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magibrainBack in 2007, for reasons which I'm sure made sense at the time, I got the idea to write a fic with Jack Harkness of Torchwood and Sam Tyler of Life on Mars in a bar together, and then furthermore to email it to rionaleonhart without explanation to see what she would do. As it turned out, because Riona is Riona (and because the fic was probably her fault in one way or another to begin with), she calmly beta'd it and sent it back.
That, I think, may have been throwing down the gauntlet.
Because there's something you have to understand about me, and that's that 70%* of my fiction writing is spite-based. A friend believes that I can't write slash? Here is the Doctor having sex with the Master. And also the TARDIS. Riona says a Silent Hill 2/House MD crossover where Chase is James Sunderland is the most frightening idea ever and she should not write it? I write it. Stargate SG-1 decides to be completely simplistic with issues of character death, the nature of identity, and memory? Here is 140,000 words deconstructing that by implication. And then there was the Silent Hill crossover meme, which was basically a (lighthearted, mutually-respectful, and mutually-gleeful) pissing contest with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jantalaimon over who could write the most, or weirdest, crossover drabblets with Silent Hill. (Among my proudest accomplishments: Winnie the Pooh, The Sims, and Tetris.)
*Completely arbitrary estimate
So I think there's a certain amount of archaeological evidence** to suggest that I started Damaged People purely to see what it would take to get Riona to go "What on earth are you doing, you crazy person?"
**Not in any way archaeological
Which is how I ended up writing what I call "A massively multifandom accidental epic following Sam Tyler (Life On Mars) and Jack Harkness (Doctor Who and Torchwood) on their misadventures, as they explore the galaxy, almost destroy some worlds, and barely save others."
How multifandom, and how epic?
Well, as of the time of this posting, I've written most of the first of a planned three arcs (1: Jack and Sam cavorting around the galaxy; 2: Series 1 of Torchwood, rewritten, expanded, and made more weird; 3: Sam Tyler saves the galaxy), and it's up to 100k words. And the thing's spawned a sequel. It's also up to 22 fandoms the last time I counted, and I keep shoving more in whenever I find a spare corner. (Lie To Me is on the waiting list, for example, and will be added as soon as a compatible plot comes up. Sherlock is in much the same position.) Among the fandoms I've managed to wedge in: Stargate: SG-1, Global Frequency, Pirates of the Caribbean, Google's April Fools jokes, Withnail and I, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Top Gear, and Cube 2: Hypercube.
The story is told mostly from Sam's perspective, with occasional dips into Jack's, so it's unintentionally organized so that if you're familiar with both series of Life on Mars and series one of Torchwood, you're generally only ever as confused as Sam is. Which, you know, can often be Rather Confused.
Anyway! I'm beginning the process of mirroring everything from its original home at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
damageverse to its parallel home at ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
damaged_people. If you're interested in my one grand voluntary foray into slash and multifandom crossovers, I invite you to take a look. It's wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey, occasionally extremely sketchy, ranges from pure gen to explicit with warnings and back again, and it will probably never be finished, but new stuff should keep appearing from time to time.
rionaleonhart without explanation to see what she would do. As it turned out, because Riona is Riona (and because the fic was probably her fault in one way or another to begin with), she calmly beta'd it and sent it back.That, I think, may have been throwing down the gauntlet.
Because there's something you have to understand about me, and that's that 70%* of my fiction writing is spite-based. A friend believes that I can't write slash? Here is the Doctor having sex with the Master. And also the TARDIS. Riona says a Silent Hill 2/House MD crossover where Chase is James Sunderland is the most frightening idea ever and she should not write it? I write it. Stargate SG-1 decides to be completely simplistic with issues of character death, the nature of identity, and memory? Here is 140,000 words deconstructing that by implication. And then there was the Silent Hill crossover meme, which was basically a (lighthearted, mutually-respectful, and mutually-gleeful) pissing contest with
jantalaimon over who could write the most, or weirdest, crossover drabblets with Silent Hill. (Among my proudest accomplishments: Winnie the Pooh, The Sims, and Tetris.)*Completely arbitrary estimate
So I think there's a certain amount of archaeological evidence** to suggest that I started Damaged People purely to see what it would take to get Riona to go "What on earth are you doing, you crazy person?"
**Not in any way archaeological
Which is how I ended up writing what I call "A massively multifandom accidental epic following Sam Tyler (Life On Mars) and Jack Harkness (Doctor Who and Torchwood) on their misadventures, as they explore the galaxy, almost destroy some worlds, and barely save others."
How multifandom, and how epic?
Well, as of the time of this posting, I've written most of the first of a planned three arcs (1: Jack and Sam cavorting around the galaxy; 2: Series 1 of Torchwood, rewritten, expanded, and made more weird; 3: Sam Tyler saves the galaxy), and it's up to 100k words. And the thing's spawned a sequel. It's also up to 22 fandoms the last time I counted, and I keep shoving more in whenever I find a spare corner. (Lie To Me is on the waiting list, for example, and will be added as soon as a compatible plot comes up. Sherlock is in much the same position.) Among the fandoms I've managed to wedge in: Stargate: SG-1, Global Frequency, Pirates of the Caribbean, Google's April Fools jokes, Withnail and I, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Top Gear, and Cube 2: Hypercube.
The story is told mostly from Sam's perspective, with occasional dips into Jack's, so it's unintentionally organized so that if you're familiar with both series of Life on Mars and series one of Torchwood, you're generally only ever as confused as Sam is. Which, you know, can often be Rather Confused.
Anyway! I'm beginning the process of mirroring everything from its original home at
damageverse to its parallel home at damaged_people. If you're interested in my one grand voluntary foray into slash and multifandom crossovers, I invite you to take a look. It's wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey, occasionally extremely sketchy, ranges from pure gen to explicit with warnings and back again, and it will probably never be finished, but new stuff should keep appearing from time to time.
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Date: 2011-12-25 12:04 am (UTC)...yeah, ridiculously pleased by this post. And now remembering that I'm pretty sure there are large chunks of DP I haven't read yet...
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Date: 2011-12-25 12:11 am (UTC)I worked out a way to get Burn Notice into one of the bits I'm working on now! In that I may have locked Gwen, Tosh, Fiona and Miranda Zero in a !tesseract. ...there's a story behind that one.
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Date: 2011-12-25 01:43 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-12-25 05:24 am (UTC)...at least it wasn't 10,000 words?
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Date: 2011-12-25 05:48 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-12-25 08:51 pm (UTC)Did you ever actually manage to get me to say that? I can't quite recall. In any case, Damaged People is the best and everyone should read it. I haven't managed to read Balance yet, but I'm looking forward to it immensely because anything featuring Balthier, Fran and Harkness together is going to be great; anything featuring those three and written by you is going to be amazing.
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Date: 2011-12-25 09:24 pm (UTC)Balance features less Fran and Balthier than it perhaps could have, but there's a decent amount of Sparrow in there and scads of Sam's maladjusted coping mechanisms. ...I'm purposely leaving most of the time set on the Strahl out form the DP/R "canon", because then there can be as much fic as people deem necessary in fanfic space and I never have to account for all that time. I'll probably do fanficspace-canonicity sketches at some point, because the five of them in a timeship together is just too good, but,
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Date: 2011-12-26 11:10 pm (UTC)*subbed*
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Date: 2011-12-26 11:33 pm (UTC)