butlers, Crossover
Summary:

In which Tony Stark ditches a boring party, makes an addition to the household staff, throws a much better party, and tries not to sexually harass his new butler.

Or,In which Thomas Barrow has a little trouble getting home from the pub, is generally unimpressed with many aspects of the 21st century, never thought of himself as a conservative dresser before, and may or may not be falling in lust with his new employer.

tl:dr: Thanks to time travel, Thomas Barrow becomes the Avengers' butler.

The one thing you have to handwave is that Downton Abbey is actually referenced in Iron Man III, complete with clips (Tony's chauffeur/bodyguard Happy Hogan is a fan), but otherwise, this is perfect. Not least because it uses the ensemble well, not just the two main characters, and has everyone in character. It's funny and touching in turns and the dialogue is golden.

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Welcome to my mind

2012-03-06T14:45:09Z

I'd love to review the latest episode of Being Human, but due to CIRCUMSTANCES I haven't been able to watch more than ca. 30 minutes of it. Which was very frustrating to me, especially since I liked the thirty minutes in question. Am still hoping for this to change.

Meanwhle, I'm going through that selfish stage of fannish desire triggered by various upcoming ficathons where I wish the new-to-me shows I discovered in the last half year were more popular and would hence get more fanfic, as opposed to the shows and films I'm just not keen on (or not very), and which have a huge, thriving and writing fandom. Which is to say: I wish people were writing Homeland and Breaking Bad stories in the same amount as Sherlock and Inception fanfic gets written. Also I wonder about insane crossover possibilities, such as:

Homeland/Fringe: an uneasy, tense yet v. v. competent team up for a case between Carrie and Olivia would be awesome. You have CIA versus FBI hostility, and shared common ground of being regarded as an obsessive crazy by your hometeam. Though Olivia after years with Walter Bishop would be able to spot that Carrie actually is both, shall we say, unbalanced, and genius level gifted.

Breaking Bad/Fringe: Walter W. and Walter B. would get on disturbingly well until Walt finds out Walter loves his LSD and his joints by catching Walter in the act with Jesse, which he would find scientifically irresponsible and unprofessional. Meanwhile, Walter would figure out Walt actually reminds him of Walternate.

Breaking Bad/House: I stopped watching House mid s7, so it would have to take place before that, but: through plotty circumstance, Wilson ends up as Walter White's new oncologist. It doesn't take House long to deduce just how Walt earns his living these days, but the idea is so bizarre Wilson refuses to buy it. Meanwhile, Jesse and House's team (any combination of same) commiserate on the trial of working a jerkish genius until Jesse manages to offend Cameron/Thirteen/Martha and they decide Walt's a saint for putting up with him. At which point various druglords and/or their assassins show up afraid that Walt blabbed under the treatment to his oncologist and determined to kill Wilson.

Homeland/Torchwood: post season 1 Brody and Miracle Day era Jack have a one night "I'm still alive/I could die now!" stand after meeting in a bar. Also the MD events confirm Brody in everything he believes. Meanwhile, Esther recruits Carrie.

Breaking Bad/The Good Wife: Saul as the opposing lawyer in Lockhart & Gardner's case of the week, squaring off against Alicia & Diane both. Meanwhile, Kalinda investigates and only the fact Hank is a bit of a racist ass when meeting her prevents the pooling of resources and discovery of the truth about Walt right then and there.

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Magical Mystery Tours (Crack Fic, Crossovers)

2011-10-23T16:33:11Z

Title: Magical Mystery Tours

Disclaimer: Harry Potter owned by J.K. Rowling, Buffy the Vampire Slayer owned by Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemies, X-Men owned by Marvel. Beatles owned by themselves, and certainly unrelated to their fictional counterparts here.

Summary: Three fictional universes the Beatles didn't end up in, or: how they fared at Hogwarts, who the Vampire Slayer of the 60s and 70s and her Watcher were and why Timothy Leary was so sure the Beatles were mutants.

Rating: PG 13 solely for swearing, discussed drug use and discussed adultery.

Characters: Albus Dumbledore, Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Maureen Starkey, Chris O'Dell and Brian Epstein.

Spoilers: Some for the Harry Potter books (and Dumbledore's backstory), basic ones for X-Men: First Class (the movie, not the comic), and only premise ones for Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Author's note: Started out as a meme reply and got away from me. Considering the sheer silliness and gen-ness of the premise, I think even utter objecters to RPF are safe to read it.

( Harry Potter )

( Buffy the Vampire Slayer )

( X-Men: First Class )

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Carry That Weight (X-Men/Alias Crossover)

2011-09-30T04:39:48Z

Title: Carry That Weight

Author: selenak

Summary: "Senator Kelly" didn't fool everyone. P.I. Jessica Jones investigates Mystique.

Recipient: aphrodite_mine

Request used: Alias (Comic), put Jessica Jones in the X-Men universe. No specific pairings, any acceptable or gen.

Rating: PG 13

Spoilers: For the entire run of Alias by Brian Bendis, specifically Jessica’s backstory, and for X-Men (by implication also for X2 aka X-Men: United).

Disclaimer: Characters and situations owned by Marvel.

A/N: Thanks to kathyh and likeadeuce for a great beta.

( Read more.... )

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Crossover dialogues, II

2011-08-19T06:26:55Z

For leviathan0999:

( Hermione Granger (Harry Potter) and Sarah Jane Smith (Doctor Who/The Sarah Jane Adventures) )

For daybreak777:

( Morgaine (tv version of The Mists of Avalon) and Alicia Florrick (The Good Wife) )

For lakrids404:

( Debra Morgan (Dexter) and Xander (BTVS) )

For gehayi:

( Darla (BTVS and AtS) and Servalan (Blake's 7) )

For kathyh:

( Darla (BTVS and AtS) and Morgana (Merlin) )

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Crossover dialogue meme

2011-08-17T06:53:06Z

From daybreak77:

You, the reading list, give me two characters you know I'm familiar with from different fandoms, and I'll give you a dialogue between them, without justifying how the crossover would work, how their worlds clashed, or how they could even meet each other -- just a silly crossover conversation for fun with no backstory.

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Your smile for the week (it was mine)

2010-11-25T10:42:40Z

Idle thought of the day: The recent anniversary release of Band on the Run reminded me that one of the people on the cover is Christopher Lee. Whom Paul McCartney knew since the Beatles were shooting A Hard Day's Night while Lee was simultanously shooting one of the Dracula movies elsewhere on the set.... Methinks Brian Epstein when wondering about the subject for a third Beatles movie missed out on a Dracula/Beatles crossover a la Abbot & Costello meet Frankenstein. Okay, not really; Brian had better taste than yours truly and wouldn't have gone for it. But still, the thought will not go away. One of the later Hammer films was an ill-advised attempt to bring Dracula into the Swinging London era anyway, only they tried to play it straight, which you really, really can't with such a combination. And come on, it's not like "Indian cult pursues Ringo because he's wearing their holy ring" is less silly a plot than "the Beatles on their latest tour, in need of overnight quarters, end up on a castle in Transsylvania".

The glower contest between George and Christopher Lee alone would have made it worth it.

Since I am in a silly crossover mood, have some silly crossover vids.

( Lots of superheroes, Stephen Colbert, Conan O'Brien and Paul McCartney await )

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