As you can see, I’m horrible at naming things, including challenges/contest. 😛 But does that surprise anyone?
Rhetorical question…
For some reason, I really, really like crossovers. It’s always fun to see my favorite characters come together in a way they probably never will in real life. I honestly haven’t written one, unless you count the Avengers’ Isle series thing, but I’d like to, if I could come up with a good idea. For those of you who don’t know what a crossover is, it’s basically fan fiction combining two different universes, e.g. The Avengers/Chronicles of Narnia, or something more book-ish, like the Hobbit/The Hardy Boys. (BTW, the second one was a random, on the spot one I made up…)
So, on to the challenge/contest. Basically, you are to write a fan fiction crossover. (Duh… *facepalm*) Since I will be “judging”, the fandoms must be ones that I know, from movies or books that I’ve watched. I’ll give you a brief list. Pick two, or if you think of a different one you’d like to do, comment and ask. I can’t properly evaluate characters from movies and books I don’t know.
Here’s the list:
Movies
The Avengers (Please keep in mind that I haven’t watched Iron Man 1/2/3, The Incredible Hulk, Thor 2, or Cap 2. No spoilers for those, please. 😀 )
Finding Nemo
Frozen
Tangled
Brave
Toy Story 1/2/3
The Chronicles of Narnia
Night At The Museum 1/2/3
National Treasure 1/2
The Princess Bride
The Lego Movie (??? If you do this one, that will be at the top of my list to read. 😛 )
Books
The Sherlock Holmes stories/novels
The Bible (Please don’t feel obligated to do this one, but I would enjoy reading it all the same…)
Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew (These apparently qualify as one, although I do not agree…)
Dr. Seuss (Eh-he, eh-he… *imagines Avengers/Dr. Seuss crossover*… *dies laughing*)
Frankenstein
The Tale of Despereaux
The Word Changers
Indian in the Cupboard
*end “brief” list*
Ah, so now that we have that over with, we can continue. You do not have to do a book and a movie, I just wanted to provide plenty of choices. If you don’t see something you’d like to do, just ask?
Feel free to do multiple crossovers and submit all of them.
Speaking of submitting… After you finish writing your story, post it on your blog, if you have one (if you don’t, borrow a friend’s, or comment and ask me… hopefully I’ll think of a solution…). Then post a link in the comments here so that I can find your post. The deadline shall be… February *goes to see if it’s a leap year* 28th. That gives you a little over a month. If I don’t have any submissions, I’ll extended the deadline, reboot the contest, whatever.
Now, prizes. If you submit a crossover (or multiple ones 😉 ) you are automatically guaranteed a link/shoutout in the post on the deadline. I will pick the winner based on plot, level of difficulty (e.g., a Lego Movie/Avengers crossover would get more points than a Frozen/Tangled crossover), how close the characters are to the original, and probably a few other things I come up with… And the winner’s story will be posted on here, with the author’s permission.
Now, go start wr–
Wait, what? *whispers with invisible friend Bob* Bob here says I haven’t made this hard enough! He wants me to make it more fun! And what better way to do that than…
Add a twist!
Now, for the sake of your sanity, this twist won’t be required, but you’ll definitely earn some bonus points if you do it. 😉 So here’s the twist. To earn those special bonus points, you must include a quote from a third fandom (as in, not one of the two in your crossover). It must be one of these ten quotes:
- The Avengers: “So that’s what it does.”
- Finding Nemo: “I am a nice shark, not a mindless eating machine.”
- The Princess Bride: “You fell victim to one of the classic blunders – The most famous of which is ‘never get involved in a land war in Asia’ – but only slightly less well-known is this: ‘Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line’!” (Or if you would rather you can use “Anybody want a peanut?” or “Hello, my name is [insert character name]. You killed my father. Now prepare to die.”
- Tangled: “Frying pans! Who knew, right?”
- Frozen: “Oh, look at that! I’ve been impaled!” (Please don’t make this disgusting if you use it…)
- The Lego Movie: “A house divided against itself… would be better than this.”
- Night at the Museum: 1 – “Let’s do this, people! And… animals! And… weird faceless puppet creatures!” 2 – “You know, two words come to mind when I hear you talk. “Delusional” and “weirdo”. And if I had to say a third, “goofy.” Just goofy.” 3 – “What, have you never seen a gorgeous woman before… who could be a model if she didn’t love pizza so much.”
