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Apr 19, 2006 09:56

I was doing this with iphignia939 last night and it was fun and I'm already climbing the walls so why not?

Give me the names of two characters I might know, and I'll make up a summary or outline for a fic that pairs them. Male, female, RPS, FPS, whatever fandom, however weird. (Because I'm xoverAU, I reserve the right to make some of them AUs.) Go! ( Read more... )

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xoverau April 25 2006, 21:09:32 UTC

Marilyn Manson/Brian LittrellBrian gets an unexpected donation to his Healthy Heart charity, proceeds from the sale of one of MM's most controversial paintings. It's a religiously-themed work, raw and brightly colored and visceral, and a lot of critics go to see it just to look for subtle perversions of faith. It's just three crosses on a hill, and the Xs in perspective weave with the slope of it to look like barbed wire or maybe thorns, a blue sky above and bright green grass below as brilliant as a child's drawing. Some critics say it's an ironic comment on concentration camps and persecution of the Jews and some say it's suggesting religion is a prison, and some say it's mocking the pie-in-the-sky fundamentalism of the new church. All of them find whatever they're looking for (as art critics are wont to do) and blather about it in every media source they can. Because of that, it fetched a huge sum when it sold ( ... )

nopseud April 25 2006, 23:32:38 UTC

Dude. I have no words. I've read this about a dozen times now, with breaks in between, and it's still making me grin like a maniac. You really are the Supreme Ruler Of Crossovers. Even as a summary it's so beautifully vivid.

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I have to ask, though -- why did he choose Brian's heart foundation to give the proceeds from the painting to in the first place?

xoverau April 26 2006, 00:20:44 UTC

Crossovers and rareslash, yes. If you want to see me choke, I've always said, just give me a nice domestic JuC with chocolate and roses. "What, no tornadoes?" No. "Can one of them secretly be a spy?" Nope. "A werewolf?" No. "How about a threesome with Sting?" Nuh uh. "Well...shit."

Thank you so, so much for letting me know you liked it. Often summaries are my favorite things to read, like movie previews that trump the films themselves. Your brain fills things in better than the author can write them. This one I just loved writing, because it tantalized my brain too--how they'd look together, how their personalities would mesh ( ... )

nopseud April 26 2006, 01:15:51 UTC

Your brain fills things in better than the author can write them.

And this one has so much going on in it, and so much in the world around the main protagonists too. They're both surrounded and supported by people who'd be horrified by the whole thing. Like, I can just imagine the respective fan boards the morning after the concert appearance, and the total meltdown ensuing. And even, right at the (new) beginning, some people involved with the charity event would want to refuse the painting because of the bad press it will stir up, and I can imagine Brian being very calm but firm and saying, no, we'll take it. (I wish I'd saved the quotes from when his Christian album was announced and someone was denouncing Backstreet as tools of Satan.)

Although I dispute the 'better than the author can write them'. I'm pretty sure your brain would fill it in much better than mine.

About things not being what they seem, or being exactly what they seem but what no one expects or understands. Maybe he wants to show Brian up as a hypocrite, in ( ... )

xoverau April 28 2006, 14:08:09 UTC

That first part, that's what I love to explore. I love bringing two totally different people, with different views and backgrounds and friends, together. The ramifications of an "odd" pairing are so often neglected or avoided in fic, which I don't get--why put Peewee Herman with Robert Plant if you're not gonna talk about the big red chair? ...er, where was I going with this metaphor?

Oh! That's what I liked about writing Eminem back in the day. Saying, "here's the setup, now let's milk the bizarrity for all it's worth." Why plane off what makes the characters different to fit them together? I'd rather have fun with the contrast.

I disagree that your brain couldn't fill it in as well as mine, since a lot of your thinking up there gave me ideas. As often as I'm amazed to read a story that resembles something I've written or read elsewhere, I'm amazed at the totally new direction other writers and readers take from a central root ( ... )

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