163: A Random Blend of Families and Fashions

[thefourthvine]

Do you ever have one of those Bad Fannish Idea days? Where, like, you think, "I know what'd be cool! A Fullmetal Alchemist x Supernatural crossover. Yes, I want that, despite the fact that I don't know either fandom and it would be so angst-filled that small nations would simply collapse under the weight of the despair and never really know why." Or you think, "OMG! I will buy a vidder in Sweet Charity, and I will have her vid Smallville to Thunder Road, with Lex as the narrator and Clark as Mary." (Speaking of Sweet Charity, won't some ho-ish type go over there and offer her services in Making LJs Pretty? I don't want a banner; I want someone to create general prettiness via magic, because I am really damn tired of my blue boxes. Someone must be willing to do that for a good cause!)

Anyway. I am having a Bad Fannish Idea day, obviously. (Come on! It'd be the Angsty Sons of Tragically Dead Mothers crossover. Or, OMG, a fusion, where Dean and Sam are alchemists and Sam is a suit of armor and - oh my god, this is total craziness. I don't know either fandom. Someone help me. At least give me a Bad Fannish Idea in a fandom I actually know.)

So, here is my feeble attempt at distracting myself from my Bad Fannish Ideas. (Or, like - I could buy a vidder and have her do "I Will Survive" for Jack/Daniel after Daniel's ascension: "So you're back/from outer space/I just walked in to find you here/With that same look upon your face/I should have locked the stupid gate/I should have changed your IDC/If I'd known for just one second" - oh god it's a sickness I can't stop won't someone for the love of all that is holy please help me? Think of the fandom!) Other people's Good Fannish Ideas! They can save me!

Perhaps I can catch some sanity off these stories. God, I hope so.

So, is there a theme to this set? Not really. Kind of. See, a while ago, I did the interview meme in vassilissa's LJ, and one of the questions she asked me was what I'm reading right now. I gave her the non-fannish answers right away, because, well, it's easy to list the books I have in my purse, on my bedside table, next to the stove, and next to the computer. (Yes. Fine. I have a reading problem. I've gotten better, okay? You should have seen me when I was little - except, wait, you couldn't have, because my face was always buried in a book.) The fannish answer, though, was a little harder.

I guess you could say right now, I'm reading sort of randomly. I'm in a phase of waiting, fannishly speaking: waiting for the next fandom to eat me alive, waiting for the next fandom I feel compelled to read through the entire catalog of and then whine bitterly for more more more. (If you've ever felt the desire to pimp me into something, now would likely be a good time.) So, while I'm waiting, I'm reading a combination of new fandoms - fandoms I don't know at all, with, of course, canons I don't know at all - and new stories in old favorite fandoms.

Let's start with the new stories in old favorite fandoms, shall we?

The One That Proves That When We Talk About How the Other Half Lives, We Really Don't Know the Half of It. (Uh, That Pun Was Unintentional. Please Forgive.) Freaky Tuesday, by etben. Due South, Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski.

Oh, due South. I will forever love you, and not just because you have communities with names like stop_drop_porn. No, really, the love mostly comes straight from the characters themselves, and of course from the fact that in dS, anything goes. Bodyswap? Of course, no problem - if the canon had run a season longer, it would certainly have happened, and it probably would have in fact been explained just the way it is in this story: a minor error in the application of fabric arts.

(Hey, I'm not pointing fingers at the person who made the error, here. Macramé is hard. I know this for a fact because my mother took it up when I was six, mercifully briefly, for a summer that will probably be known in our official family history, in the unlikely event that someone writes one, as the Time of Unfortunate Knot-Related Incidents. Also, let me just share with you a hard lesson learned early: if someone asks you to hold something just for one second, and that person is doing a craft, don't. You'll end up knotted into a plant holder while your mother tries to figure out how to get you back out. I suppose my parents were lucky CPS didn't stop by while she was flipping through the book looking for the part titled "If You Have Accidentally Made Your Child a Permanent Part of Your Project.")

And this story reminds me of all the reasons I love and will always love dS. I mean, the way the guys adapt to being in each other's bodies - for Ray, this is just some deeper-than-usual undercover work, and for Fraser, well, he has weirder things than this in his closet, and I mean that literally. Plus, hey: it was written for stop_drop_porn. So there is sex. And since I firmly believe that these guys were OMG MEANT TO BE, like forever, with cherries on top (Yes. Cherries. Oh, you are totally a perv, you know that? You just read dirtiness into everything. It's why I love you.), so in love and totally doing it, the sex makes me almost as happy as the bodyswappage does.

