It seems a bit strange to be putting up fic that was 1) jossed very effictively by the real book and 2) as a result completely unfinishable - but I ran across a little cache of fanfic files and decided that it would be a good thing to archive things like this on LJ, just in case I have another Ghastly Accident with my computer, like the time I  ( Read more... )

Once again nineveh_uk  has done what I thought was impossible. And here it is - post-apocalyptic Pride and Prejudice!

I don't see how any remarks of mine could make it any more vist-worthy - so just drop over and have a look. It's short but it's good.

The unbeta'd fragment that is the introduction to a potential Cold Comfort Farm/Twilight crossover fic.

( Click at your peril )

I don't know what's the matter with me today. I've had a sudden, overwhelming urge to sign up for ( Read more... )

And when I say a crossover is odd, you know that it's really odd.
From tree_and_leaf: In which Noggin the Nog meets Spike the Vampire

Against all the odds, it works.

In the Guardian, of all places.

Dumbledore's death in the style of Alexander McCall Smith.

Turns out to be quite a few years old, but it's still a goody.

Having read several of the Numer 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, that slightly soothing, slightly patronising set of books that really only works when you're very tired, I lol'd.

I've read Miss Marple stories, like just about everyone else, but I have only a hazy idea of when they're supposed to be taking place.

So I just wondered, could some expert on my flist tell me roughly how much older she would be than Minerva McGonagall?

... the results of Wednesday's hoax-fic-quiz. Congratulations to
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I haven't been writing much lately.

Unfortunately, all I seem to want to write are really, really peculiar crossovers. Let me give you some examples.

ITEM: Sherlock Holmes and the Disappearance of Miss Eglantine Diggle In which Deadalus Diggle's sister appears to have run off with a Very Unsuitable Young Man, but things are much more complicated than ( Read more... )

Why is it that now I have finally resolved to get the Holmes story written up or burst in the attempt, I can't stop thinking of a Raymond Chandler/Harry Potter crossover in which Molly Weasley is the Ingenue from out of town who appeals to Philip Marlowe's better nature, and subesequently gets him involved in more trouble than he can handle (yet ( Read more... )