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bewize ([personal profile] bewize) wrote2022-01-10 08:09 am

Snowflake Challenge Day 3

In your own space, put some favorite characters into an AU, fuse some favorite canons together, talk about your favorite AU/fusion tropes, or tell us why AU/fusions aren’t your cup of tea.

This question threw me for a loop as I tried to differentiate between fusions and crossovers. I don't know that I have a good working definition for each, but... crossovers were my jam at one point. I still love one that's really well done.

Generally speaking, I don't read a ton of straight up Alternate Universe fics. I don't go for the coffee-shop/college/cooking show thing that I see a lot of right now. I don't dislike them, but they don't usually grab my interest.

I *adore* a good "divergent universe" fic where Character A makes a different decision and this is what happens.

I don't read a ton of gender-swap. I will read slash, het, ace, etc. without even a pause and it doesn't pull me from the canon, so to speak. If I have a strong pairing bias, I may skip stories that pair one of those characters with someone else, but I don't think that's usually a problem.

All this said, I've written a ton of crossovers.

I'll link to some of them that are on AO3, but this isn't even close to my list or even my favorites.

Lessee:

Spy Smut - An Offer of Friendship - Burn Notice/James Bond. This was written for a porn battle and kicked off my interest in this particular pairing. I have a much longer story that I've not moved to AO3 yet, but will eventually!

This one is more a fusion, I think. Darwin Awards (The One In a Million Remix). I wrote this one recently and it's very much a "knock the rust off piece" for me, but it was fun! X-men: Alternate Universe Movies/Jurassic World Trilogy.

I'm kind of appalled that's all I have on AO3. I have a lot left to move, clearly.

I wrote a lot of Psych/X-men, too. I also have a Big Bang fic that was Supernatural/X-men Movieverse (loosely). And I wrote an X-men Noir AU that I really thought was on AO3 and isn't. So... I guess I'd better buckle up and get busy moving stuff over.
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[personal profile] perspi 2022-01-10 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I've seen a lot during this challenge of folks doing their own definitions and delineations between crossovers and fusions and AUs, it's been fascinating! And we (fandom in general) would definitely love to have MOAR STUFF on AO3. :D