The One That Got Me Reading a Book About a TV Show I Had Not Even Heard of Prior to Reading This Story. Yes, That's Pathetic, Because It Turns out to Have Been the Basis for One of My Favorite Shows Ever, but - I'm Slow, Okay? Five Things Sorkin Never Got to Steal from Sportscenter (But Probably Would Have, if Sports Night Hadn’t Been Cancelled), by scrunchy. Sports Night, gen.

Oh, Sports Night. I will forever love you, and this despite the fact that you managed to make me feel like a total idiot for not realizing that Sports Night, the show, was inspired on an actual TV show on an actual TV station. (They have shows! About sports news! On TV! Who knew? Oh, right, everyone in the whole world but me. Please hide your mocking laughter and pretend, at least to my face, that I am not pathetic and so culturally out of touch that I might as well be from Planet Zik'tch. Also, if you are in the neighborhood of Zik'tch, stop by and tell my people - no, not those people; I still have my boobs - that I miss them, okay?)

This is just - I am incoherent with glee about this story. For one, I cannot believe that these things more or less happened in the real world. For another, Scrunchy managed to convert them into the SN world so perfectly that I am starting to believe she's Aaron Sorkin reborn. (And before you say, "But Aaron Sorkin isn't dead," - look. I'm not saying he is. I'm just saying I think Scrunchy has his soul and his writing mojo. Maybe they have a timeshare arrangement or maybe she made a dark pact with the Elder Gods - I'm no expert on the metaphysics of writing, people. I just know absolutely perfect voice when I read it.) For yet another - wow, this totally gave me the best kind of emotional whiplash. It's not often that I go, within the space of a single five-things story, from real, honest laughing out loud to snuffling sadly to saying, "Awwwwwww" to the monitor, but this one makes me do that. Every single time I read it. And I will have you know I've read it an indecent amount since it was posted.

The One That Proves That the First Rule of Elf Orgies Is - Look, It Doesn't Matter, Because You All Stopped Paying the Slightest Attention As Soon As You Read the Words "Elf Orgies," Didn't You? An Earthly Knight, by ltlj. Stargate: Atlantis, John Sheppard/original female characters, John Sheppard/original male characters.

Oh, SGA. I will forever love you (and, yes, you do qualify as an old favorite now, so there), because - well, just look at this story. John turns into an elf. (ltlj has, um, some pictorial evidence that he maybe didn't have that far to go, which she might show you if she's feeling nice.) And it's just - well, of course he does. It's the Pegasus Galaxy! These things happen! If the characters have any sense, they're just thinking, "Well, it could be worse. He could be a feral elf vampire. With wings."

And, see, in another fandom, any story with this concept (and certainly any story with the rating "NC-17 for elfsex" - I mean, except in LotR) would be crack (...and if anyone mentions elf MPreg drawings right now, that's five points off the house of all humanity, and ten more if anyone links to them), but this is SGA. So it isn't crack. It's just a bunch of folks asking themselves that eternal question: what do you do with a feral elf? My own personal answer would be, "Run," but this is why I am not cut out for life in Pegasus, I suppose. The characters just knuckle down to some problem solving, Pegasus-style. (Except John, who knuckles down to the elf orgies. It's hard to be John Sheppard, folks.)

Note, by the way: this was written for the awesome 14valentines project, which I admire more than I can possibly say. It's over for this year, now - god forbid I should ever recommend anything in a timely fashion - but you can still hit the community and check out all the awesomeness it inspired. And you can still give to the causes it was built to support, because, sadly, women are still in need.

The One That Made Me Nostalgic for Peanut Butter Sandwiches, Which Is Odd, Because I Only Started Eating Peanut Butter Sandwiches This Year. Feel That, by fearlessfan. Friday Night Lights, Tyra Collette/Jason Street.

Yes, this would mark my subtle transition from fandoms I love to fandoms I, well, barely know. Fandoms, if you will, that I have slept with a few times, and now I'm trying to figure out their last names and if I want to hook up again with them on the weekend, and, like, do I have their phone number, even? Normally I try to avoid recommending stories when I'm in this stage with fandoms, mostly because it involves a lot of embarrassing things like admitting to myself that I don't know the full names of the characters, even, and cannot say what is canon and what is not, and in fact could not testify in court that the canon even exists. All I can say is, blame vassilissa. She asked.

