Magic and Mayhem! (Or, crossover fics in which things veer slightly from reality as we know it.)

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*screeches in late as usual*

Um. Hi! Let's all just pretend that it's Monday. shall we? As in last Monday, when I started writing this post.

I'm omphale23, and for whatever crazy reason the mods have entrusted me with a whole week of reccing! Which I will now condense to three days, because that's the sort of thing I do. I'm quirky. People get used to it. I'm told it can sometimes be endearing, although I'm pretty sure that's not the adjective that first comes to mind.

Ahem.

My theme, because I always have a theme, is crossover fic. It was originally going to be unreliable narrators, but it turns out I already did that post somewhere else, and so instead I bring you…fantastic fics that feature our favorite characters interacting with other fantastic fandoms.

(For the record? That was six words starting with F. Which is the sixth letter of the alphabet. That banging you hear is the sound of slidellra headdesking repeatedly and then defriending me.)

Anyway. Crossovers! Because while it's wonderful to see our boys (and girls) hanging out in Chicago or Canada, or Vegas (well, maybe not Vegas, what with the whole Mob thing. How about Boise, instead?) it's also awesome when they get to go other places and live other lives and maybe even have wacky conversations with other characters. I love a good crossover, and I even sometimes love a bad one. You should, too!

(I make no promises that Sentinel fic will not appear somewhere this week. For I am weak, and have been known to go for the cheap thrill of kidnapping and magical moose.)

Up first, though, are some stories that feature characters coming to visit the Mountie and his Ray(s) on their home turf. For whatever reason, they bring rather a lot of magic and mayhem and mystery along for the ride.


1. The Dresden Files

Harry Dresden. Angsty. Handsome. Well-intentioned.

He carries a hockey stick, is a cranky police consultant, and lives in Chicago. Harry, who certainly doesn't remind me of a character with the initials BF or of anyone named Ray, is a wizard with a tendency to get involved in very weird situations.

Oh, and he's being haunted by an advice-giving ghost named Bob.


Love Spell, by sam80853. F/K, R.


( In which someone casts a spell on Fraser )

2. HP Lovecraft, who is a person and not a fandom. Possibly he's both.

He wrote about monsters and gods and the universe and horror and the fundamental inexplicableness of almost everything we can imagine, and a few things we can't. He wrote about evil from times so long ago that we can't remember them, and fate. He was, on many occasions, a racist, classist, misogynist prat. Also, The Mountain Goats wrote a song about him.

And yet below the cut you will find some funny, funny apocalyptic shenanigans.


In the Sewers He Lies Dreaming, by spuffyduds. No pairing, R.


( In which Ray and Fraser meet a monster. )

3. Newford.

Which, again, is not so much a fandom as it is an imaginary place in which very strange things are commonplace. It is either American or Canadian or possibly neither and both, and was invented by Charles de Lint. For reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture, several of Newford's inhabitants are currently in a rundown hotel that may or may not be in Chicago.

It totally makes sense in context.


O'Leary's Hotel, by J Hardin. F/K, PG.


( In which there is violence, and also healing. )

Right. That should get you started. I'll be back tomorrow (Er. Later today) with another set. They might feature exotic locales and robots. Or Jack Harkness.

Guitars and Lederhosen (Or, Fics in which People Find Themselves Where They Ought Not to Be.)

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Hi! I'm back again, bringing three new fandoms interacting with our favorite magical-realistic cross-border comedy-drama cop show.

Say that one five times fast.


1. Torchwood and Doctor Who.

Welcome to two overlapping fandoms that are well-nigh inescapable in the Land of LJ. Featuring a Doctor (name withheld), his companion(s), a super-secret alien-fighting subterranean organization, and an intergalactic con man named Jack. And a box that, like Fraser's utility pouch, is bigger on the inside.

There are no talking wolves, although there have been several kinds of aliens disguised as ghosts, real faeries, dinosaurs, a running joke about bananas, clockwork robots, zombies in gas masks, and a pig in a spacesuit.

Not all at once. Well, not all in the same episode, at least. Other than the robots and the banana jokes. And the zombies and the banana jokes.


Fries with That?, by buzzylittleb. Kowalski/Jack Harkness, not-G. Nothing with Jack Harkness is ever rated G.


( In which Jack Harkness arrives in the Windy City on a cold night. Wearing leather hotpants. )

2. Hard Core Logo

The first of the C6D Crossover recs, I doubt that HCL needs any introduction around here.


Northern Comfort, by Kellie Matthews. Fraser/Billy Tallent, NC-17. F/K sequel, NC-17, HERE.


( In which Fraser meets a strangely familiar guitarist )

3. Sandman

Those of you who pay attention know that I have an enormous love for certain comics and graphic novels. The Crow, V for Vendetta, The Middleman. And, of course, Sandman. I would give nearly anything for a good Middleman/dS crossover. I am not above bribery and the promise of sexual favors, if that's what it takes.

Right, then. Moving along.

I dressed up as Death for Halloween. More than once. In different decades. And I maybe memorized substantial pieces of multiple stories by Mr. Gaiman during my misspent youth. I contemplated with complete sincerity having the Endless tattooed along my spine.

All of which is offered as the reason that I love this tiny ficlet as if it were the most magnificent of multi-chapter epics. It has the tone and feel of my favorite story of all time, a La Femme Nikita fic that I lost somehow and still someday hope to find again.


Voices Prophetic and Patient, by nifra_idril (website). Gen, G.


( In which there is a conversation. )

So that's your second set of Crossover Fics Loved by Omphale. Stay tuned for tomorrow's set, in which we visit new planets and fight crime and angry geese and Dief Does Not Approve of Events.