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Fandoms that do not work with other fandoms.


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My sister and I were talking about fandoms that cannot realistically work out with another fandom.

Like for example: Harry Potter and Twilight. My sister talked about a girl who was trying to write a Hermione becoming a Vampire and still being friends with Remus Lupin. My sis got her to back off from that idea as Werewolves are the sole creature that could kill a Vampire and there is no way that Lupin would permit Hermione to live if she was a Vampire.

And another fandom pairing that is not possible at all: Bleach and Harry Potter. Soul reapers are like ghosts, they cannot be seen unless you have the ability to see ghosts which I doubt any of the characters in Harry Potter books can see. The very same girl that my sister got to back away doing a HP/Twilight crossover tried to do it with Bleach/HP.

So what other fandoms you have seen that shouldn't have even been paired up with another fandom?

Beth

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I'm not going to argue that there are some crossovers that beg to never meet (Twilight / Muppets would be right up there with Sin City / Teletubbies) . . . but a (hopefully, reasonably) talented writer can take two seemingly unrelated sets of books or movies and cross them into something interesting and palatable if they have good writing talent and a proficient imagination. I've actually seen Star Wars crossed with Leave It To Beaver done WELL, but by an extraordinarily talented writer.

Crossovers in general get a terrible wrap because many canon bible beaters think no one has the right to pollute the pristine little imaginary worlds some writer was gracious enough to create for them - gee - that's too bad (and tough shit). I'd much rather see one well done crossover than hmmmm . . . FIVE HUNDRED more Twilight one shot suck faces . . . or FIFTY more Southern Vampire Series Eric / Sookie have the "talk" scenerios . . . or any more poorly written Haldir / Glorfindel / insert favorite elf's name here fucked someone up the ass slash that was attempted by someone who's probably never had sex before and wouldn't honestly know what a realistic orgasm or a well described blow job was if they were given a lifetime subscription to a porn channel :cry:

I personally like crossovers, and I'm not ashamed to say that. I read them - and I write them - and I write them about vampires too, although MY vampires are real bloodsucking disembowling types who do NOT sparkle - ever. (Perhaps in my next crossover I'll send some over to the meet up with the sparkley ones . . . bet I could stop that scintillating nonsense!)

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I personally like crossovers, and I'm not ashamed to say that.

Nor should you be. The essence of fanfiction is the ability to show you understand the characters, the world of a fandom well enough to manipulate it in the story you're crafting. A crossover, done right, demonstrates a deep understanding of more than one fandom.

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Fandoms That Should Never Touch

Twilight/Anything - This even goes for Twilight/The Host (the latter is also by Stephenie Meyer). It's never done well. Never.

Avatar: TLA/Anything - It's an AU historical psuedo-magical fantasy saga. I can't think of one other fandom that is remotely compatible with it (that would be believeable).

Most SitComs/Non-SitComs - The unique structure of sitcoms makes decently crossing over with a non-sitcom difficult. Most authors can't pull it off.

Dark-and-angsty-live-action-show/happy-and-funny-animated-show - If you can't see why this doesn't work out, you're not old enough to write fanfiction.

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I'm not going to argue that there are some crossovers that beg to never meet (Twilight / Muppets would be right up there with Sin City / Teletubbies) . . . but a (hopefully, reasonably) talented writer can take two seemingly unrelated sets of books or movies and cross them into something interesting and palatable if they have good writing talent and a proficient imagination. I've actually seen Star Wars crossed with Leave It To Beaver done WELL, but by an extraordinarily talented writer.

Crossovers in general get a terrible wrap because many canon bible beaters think no one has the right to pollute the pristine little imaginary worlds some writer was gracious enough to create for them - gee - that's too bad (and tough shit). I'd much rather see one well done crossover than hmmmm . . . FIVE HUNDRED more Twilight one shot suck faces . . . or FIFTY more Southern Vampire Series Eric / Sookie have the "talk" scenerios . . . or any more poorly written Haldir / Glorfindel / insert favorite elf's name here fucked someone up the ass slash that was attempted by someone who's probably never had sex before and wouldn't honestly know what a realistic orgasm or a well described blow job was if they were given a lifetime subscription to a porn channel B)

I personally like crossovers, and I'm not ashamed to say that. I read them - and I write them - and I write them about vampires too, although MY vampires are real bloodsucking disembowling types who do NOT sparkle - ever. (Perhaps in my next crossover I'll send some over to the meet up with the sparkley ones . . . bet I could stop that scintillating nonsense!)

I agree. A truly talented writer can find some way to join the two crossovers. As the saying goes, where there's a will there's a way. Now, Just because I think it CAN be tastefully done, does not mean I think that ANY crossovers should be done by a novice writer that can not articulate the details efficiently and has not ironed out the details of HOW the cross over works.

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To be honest I don't really hate crossovers but they scare me. I have read only 3 good crossover fics and 1 Great one.

Personally, I'm working on two myself. A Bleach/Sex Therapist oneshot and a Bleach/Descendants of Darkness fic.

Any Harry Potter/Fullmetal Alchemist/InuYasha/Naruto/Bleach/Gundam Wing crossovers (or variations) are a no in my book.

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hahahaha this is true. As much as I am a fan of the series Twilight is in it's own world, and is completely unrealistic.

Undead vampires in general are unrealistic.

I like all vampires :)

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There is a Harry Potter/Star Wars crossover somewhere in the archive (Harry Potter section). My brain hurt even trying to come up with that conept :)

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While moving stories around in the buffy subdomain (and I sorted crossovers as well), came across a BtVS/InuYasha one. Sorry, animated characters with real people just doesn't work.

Who Shot Roger Rabbit?

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