crossovering '15 dear author letter

[raktajinos]

Well, hello Crossovering writer! First and foremost, I want you to have a great time writing for this fest, cause crossovers are the best right!? I'm really easy to please and as long long as you avoid my squicks, I'm open to anything. I've put some general likes/dislikes as well as some prompts for each crossover, but feel free to go wherever you want with the story. I'm also open to any crossovers between any of the fandoms listed here, whether they are in the same "section" or not. Or heck, if you know it's a fandom I love (but not listed here), go for it.



General Likes
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strong female characters doing badass things

friendships between women

women saving the day

men in touch with their feelings

strong men who support the women around them

nuanced explorations of "strength" and the various ways it can be expressed

desires for/claiming/reclaiming power

time travel

robots, cyborgs

aliens

literary fusions/allegory

team bonding

found/chosen families

stuck in an enclosed space together (elevators, boats, planes, etc)

humour/laughter

exploration of identity and it's factors

fun vintage clothing escapades

people enjoying meals together

angst with happy endings

plotless character studies

conversations between people

first time

established relationship

couples finally getting together after being forever apart and denying their feelings

AUs of all flavours (historical, coffeeshop, slayers, royalty, military, space, etc)

kinks I enjoy: light/humour sex, a/b/o, knotting, rough sex, size kink, realistic sex,

tropes: aliens-made-them-do-it, fake boyfriends, undercover, everyone else knows except them, matchmaking,

enthusiastic consent!

plots shamelessly stolen from other films

integration of Jack Harkness (Torchwood) or Helen Magnus (Sanctuary) into every and all fanfic worlds and shipping them with everyone

happy people

loving, kind families

older women & cross generational friendships

queer positive spaces & futures

left wing politics and discussions of politics

enjoying the outdoors

nerd culture

traditionally female spaces/activities being valued and passed-on through generations

snow

warm beverages

feminism

race

Canadian stuff

friends teasing each other and having fun

General Dislikes
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- noncon/dubcon, sexual violence of any kind
- incest
- infidelity
- misogyny/racism/homophobia/transphobia/ableism/etc - unless these are themes you're actively discussing/working with in your fic, then that is alright.
- bloodplay (unless character is a vampire), scat, bodily fluids not normally associated with sex being used in sex, hard BDSM
- selfharm/suicide
- RPF



#1 The 'Immortal Time-Traveller' Set:
Agent Carter, Forever, Sanctuary, Torchwood

Ships in this tagset: Helen/John/James, Henry/Nikola, Jack/Ianto. I'm pretty fluid otherwise. NO Helen/Nikola - it's one of my few NOTPS haha.

I have a major thing for immortal time-travelling badasses, it's one of my favourite tropes. And all these fandoms have that! Well okay, *technically* Agent Carter isn't, but it's not a big jump to imagine Peggy as a time-travelling badass right? So if you wanted to take some of these characters, put them in a specific time period and have some fun, I'll love it. It should also be noted that I ship Helen Magnus and Jack Harkness with like every character ever written, so run wild that if you're so inclined. For Sanctuary, I love all the members of the Five, so run with those if you want. You'll also notice I'm pretty into the queerness of immortal timetravellers.

Henry Morgan was *almost* the sixth member of The Five (Sanctuary), what if he actually was? What literary identity would he have grown into? What would the relationship dynamics in the group be? (Poly & messy/jealous stuff is great here. Helen/John/James is one of my ships).

Henry or Helen or James or Jack worked with Peggy at Shield? And also dated them?

any of the immortal characters run into each other again after several decades and are shocked that the other hasn't aged & panic/curious about having to explain their situation.

Peggy accidently stumbles upon the weirdness/truth of

Jack does have access to the Tardis so maybe he "borrows" it and takes a character on an adventure and, naturally, hits on them/attempts to seduce them

Henry was actually part of Howard Stark's scientific work (and maybe lover?) and his work/guinea-pig status lead to the success with Steve.

some hyper sexy fun Peggy/Jack/Steve WW2 fun/angsty/coolness. Well heck, the Sanctuary people were around then too

Henry coming back to work at the Sanctuary network after years away?

any of the immortal time people hanging around at a bar lamenting/waxxing on about how cool it is to be an immortal person but also how it sucks

the mortal people who love the immortals bonding over how much it sucks? Maybe: Peggy, Ianto, Henry, Angie, Howard, anyone else you want.

integrating historical figures in; the time they met and hung out with our cast of characters.