So. I can't tell you anything at all about Friday Night Lights. (It's about teenagers! In Texas! Who play football! So actually I do know stuff. Just not, you know, minor details. Like names and things.) But I can tell you that I love this story, because, well. First, this is high school, people. Or perhaps I should say, "this is adolescence." I mean, I did not go to a small, football-obsessed high school in Texas - one could, in fact, say I didn't really go to high school at all, in any practical sense. But I did my time as an adolescent, as we all must. And that, of course, means I did my share of adolescent stuff (and also the shares of at least three random strangers - I was very dedicated to the whole teen experience, or at least the really stupid parts). And, wow - in this story, fearlessfan so perfectly captures the feeling of adolescence - the intensity, the awkwardness, the surprising moments of sweetness, the less-surprising moments of sourness, the way things change, the way small moments are really really huge.

Basically, I love this story because it made me like the characters. It made me believe in the characters. What more can I say?

The One That Proves That, No Matter What Hallmark Might Try to Tell You, an Anachronism Is Really the Greatest Gift of All. The Discovery, by kaneko. Torchwood, Jack Harkness/Ianto Jones. (Hey, I only had to look up last names for half of this pairing! I already knew Jack Harkness, and I'm very proud of that, despite the fact that I believe everyone in fandom has heard of him by now. The man seems to, um. Get around a bit.)

Some of you may be aware that I have a time travel kink. And when I say "kink," I am - well, wildly understating the matter.

I've said this before, but - I watched the 2002 movie of The Time Machine with incredible enjoyment, despite the fact that - as Best Beloved pointed out to me when we left the theater - it, well, sucked. Because: time travel. You take a character, you send him through time, and I will be captivated and happy, even if the part of my brain that has actual intelligent function is sending out desperate cries of, "OMG help cannot take the suckage SAVE US." My point: time travel hits me in my primitive hindbrain, and my primitive hindbrain doesn't care if something sucks.

But this story, this story is the precise opposite of suck: it made my hindbrain and my actual brain happy. If time travel = happy TFV, then time travel + good story = TFV weak with joy. I mean, I don't know these characters at all - I understand that Jack is a stuck time traveler, and I hear he's in charge of a team of (possibly) lovable misfits in modern-day Cardiff, but that's where all my understanding ends - but I didn't need to know them to love this story. And I don't want to spoil the central plot point, here, but - god, it works. It's so perfectly normal, and then it's so perfectly time travel, and I loved every minute of Jack's reaction to this situation, I loved loved loved the plot point, I just - I loved the story, okay? And it satisfied the voracious beast that lives in my hindbrain and shrieks non-stop for time travel stories.

Really, I could not ask for more or better than that. Except maybe more of the same. The hindbrain beast is ever hungry, you know.

Comments

[qe2.livejournal.com]

1) I suppose my parents were lucky CPS didn't stop by while she was flipping through the book looking for the part titled "If You Have Accidentally Made Your Child a Permanent Part of Your Project."

I love you SO much. Not just or mostly or mainly for this sort of thing, but it does factor in there somewhere.


2) It's hard to be John Sheppard, folks.

...so to fucking SPEAK. You...you...augh!


3) I did my share of adolescent stuff (and also the shares of at least three random strangers

OMG. So that's where my misspent youth went. Dammit, now I gotta sow all those wild oats at that accursed Age At Which One Knows Better. SO not fair.

(Also, I don't know about the TV show - that's on the long list of things I have yet to catch up on, though not without valiantly trying - but the movie was, in my opinion, wonderful. Billy Bob Thornton didn't even chew any of the scenery. Miraculous, really.)


4) I watched the 2002 movie of The Time Machine with incredible enjoyment, despite the fact that - as Best Beloved pointed out to me when we left the theater - it, well, sucked.

But it did have Guy Pearce in, which was of the good. And it was entertaining. On the whole, that beats more than half of what's out there, no?

I suspect misspamela has already tried to pimp you into Torchwood (hm - on second thought, perhaps she reserved her efforts for I-Man?). If not - or even if so - I would be happy to arrange for you to receive some canon viewing aids, if you like.

*smooches you gratefully*

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I love you SO much. Not just or mostly or mainly for this sort of thing, but it does factor in there somewhere.

I love you, too, and not just because you cherish my childhood history of dreadful craft-related accidents.

...so to fucking SPEAK. You...you...augh!

