Snowflake Challenge - Day 2

[spatz]

Day 2: Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create.

I just want to say that, as someone with almost 3500 bookmarks on Pinboard, asking me to freeform rec a small number, much less *three*, is just plain mean. :P

Let's go with the theme of "crossovers that should not work as well as they do, and yet are awesome" since I got tassosss talking about the subject the other day. Also, I love crossovers and have an enormous stash of them saved - uh, jesus, almost 10% of my bookmarks, now that I look at the numbers.


Mission: Dinosaur Adventures by pollyrepeat
The Losers/Jurassic Park
In which Lex Murphy is hacker friends with Jensen, and calls in a favor to have the Losers rescue her idiot brother. Again. Or: Losers vs dinosaurs with bonus Cougar/Jensen, everything is hilarious. You can thank Yuletide for this particularly WTF crossover. Thanks, Yuletide!

The Shell Game by taz
The Odyssey/Highlander
In which Methos washes ashore on Ithaca, and teaches teenaged Odysseus a few tricks. This is one of those crossovers that you would never think of offhand but as soon as you read the summary you're like OMG OF COURSE THAT'S PERFECT. (originally on LJ: http://tazlet.livejournal.com/79016.html)

Devil Took the Soldier Boy by copperbadge
Good Omens/Lord Peter Wimsey
Aziraphael and Crowley made a bet about Peter Wimsey during the war, but Crowley should have known better. God, I love this fic. I think it might be the first thing of Sam's that I ever read?

One Thing by Sineala
The Eagle/Vorkosigan Saga
The only thing worse than being the son of the Butcher of Komarr is being the son of his political officer. A fusion, technically, rather than a crossover, and emotionally brutal. I love it.

The Zombie Love Bug Concatenation by musesfool
Supernatural/The Middleman

"Yeah, okay, what are the odds of that?"
"That two off-duty FBI agents would just happen to converge in the sporting goods section of Sears during an unexpected zombie outbreak?" She raises her weird gun. "Duck!" Dean ducks and she takes off the head of a zombie behind him.

Wendy and Dean vs zombies in the mall. Sheer genius in its simplicity.



A Perfectly Human Monster by philomytha
Rivers of London/Endeavour
The 'opera phantom' killer is aiming for a bigger target than Morse.
Okay, this one's not very off the wall - two British procedurals, one with magic - but it works SO well that I had to include it.

Relatives and Relativity by yahtzee
Doctor Who/Sense & Sensibility
The Dashwood sisters meet the Ninth Doctor immediately after the Time War. Insane idea, awesome execution, with a lovely sense of wonder. I even love the *title* to a ridiculous degree.

Lions and Tigers by Starlingthefool
Inception/Calvin & Hobbes
In which Eames is who Calvin grew up to be, Hobbes is still running around in his subconscious, and Arthur attempts to have a not-relationship with Eames. (there's also a sequel, not on AO3: https://ae-match.livejournal.com/133332.html)



The Boy Who Spoke With Ghosts by avocadolove
Inception/The Sixth Sense
As a counterpoint to Lions and Tigers, have a crossover where Arthur is who Cole Sear grew up to be. Wonderfully plotty in a way that uses both the ghosts from TSS and the dreamsharing from Inception, plus a great Eames backstory.

The Incident of the Fellow in the Fellows' Garden by azdak
Lord Peter Wimsey/The Man From UNCLE (TV)
In 1955, Lord Peter is invited to Cambridge to investigate a suicide that might be murder, and Illya Kuryakin is the prime suspect. Yessssss.

The Scarab by bktheirregular
Buffy/SG-1
When a Goa'uld tries to take over the Hellmouth, SG-1 teams up with the Scoobies to stop another apocalypse. Well plotted, with justice done to all sides of the crossover and a healthy dose of banter.



Love Is All You Need to Destroy Your Enemies by shadydave
Dresden Files/Welcome to Night Vale

There are a few things that Carlos may have neglected to tell Cecil. Like his last name. Or how he hasn’t actually dated anyone since his junior year of high school. Or that he’s a wizard of the White Council and the regional commander of Wardens in the western United States and not, in fact, a scientist. You know. Minor details.

Takes Cecil's deeply unreliable narrator status and runs with it in a charming and plotty fashion, with time travel and true love and science! For extra bonus points, it's actually canon compliant through Old Oak Doors for WTNV and iirc Cold Days for DF. There's a stretch in the middle where the pacing bogs down a bit, but I feel like that's pardonable in a 220K epic.

When Hellmouths Collide by LTLJ and researchgrrl
Buffy/Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

Buffy, Xander, Giles and Willow are accidentally sent through a dimensional doorway to a strange new world, where they run into our favorite pair of mythological heroes, Hercules and Iolaus. Together, they uncover Ethan Rayne's terrible plot against this world.

One of my all-time favorite crossovers, this has everything and does it all well: plot, romance, worldbuilding, humor, friendship, action, angst, character development that still fits into the respective canons, a large and excellent ensemble, and zombies! All while fitting two universes together that *really* shouldn't work in the same story, given their respective mythologies, but it's all perfect. ♥xinfinity

Comments

[toujours_nigel]

I'm eleven chapters deep into the Wimsey/MUNCLE crossover, so thank you for this list.

[spatz]

Yay, thanks! Despite being such a distinctive style set in such a fixed period, the Wimsey books are oddly well suited to crossovers - or perhaps I've just collected a lot of them. :)

[spikedluv]

Bookmarking The Losers/Jurassic Park fic, thank you!

[spatz]

You're welcome! It's one of my favorite examples to trot out when trying to explain the joys of Yuletide to someone.

[kiki_eng]

The ones you've recced that I recognised, I loved, and now I have so many more things in my tabs that sound awesome. Thank you.

[spatz]

Thanks! Hahaha, sorry not sorry - if it makes you feel any better, I've got a fair number open to re-read still from making this post. The dangers of a well-organized bookmarking system is that you *can* always find that story to re-read...