Hypothetical crossovers meme

[melannen]

ellen_fremedon has started a meme, which is terribly dangerous but too tempting for me to ignore, so here:

Let's play the Hypothetical Crossover game! Name any two (or more) fandoms you know I'm familiar with*, and I will tell you how I would, hypothetically**, cross them over!

Take the meme, spread the meme, do the meme, love the meme.


*Fandoms I'm familiar with: written on AO3 (expand full list), tagged on DW (under fandoms: , though note my DW tags are a mess atm); marked 'read' on LT: SF and YA, comics (and art), everything. (If you want to be particularly evil, you can give me two fiction fandoms + a nonfiction book and I will mash all three.)

**I thought about saying that you can't name a pair of fandoms about which you know I have already a) written, b) hypothetically discussed, or c) declared I am not writing, but nah. Just, if you give me one of those, you deserve what you get in return!

Comments

[melannen]

Huh. So I was trying to do Snarkout Boys/Cthulhu, and I got stuck. I just... can't figure out how to make it a crossover! If I try to do Pinkwater with a Lovecraftian flavor, it just comes out as a Lovecraft story, and if I try to do Lovecraft with a Pinkwaterian flavor, it just comes out as Pinkwater. I think the fundamental philosophies are too similar (i.e. that nothing in the universe actually makes any sense and most humans survive on denial and routine), it's just that Lovecraft thinks the correct response to discovering this is to go mad with despair, and Pinkwater thinks the correct response is to enjoy it and laugh a lot.

So I guess what I'd have to do is take characters from one of the canons and throw them in a situation where their default response stops working? But I don't *want* to subject any Pinkwater characters to a situation of real cosmic horror! Which leaves plopping Lovecraft characters into a Pinkwater story and seeing what happens...

Actually you know what I'd do? I'd do an adventure of a young Flipping Hades Terwilliger, who teams up with one of the Lovecraft POV characters in a Cthulhu-ish adventure of chthonic horror. Possibly Flipping goes pleasantly mad as a result, although I think it's more likely that he's already mad, and thus is utterly unaffected by all the Things they encounter, leaving his companion uncomprehending in his wake. When he finally writes his account of the adventure, the thing that eventually drives him over the edge is not a manifestation of the Elder Gods, it's Flipping. :P

....I really should read YAN; I suspect that one would work a lot better with Cthulhu.

[seekingferret]

There's always the possibility that Rat is one of the Old Ones.

But I really like the idea of Flipping encountering a chthonic horror and being completely unfazed. And probably bringing that chthonic horror home and adopting it as a pet.

[melannen]

Rat would be one of the Deep Ones, not one of the Old Ones. She never did confess *exactly* what the secret ingredient in Bullfrog Root Beer is. :D

I did consider that but I couldn't figure out where to go from there. Although obviously she and Winston would continue their whatever-it-is-flirtationy-thing even after he finds out she's a batrachian horror, because why wouldn't they?

[sanguinity]

I was stopping by your journal on sara's suggestion for some other purpose, saw the Pinkwater tag, followed the link here and... I am so glad I lucked into seeing this. I wouldn't have missed this hypothetical crossover for the world. :-D

[melannen]

Yay! Another Pinkwaterian! :D