*giggles* See? I also love you because you get my horrible jokes.

OMG. So that's where my misspent youth went. Dammit, now I gotta sow all those wild oats at that accursed Age At Which One Knows Better. SO not fair.

Best Beloved says pretty much the same thing - she was a Model of Rectitude and Right-Living in her youth, until we met, and then she kind of, um, drifted - except I think she considers herself well out of it. (Actually, you were well out of it, too. The kind of wild oats I sowed are the poisonous kind. Plus, there's something to be said for sowing your wild oats after you're old enough to understand the concepts of a) common sense and b) basic personal safety.)

Also, I don't know about the TV show - that's on the long list of things I have yet to catch up on, though not without valiantly trying - but the movie was, in my opinion, wonderful. Billy Bob Thornton didn't even chew any of the scenery. Miraculous, really.

Wow. I am impressed; I didn't know he could do that. Or rather, not do that. Whatever.

The TV show - I'm hearing good things about it. Great things, actually, from people I trust. But part of me is like, "But...but...teenagers! In Texas! With football! How can that be good?" And the other part of me is totally feeling up the fandom from behind.

But it did have Guy Pearce in, which was of the good. And it was entertaining.

And it had animated time travel sequences. I don't care how exceptionally wrong that is, it just cannot be other than cool.

on second thought, perhaps she reserved her efforts for I-Man?

She did indeed. But others have basically wandered in, smacked me soundly, and said, "You have a time travel kink, and yet you are not in DW/TW. Can you find five ways that picture is fundamentally stupid?" And so I am getting BB through the DW eps, and then I fully expect to transition to TW. (And I've got DW covered, thanks to a generous source that shall remain nameless, but I will let you know if I need TW. Which I might. Time travel eeeeee!)

*smooches back, in a highly gratuitous and inappropriate fashion, just to celebrate your Return to the Internets*

[anenko.livejournal.com]

If you've ever felt the desire to pimp me into something, now would likely be a good time.

I've already pushed Get Backers at you; if you haven't already looked at the fic, start with ranalore.

louiselux writes awesome Saiyuki fic, and has recs to other incredible authors in the fandom.

If you can find yourself an experienced guide, Bleach and Naruto are both fine series. The fandoms, I have heard, rival Harry Potter for the crazy, though.

While it is a tiny fandom for a not very well known series, Big Wolf on Campus rocks. It's meta! and slash! and I love it so. There are episodes available on YouTube.

[esther-a.livejournal.com]

I used to watch that show! The only fic I've found for it is on Yuletide, though. Do you have any recommendations?

[anenko.livejournal.com]

Most BWoC fic is on ff.net, or thewereandthegoth mailing list on yahoogroups. Most of the fic isn't very *polished,* but you can still find some good stuff there.

carolinecrane is the fandom's biggest name, with the largest collection of fanfic (http://desiderium.slashcity.net/bwoc.html) (primarily Tommy/Merton, with a bit of Becky/Lori).

Carleton97 only wrote a couple of BWoC fics, but they're quite good. My favourite would be the first one (http://carleton97.populli.net/Epithalamion.htm).

Jen has an archive (http://www.geocities.com/bwocfics/main.html). It's been a while since I read her fic, but I don't recall being very happy with her Merton characterization (I recall crying. Lots of crying). That said, I did rather like Shimmer (http://www.geocities.com/bwocfics/shimmer.html) and Voodoo Schmoodoo (http://community.livejournal.com/mertonjdingle/36597.html).

While unfinished, I like DUSTED (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1238243/1/).

A mild hurt/comfort fic: Scents (http://www.angelfire.com/realm/obsidianquills/sfiction/bwoc/Scents.html).

For zany adventures, there's Night of the Leaping Dead (http://aunty_mib.tripod.com/fellow_slashers/Wirrn_night.html).

I wrote some BWoC fic as well; some slash, some gen, and some het. My favourite would probably be Option Number Two (http://community.livejournal.com/iwrotethat/8444.html).

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Yup, you got me into GetBackers, and I'm getting into the FF. I'd shake my fist at you, but, well, I like Ban and Ginji too much. (And Akabane. I have an insane love for Akabane, which probably makes me a bad person. I accept this, for I cannot change it.) Also, I have to thank you - the manga got me through an unfortunate period of having to lie flat on my back for long periods of time, so, really, you could not have pimped GB to me at a more auspicious time.

louiselux is responsible for my interest in Saiyuki. Wither she goeth, there go I, although in this case it's taken me some time to get there. (Well, when she started in Saiyuki, I was like, "...Manga? What now?" So there was a learning curve.)

