Trabia Garden

Now that two of my friends are writing (at least) six-way crossovers, I feel terribly disappointed in myself. I love and adore crossovers, but I don't think I've ever written a full-length one that incorporated more than two fandoms. That's shameful. It really is.

This insecurity about my position as That Crossover Girl means that if I ever manage to find a way of making a House/Scrubs/Harry Potter/Britain's Got Talent/Kingdom Hearts/Pokémon/Pirates of the Caribbean/Top Gear/Doctor Who/Life on Mars/Sherlock Holmes/Silent Hill/Torchwood/The Real Hustle/Final Fantasy VIII/Final Fantasy X/Final Fantasy XII crossover work, you're all going to be in trouble.

It couldn't be too difficult, could it? After all, Doctor Who has an Instant Crossover Device built in. 'The Doctor, feeling lonely, had decided to find out just how many companions the TARDIS could hold...'

All right, it's an utterly rubbish premise. I'll have to wait until a better one comes along. You're safe for now.

(The Real Hustle team are the Doctor's companions until, due to an unexpected attack by Monstro, the flying space whale, he is forced to drop them in 1973. They survive by working cons and eventually find themselves being pursued by a certain Mancunian police department...)

By the way, both dracothelizard and draegonhawke's goodness-knows-how-many-way crossovers are bloody amazing. I can't wait until they're both finished so I can point you over to them and we can all judge which is the more insane. In the meantime, why not try to think of an outline for a crossover involving every one of your fandoms? (MY METHODS FOR ENCOURAGING MORE RIDICULOUS-NUMBER-OF-FANDOMS CROSSOVERS ARE BRILLIANT AND SUBTLE.)

Oh, good Lord, draegonhawke, I didn't get you anything! Thank you so much! Can I do anything for you? Is there anything you'd really like me to have a go at writing?

So much icon space all of a sudden! I'd say 'I have no idea what I'll do with it all', but I quickly learnt when the space for free users went from three to six that the number of userpics you need is always exactly one more than the number of spaces you have, so I have no doubt that I'll soon be going 'argh! where did all my icon slots go?'

In other news, this is a general cry for people to write, er, James May/James Norrington fanfiction, because dracothelizard has managed to get me hooked on the pairing with her unspeakably wonderful 'five Jameses in Silent Hill' work-in-progress. Come on! They would be gloriously sarcastic at each other and at those they associate with, and Clarkson and Norrington would argue constantly, and it is touching and adorable in an extremely odd way.

Well, yes, May is a real-life modern-day motoring journalist and Norrington is a fictional eighteenth-century Commodore, so it may not be the most logical of pairings, but I would say that it is a fairly strong candidate for most awesome.

(EDIT: Oh, hang on, there's a new year, isn't there? I didn't really notice, because I've been thinking that 2006 was 2007 since, er, June. I ask people, in perfect seriousness, 'what year is it?' on a fairly regular basis.

Anyway. Happy New Year!)

Reasons dracothelizard Is Ridiculously Awesome, Number God Knows What By Now:

She has been sending me snippets of a House/Scrubs/Top Gear three-way crossover.

I want us all to take a moment to reflect on what an absolutely fantastic concept that is. Seriously, I know I say 'BEST THING EVER' quite a lot, but I'm not sure that I'll be able to any more now that I have come across something that clearly actually is the best thing ever.

It has House being irritatingly mysterious about James May's illness! It has Carla defeating Clarkson utterly! It has Dr. Cox becoming more and more irritated by the Top Gear trio and resenting Dr. Wilson's popularity! It has Hammond/Dorian, of all the mad adorable hair-product-saturated pairings, starting when they bond over their love of ridiculous antics and gurney-racing (apparently the British term for a gurney is a 'trolley'! I never knew that. THIS IS WHAT COMES OF WATCHING AMERICAN HOSPITAL SHOWS: I BETRAY MY MOTHER TONGUE. Thank you, Wikipedia, but as 'trolley-racing' immediately makes me think of racing in shopping trolleys I think I'm going to have to stick with 'gurney' for now)! You want to read it already, don't you?

YES, I KNOW THAT THIS ENTRY CONSISTS ENTIRELY OF FANGIRLING A PERSON ON MY FRIENDSLIST, BUT SHE DESERVES IT.

This means that Silent Hill is the only one of the Insane Crossover Fandoms (Silent Hill, Doctor Who, House, Scrubs and, inexplicably, Top Gear) that hasn't been properly crossed over with Top Gear yet. OBVIOUSLY THIS MUST BE RECTIFIED, BUT ALAS I DO NOT KNOW HOW. There's still no House/Doctor Who crossover, either - at least, not that I know of. But all the other combinations have been written, which is fantastic and also insane.