2022-01-09 03:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
fleetsparrow
fleetsparrowYou know, I used to never really "get" fusions/crossovers. I think it's part of my "The food must never touch!!" brain that I've been working really hard to accept and change lately, but for the longest time I never could. Then I signed up for a Fusion/Crossover Exchange and that did it.
I think the biggest thing is that I never really had heard of "fusions" before. Sure, I'd loved AUs and playing with characters in different settings, but to me, crossovers were "Characters from X and Characters from Y meet" and that never worked for me. But when I discovered fusions, that changed things. Because I've always done fusions in my head for years.
Put Batman characters into the plot of The Thing From Another World? Absolutely.
The Yu-Gi-Oh characters trapped in space watching bad movies? Sign me the fuck up.
Sherlock Holmes and Co. with Pokemon partners? Hell yeah!
Somehow, though, that had never clicked in my brain as A Thing I Could Do in fandom.
Now, like, I'm so down for these, y'all don't even know.
I think the biggest thing is that I never really had heard of "fusions" before. Sure, I'd loved AUs and playing with characters in different settings, but to me, crossovers were "Characters from X and Characters from Y meet" and that never worked for me. But when I discovered fusions, that changed things. Because I've always done fusions in my head for years.
Put Batman characters into the plot of The Thing From Another World? Absolutely.
The Yu-Gi-Oh characters trapped in space watching bad movies? Sign me the fuck up.
Sherlock Holmes and Co. with Pokemon partners? Hell yeah!
Somehow, though, that had never clicked in my brain as A Thing I Could Do in fandom.
Now, like, I'm so down for these, y'all don't even know.
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