If you can find yourself an experienced guide, Bleach and Naruto are both fine series.

I'm skeeeeeeeered. The canons look hard! Plus, I kind of twitch when I see Naruto these days, thanks to my AMV addiction. (It is law: everyone must vid Naruto once. Usually to Linkin Park. And I, I have watched far too many Naruto AMVs as a result.)

While it is a tiny fandom for a not very well known series, Big Wolf on Campus rocks.

Oh, god, I know nothing about this fandom, except that someone once linked to a YT vid for it, and it was the gayest thing ever. Gayer than The Sentinel, even, and until the day I didn't think that could be done. If you know of a non-YT source for eps (so I can watch in slothful comfort), I'd love to hear about it. Like, are there DVDs? *ponders*

[anenko.livejournal.com]

Yup, you got me into GetBackers, and I'm getting into the FF.

[Mr. Burns] Excellent [/Mr. Burns]

I'd shake my fist at you, but, well, I like Ban and Ginji too much. (And Akabane. I have an insane love for Akabane, which probably makes me a bad person. I accept this, for I cannot change it.)

The characters are just so wonderfully *dorky.* They're hard to resist.

Also, I have to thank you - the manga got me through an unfortunate period of having to lie flat on my back for long periods of time, so, really, you could not have pimped GB to me at a more auspicious time.

If you haven't checked out the anime, I'd give that a go, as well. It's only twenty-six episodes, and the art is prettier than the manga. I love the manga, but it's so very. . . *comic book,* especially with the dialoge.

louiselux is responsible for my interest in Saiyuki. Wither she goeth, there go I, although in this case it's taken me some time to get there.

She's well worth following. When I first read the manga, I was desperate for good fic. After finding louiselux, I realized that my search was over: I had only to stake out her lj, and I was set.

I'm skeeeeeeeered. The canons look hard!

Bleach is a bit more difficult than Naruto, I think. Naruto integrates new characters better than does Bleach, and--IMHO--has names that are far easier to recall. I'd recommend at least the first few volumes; if you get lost during the Soul Society arc, I'd consider dropping the series (I hear it only gets more confusing later on, with even *more* new characters, and less time spent on old favourites).

Do you like swords? If so, have a few fics about my favourite character and her (living) sword:
http://bravecows.livejournal.com/151402.html
http://thewritegirls.populli.net/afrai/shirayuki.html
http://moonsheen.livejournal.com/57904.html
http://community.livejournal.com/31_days/477546.html
http://pushthesky.livejournal.com/21322.html
http://tokyofish.livejournal.com/199205.html?style=mine
http://community.livejournal.com/31_days/713679.html
http://raynos.livejournal.com/24936.html

Rukia is my absolute favourite character. If you like her, I'd point you in bravecows direction. She writes an awesome Rukia (and Renji and Ichigo).

I really fell in love with Naruto during the Chuunin exam arc. You get a lot of new characters, and a lot of character development for old characters.

I avoid the fandom's big slash pairing because I'm feeling contrary, so I can't offer you any suggestions on that front.

Oh, god, I know nothing about this fandom, except that someone once linked to a YT vid for it, and it was the gayest thing ever.

That was probably me! Every now and then, I forget how gay BWoC is. And then I'm stunned all over again: good God, this is a kid's show? I love it so.

If you know of a non-YT source for eps (so I can watch in slothful comfort), I'd love to hear about it. Like, are there DVDs? *ponders*

There are no official DVDs. I got my DVDs from a fellow fan, although that was a one time deal. Really, unless you can find someone with copies of the episodes, the easiest way *is* YouTube.

[brownbetty]

My Bad Fandom Idea for today already happened, which was the insane conviction that Captain Jack Harkness is sekritly the Go Fug Yourself Girls' Intern George. I exorcised it, though, and am feeling much better.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

WHY? WHY DID YOU EXORCISE THIS IDEA, WHEN CLEARLY IT IS MADE OF AWESOME?

OMG. I love you for having the idea, and hate you for driving it away, and now it's going to be just like one of those bad SF stories where a supercomputer AI is confronted with contradictory information and explodes. I love you! But I must hate you! But I msut love you!

*BOOM*

[brownbetty]

Well, I exorcised it in commemorative icons?

[zoerayne]

But. But.