Henry & Helen (&James?) being super nerdy together.

#2 The 'Badass Feminist' Set:
Agent Carter, Arrow, Buffy, Bad Blood, iZombie, Veronica Mars

Ships in this set: Laurel/Cisco, Laurel/Joe West, Buffy/Angel/Faith/Spike (any config), Willow/Tara, Veronica/Logan, V/Lamb, V/Weevil. Not attached to any of these super hard, so feel free to ignore. :)

With this set I'd love to see any of the female characters from any of these fandoms interact with each other and be all badass feminists together. You could use the Bad Blood canon as a setting - maybe it's a post-apocalyptic world and they're the badass fighters, or maybe it's a current-world top secret organization that fights injustice with badassery and good fashion, or maybe its the post-season7 Slayer Empire that Buffy builds. OR ANYTHING ELSE. I'm literally cool with any crossover idea between these fandoms. I'll give some more prompt ideas because if I was reading this I'd be frustrated as hell with just this paragraph hahah. Also, please don't do any RPF kinda stuff for the 'Bad Blood' fandom; work as if they are the characters in the video not the actors lol. :)

Laurel & Thea go on a road trip and end up in Neptune/Sunnydale and help solve the crime of the week or take Lead Lady to the bar for a fun night out

Laurel and Veronica went to law school together

Liv (iZombie) needs some help fighting off the Hoarde, so Buffy & Faith come in to help slay some zombies and provide snappy commentary

Team Arrow comes to Sunnydale! Felicity&Willow, show-off fighting, leather pants appreciation

Peggy Carter is a member of the Watcher's Council and works from the inside to make it better (or handles 2nd wave feminist issues like getting fair pay & workplace sexism)

Peggy, Thea, Laurel, Liv, and/or Veronica *are* Slayers (either in their own canon or in a post-Chosen way)

anyone in the fandoms gets bitten by a zombie and CRISIS

ARGUS & SHIELD are aligned and so that puts Peggy in a power position and she runs into Team Arrow.

a party of some kind (birthday, wedding, saved-the-world, poker night, etc) and some of the lady characters all hang out together and be ridiculous

crack, 'they're all in prison' :P

maybe Justice & Luna (Bad Blood) are the leaders of a Feminist Fight Group or something, recruiting people.

go all 'Jane Austen Fight Club'

xover romance options. I'd prefer something gen, but if you have a ship idea, cool, go for it. I have no die-hard ships in these fandoms.

#3 The 'World Building' Set:
12 Monkeys, Orphan Black, Fringe, X-Files

Ships in this set: Cole/Cassie, Peter/Olivia, Mulder/Scully, Mulder/Krychek. Not dead-set attached to these, so feel free to ignore.

Honestly, the world-building options here are just too plentiful and gorgeous to comprehend. I'd love something focused on the politics and world-building than something more character driven (which is an odd choice for me). But if you want to do something character focused, I'd love that too. There's so many possibilities when it comes to time travel, cloning, experimental science, alternate universes, ect.

Maybe Katerina Jones, Walter Bishop, Mrs S were part of some weird/cool science cult who pushed the limits of science together? Maybe they dated each other?

who was Jones' exhusband? Was it Bell? Cigarette-Smoking Man?

whats with these worlds and the number 12? What the heck are those 12 babies/bluepeople in 12Monkeys? Are they clones? Are they an altVerse (red/blue) strand of Leda/Castor?

maybe Olivia and Scully are related somehow? Or maybe Cassie & Scully?

maybe Jones or Walter was a professor of Scully's or Mulder's at school?

what if Cosima works for Fringe Division ?

maybe Fringe Division is the altVerse version of the X-Files Dept. They live in a reality/future where the department was believed in/invested in and so it was able to grow.

what if it's one big conspiracy? Maybe whomever released the virus in 12M also was responsible for the Black Ooze stuff in X-Files (or pick two other related-type issues)

are there altVerse version of the Leda clones? So not only are there the clones themselves, but their altVersions too (you could also do a more Trek-inspired 'mirrorverse' thing if you wanted). OR what if any character(s) met their altVerse self?

If you have any questions or whatever about this, you can send me an email (coffeeinthatnebula at gmail dot com) or anon through my tumblr ask. :)