for those of you who enjoy crossovers, fusions, and setting change AUs, what it is that appeals about them? I always love to hear about other people's different approaches to fandom, and different tastes when it comes to fanworks.
I used to be part of this community on lj where we all wrote short fics (usually 300-1000 words, sometimes actual drabbles, sometimes slightly longer) based on monthly prompts and it was specifically for crossovers. I had a lot of fun in that comm because it was a small group of us (about 20 or so?) and we watched mostly the same shows (so, like, the Buffyverse, Friday Night Lights, Veronica Mars, The Black Donnellys, Supernatural, even Gossip Girl--the stuff that was airing at the time or had just aired) and it was just interesting to see if you could create a believable little ficlet involving two characters who didn't know each other. (I actually have several of my favorites of these up on AO3 to this day.) But that was more about the fandom experience of doing it with friends than it was about the inherent appeal of crossovers. I never would have written those fics on my own.
Other than that, most crossover thoughts I'm into are either not actually crossovers since they're set in the same loose universe (for instance, I have a lot of feelings about how Buffy and Gunn should have interacted) or are set in canons that have the same ~vibe~ to me (for instance, I once wrote a fic about Lux Lisbon from The Virgin Suicides/William Miller from Almost Famous and another time I wrote a fic about two characters from two different kdramas that felt mash-up-able to me). So there's got to be a...connection between the two. Do they feel like they could already inhabit the same world? If so, I can go there.
As for AUs (as opposed to canon divergence), the only kind I really like to write are post-apocalyptic ones, because I like to imagine the characters in extreme situations. (Like I once wrote a zombie apocalypse AU for Nothing Much to Do, which is about as far from that canon's vibe as possible!). Oh and also Star Trek AUs. I have written two of those. But that's probably just because I love Star Trek as a universe so much and also Lan Wangji already acts like he's half-Vulcan.
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I used to be part of this community on lj where we all wrote short fics (usually 300-1000 words, sometimes actual drabbles, sometimes slightly longer) based on monthly prompts and it was specifically for crossovers. I had a lot of fun in that comm because it was a small group of us (about 20 or so?) and we watched mostly the same shows (so, like, the Buffyverse, Friday Night Lights, Veronica Mars, The Black Donnellys, Supernatural, even Gossip Girl--the stuff that was airing at the time or had just aired) and it was just interesting to see if you could create a believable little ficlet involving two characters who didn't know each other. (I actually have several of my favorites of these up on AO3 to this day.) But that was more about the fandom experience of doing it with friends than it was about the inherent appeal of crossovers. I never would have written those fics on my own.
Other than that, most crossover thoughts I'm into are either not actually crossovers since they're set in the same loose universe (for instance, I have a lot of feelings about how Buffy and Gunn should have interacted) or are set in canons that have the same ~vibe~ to me (for instance, I once wrote a fic about Lux Lisbon from The Virgin Suicides/William Miller from Almost Famous and another time I wrote a fic about two characters from two different kdramas that felt mash-up-able to me). So there's got to be a...connection between the two. Do they feel like they could already inhabit the same world? If so, I can go there.
As for AUs (as opposed to canon divergence), the only kind I really like to write are post-apocalyptic ones, because I like to imagine the characters in extreme situations. (Like I once wrote a zombie apocalypse AU for Nothing Much to Do, which is about as far from that canon's vibe as possible!). Oh and also Star Trek AUs. I have written two of those. But that's probably just because I love Star Trek as a universe so much and also Lan Wangji already acts like he's half-Vulcan.