The SPN/FMA fusion idea would be fabulous! No, really. And I'm not just saying that because I had the same idea and maybe jotted down some notes. Not at all. *koff*

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Really? Eeeee YAY!

Um, I suppose there's not a chance in hell that it will be gen, so the odds of me being able to read it are, well, basically, none, but I will be so happy just to know that it exists. (I'm already assuming you're going to write it, you note, because it will make the universe a fundamentally more right place merely by existing. Not that I want you to feel responsible or anything.) And it is nice to know that I am not alone in my madness, believing that SPN and FMA were meant for each other. (In fairness, I should note that BB agrees with me. So if we're mad, at least there's three of us crazy together, and crazy is always better in company. Perhaps we can hold little parties of crazy. I will bring dessert!)

[zoerayne]

I suppose there's not a chance in hell that it will be gen,

Um. Do you require actual gen, or would het (or other non-incesty slash) suffice? Because I'm apparently more likely to write het in SPN than anything else.... (And really, WTF?! How did that happen?)

Perhaps we can hold little parties of crazy. I will bring dessert!

That sounds like a brilliant idea. We're not the only ones, either. Both onnakitty and koukishin_koto agree with us, so make sure there's enough dessert for everyone. I'll bring the booze. *g*

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Do you require actual gen, or would het (or other non-incesty slash) suffice?

I can't read incest or chan or RPS. I'm so narrow-minded. *sad* But I'm totally open to het or non-incesty slash, and, seriously, for this crossover, I would read waaaaay outside my usual boundaries even if I was opposed to het or whatever, because: SPN x FMA: Meant to Be!

Just. Not incest. Still can't cope, despite years of trying.

That sounds like a brilliant idea. We're not the only ones, either. Both onnakitty and koukishin_koto agree with us, so make sure there's enough dessert for everyone. I'll bring the booze.

You know, for a crazed second you had me considering seriously what dessert I should make. Because, you know, five people, you'll probably need two - that many, not everyone will like one thing. And I was thinking, individual servings would be good. So, like, panna cotta with a raspberry sauce? And maybe a chocolate mousse? And then I returned from planning a party in crazyland, and fortunately my brain was still mostly intact, but it was a near thing, there.

[zoerayne]

You know, for a crazed second you had me considering seriously what dessert I should make.

*g* Well, when next we're in the area, maybe we can get together for drinks and dessert. We usually make it out there at least once a year—though our annual trek just happened and I totally failed to think about stalking making plans to meet up with you.

[ash-of-roses.livejournal.com]

I am actually going through comments months (years?) later, in hopes that someone will have written this fic. Did it ever go anywhere?

[zoerayne]

Sadly, no. I'm not writing SPN anymore. Heck, I'm not writing anything anymore. Sorry.

[archaeodancer.livejournal.com]

Oh my. Sports Night recs too? I've just friended you, hope that's ok.

(I now give feedback when I read fics. Basically because you said so. And because it is a Good Thing to do).

[plum-muffin.livejournal.com]

I just discovered your recs (they were pimped in the comments of a dueSouth fic finder community) and thought I would just let you know how much I'm already coming to love them. I also thought I'd let you know that there already has been a FMA/Supernatural crossover (http://ishnaru.livejournal.com/44603.html). As far as I remember, there are hits of Elricest but the actual sex is between Ed and Dean.

As for bad fannish ideas, I would love to see a crossover between Hellblazer and Buffy where John Constantine and Ethan Rayne meet. Of course, that's probably largely due to the fact that I am such a sucker for crossovers.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you!

I've got to read that FMA x SPN one. Aaaaand, since one good turn deserves another - there actually is a Hellblazer x BtVS story in which Constantine and Ethan Rayne encounter each other: Border Men (http://www.dymphna.net/ucsl/archive/janete-bordermen.txt), by 3jane and thete1. (I'm going to assume you don't need warnings, since, well, John Constantine and Ethan Rayne.)

[plum-muffin.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :: goes off to read it ::

[ainsley.livejournal.com]

The link to ltlj's story is broken, and as the world absolutely cannot be without Sheppard in elf orgies, I did a very tiny amount of work and found it here: http://www.ltljverse.com/watergate/stories/earthlyknight.htm

I'm really, really wondering why it took three and a half years of being friends with writers and voracious readers of fic, and dabbling in fandom myself all that time, to start seriously reading fic. Not even having fallen for jflan eight years before everyone else makes up for that.