My Zangoose Is Named 'Potter'.

[rionaleonhart]

I don't feel remotely capable of writing X-Men: First Class fanfiction myself, but it's still quite fun to speculate on stupid AU ideas. Erik and Charles could found Hogwarts together! I thought at first that they might fall out because Erik was uncomfortable with accepting Muggle-born students, but of course that wouldn't work; this is presumably a world in which magic is a genetic mutation and has been hidden by individuals who believe themselves to be alone, so pure-bloodedness/half-bloodedness/Muggle-bornedness wouldn't really exist as concepts. Maybe Charles has dreams of a world in which magic and Muggles coexist, whilst Erik thinks they'll only survive if they create their own community unknown by Muggles, parallel but separate, much like the wizarding world in the actual Harry Potter books.

Also, there should be a Misfits crossover in which Charles recruits the ASBO Five and finds himself completely incapable of keeping them in line. Whenever Erik claims that mutants are superior beings, it's a struggle for Charles not to cast his eyes significantly in Nathan's direction.

It doesn't matter that I can't write any ideas I might have, really, because the best possible X-Men: First Class fic already exists. It is a Groundhog Day-inspired reworking of the beach scene, and it is over here, and it is amazing. Written by amazingly_me and highly recommended.

Also, I'm obviously totally biased about this because it was written for my prompt, but here is a fabulous little work of Erik/Raven(/Charles) smut in which Charles is a guilt-ridden psychic voyeur and it is everything I could have hoped for and more. (Bit selfconscious about confessing to the prompt, but I thought I'd better be honest about the possibility of bias; besides, if I'd posted the rec on its own there would have been the possibility of someone scrolling down to the OP's response and going 'hang on, this abundance of italics looks awfully familiar', and I'd rather unmask myself than be unmasked.)


Today, I spent quite some time searching for a male Seviper in Pokémon White just so I could nickname it 'Severus Snake'.

Well, 'Sev Snake', because sadly 'Severus Snake' wouldn't fit within the character limit. But you and I know what I meant.

I have absolutely no right to be this pleased with myself.

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[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Speaking of Groundhog's Day AUs, I'm thinking of compensating for my current inability to accomplish real writing by polishing up a Groundhog's Day-style Sherlock thing I banged out for an anon fic meme (some guy wants to translate it into Russian, so it might help to have a version that's actually edited at all). Has the idea been run into the ground?

[rionaleonhart]

There are never enough Groundhog Day AUs. Scientific fact.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

You'd probably also say it's a scientific fact that there aren't enough turned-into-a-unicorn AUs, though. (I am NOT turning Sherlock Holmes into a unicorn!)

[rionaleonhart]

If you wanted an unbiased opinion on the matter of 'crossover AU? good idea? bad idea?', you must have known that I would be a terrible person to ask. Do you have a link to the fic? Or would you rather polish it up first?

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Good point.

(I'm polishing. I should be able to put it up in a day or two, when I've done the math and everything to make sure it's the proper number of days. It's actually more like the Supernatural episode than the actual movie Groundhog's Day, in as much as it's day after day of "How do I keep him from getting killed?")