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In your own space, talk about an idea you wish you had the time / talent / energy to do.

I feel like this is a bit of a rehash of things I would like to see done - at least for me. I wish I had time and energy and skill to do the things I talked about here.

I also wish I had artistic talent that would let me create fanart I'd like to see. Since what I like is something more than stick figures, I don't. Haha!

Time is the biggest limiting factor of all. Trying to split time between adulting/job/family/life/fun/fandom is hard. I don't have enough and something always has to give. It's just the breaks of the game, I guess.

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.