I’ve never been a huge fan of fanfic. I understand the appeal, and I know there IS such a thing as “good fanfic.” (Although, in my experience, you weed through an awful lot of dross before you find the gold. And DAMN, but there are a lot of people that seem to use it as a platform for writing their own amateur porn and rape fantasies. But I digress….)
Thanks to the joys of trending topics and radars, I got to play with The Terrible Crossover Fanficion Idea Generator. (I will studiously ignore the joke, here, about “all” fanfic crossovers being terrible – that’s just too easy.) This little website toy is highly amusing, and seems to be drawing from a lot of truly…uh, ummm….unique sources to make mashups like you’d never have dreamed could be mashed, before. You get two wildly varied sources to draw from, and an odd plot device to spin your story around. You can get a new mash if the one initially offered doesn’t suit you (as a note, even this thing offered a rape story as the first plot device it proffered to me – with a crossover between Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, and the National Football League – insert joke, HERE.)
So go, have some fun, spin some crossovers and consider sharing the truly inspired ones, too. As for mine, as shown here, it does leave me to decide which version of the source material I’d draw upon – Tom Clancy’s original Splinter Cell idea, the videogame or from the yet to be released film. Then there’s Phantom of the Opera; Gaston Leroux’s original novel; Sir Webber’s amazing musical or any of a million (okay, maybe it just feels like that many) movie send ups of the novel and the musical.
If you elected to draw from the video game and the musical, could you then, legitimately, place yourself in your fanfic, since you’re the player behind the pixels on your screen? And hey, if you’re going for high drama, and amazing visuals, I think you must pull from the musical. And…losing one’s virginity as the plot device. Wow…even the website, ultimately, just wants to create amateur porn.

article republished from The Squee Spot, with permission