One of These Things Is Not Like the Other

[osprey_archer]

Criminal Minds and Veronica Mars are both excellent shows about crime-fighting, which have otherwise little in common. Criminal Minds is a naturalistic show, and its heroes are the BAU, an elite FBI unit. Veronica Mars is a operatic show, and its heroine is Veronica Mars, vigilante.

In Criminal Minds, the police, the law, and the FBI are almost

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[team_fen]

Because she’d get a kick out of flashing her fake ID in front of the FBI.

Hotch is torn between congratulating Veronica and telling her he’s going to do everything in his power to ensure she never becomes an FBI agent, because working well with people is really not a Veronica thing.

Heh! I love cross-overs. I only know the VM side to this one, but I like how knowing one side gives you a window into the other show-- it's how I've been sucked into some fandoms. Please keep sharing any and all cross-over crack that comes to mind.

One of my favourites is Supernatural/Numb3rs:
Take a Long Line by derry667, which is about the similarities between two pairs of brothers, again with the FBI vs. vigilante justice, and the rational vs. supernatural worlds.

My favourite WIP I'm reading right now is azephirin's Cracked Stars Shining, a long Supernatural/Harry Potter/Jossverse story with Dean/Hermione as the central pairing.

And lyredenfers has a specialty in cracked-out crossovers. --Imo

[team_fen]

I can't believe I forgot! You may have already read it:

Trying to Communicate by sam_storyteller. Torchwood/LOLcat crossover FTW! --Imo

[osprey_archer]

I have read the LOLcatz Torchwood story, but any reason to read it again is a good reason.

Take a Long Line is giving the nascent hell-fic an inferiority complex, having distilled its essence (albeit with two different shows). I've never watched Supernatural, which perhaps I should remedy over the summer? Because I keep running into it everywhere on the internet.

I actually got into Torchwood by reading fanfic, so I understand completely getting sucked in by crossovers. You may get your wish for more crossover madness, because my brain loves comparing things to completely unrelated things and confusing everyone who isn't me.

[team_fen]

You really should watch Supernatural, and not just because it's the little black dress of fandoms when it comes to crossovers. It's not perfect tv, but it's tv that's really, really satisfying on a number of different levels. My favourite episodes are mostly from 1.09 to 2.12. I think the show needed the first few episodes in season 1 to settle into what worked, and the quality falls off a bit at the end of season 2. Season 3 is terrible. SPN fandom is volatile at the best of times, and right now half the fandom is loudly pointing out why S3 is really bad, and the other half is in complete denial.

A couple more to draw you in!

Redemption is a Four Letter Word by ethrosdemon. SPN/Angel crossover. There's a bitingly funny Lindsey McDonald POV (my favourite morally ambiguous, guitar-playing evil lawyer) and great meta about purgatory. It's Dean/Lindsey.

Weight and Motion and Line and Wire by sevenfists. SPN/Firefly crossover. At first I wished she'd just left it as straight Firefly!fic (and pretty much the best Firefly!fic I've read), but she