- National Treasure: 1 – “It’s a big blue-ish green man… with a strange-looking goatee… I’m guessing that’s significant.” 2 – “Sir, please dismount the banister.”
I stopped at eight because somehow I already had more than ten quotes… Go figure.
So, let’s recap, because that was long and rambling…
- Find two fandoms, and (optional) choose a quote to include.
- Write your crossover!
- Post your story on your blog (or someone else’s).
- Put a link to your story in the comments here.
- Repeat!
Please, please participate! The more participation, the more likely it will be that I’ll do this again! Have fun!
*not good at writing fanfic but really needs to do this*
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😀 I may have to try it out myself.
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I’ve never written a fanfic before, but this looks like a lot of fun :).
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Fanfics are always fun. I may have to try this myself, since I’ve never done a real crossover before. 😀
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I’ll give it a shot!
Out of curiosity, is there a dealine for posting these?
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February 28th. Although if I don’t get any submissions, I may or may not extend the deadline. We’ll just have to see. 😀
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I may try this as an excuse to write a Loki-meets-Elsa fanfic. 😀 We’ll see.
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Ooh, that would be fun! I kind of almost approve of that pairing, I just have a few reserves… 😛
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What kind of reserves?
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I’m just always wary about inter-fandom pairings, since they’re always ruined by their makers. *glares at Disney* And Elsa was just getting to be good… 😉
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You do realize this is more of a I-think-these-two-would-relate than a romantic thing, right? Because I’m feeling slightly worried about that now.
Just getting to be good?
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Ah, good. Because I’ve seen some romantic ones, and… yeah. 😛 Much better. Well, she was just starting to recover from her fear and all that, bringing back the good girl again.
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Heh. I do have two Loki ships, but neither involves Elsa. They’re too similar for that. *shrugs* And ok, yeah, I see what you’re saying.
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One of my friends is obsessed with Loki, so she made up her own character, based off of her, for a pairing… and apparently that’s made him “mellow”. Which just doesn’t work. 😛
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Um, no. Loki does not do “mellow”. He does “passive-aggressive”, “emotionally tortured”, “pretending-I-don’t-care”, and “actually-not-miserable-but-still-snarky”. Or that’s how he is in my head, basically.
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EXACTLY!!! That was my point to her. He may become nicer, but he can’t be mellow.
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This sounds hilarious and fun. XD …Of course, I’ve never tried a crossover. And I’ve only ever written three miniscule fanfics–one for Doctor Who, one for Thor/Loki, and one for a friend’s unpublished story… and the first two of those were based on dreams so there’s wasn’t even any creativity involved. XD So I sorta have no idea how. 😛
Also is it weird that the only things in your list that I haven’t seen/read are the Toy Story movies, the Lego Movie, Frankenstein, and The Indian in the Cupboard? o.o
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I’ve never written a crossover, either, except for the short one I wrote last night on the spot. 😛 I always find that it helps to just think of a quirk of a character, or something in their past. I’ll probably post my crossover today, as an example.
That’s hilarious!!! 😀 I just watched the Lego Movie last month. Frankenstein I read for British Lit, and I actually liked it, oddly enough, just not the ending, and Indian in the Cupboard just sounded interesting. 😛
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OOOH!!! “Sir, please dismount the banister.” And I know exactly how to use it! X-D
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XD I looooove that quote. Those movies had so many good quotes, I almost used the coconut quote, but that might have been too much. 😛 I can’t wait for someone to submit!!! 😀
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That quote just sounds so much like a whacked-out crazy version of Coulson, I had to use it! X-D
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Oooh, yes!!!! It’s perfect for that. I’m trying to think of another one to do, just don’t know what.
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X-D This is gonna be awesome!!!!
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….and apparently Mycroft Holmes is on the World Security Council. But yeah, that was actually not that unexpected. 😛
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Hm, now THAT is something I didn’t think of. Interesting… It’s not that unexpected, in fact, it was inspired by a mention of that in someone else’s fanfic. 😛
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SHERLOCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *cries*
*sneak attacks Sherlock* *hugs him* *gets pushed away* *hugs John, who is speechless* *hugs Steve* *runs off and hugs Gilan, who hugs back* I need more hugs! Hugs are fuel. ^_^
By the way, in the mind palace Tony told Sherlock that he looks like Loki. -_- Bah. Neither does Benedict Cumberbatch look like Tom Hiddleston.
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XD Goodness, Tony’s walking a thin line…
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Yup. I should probably warn Tony that unless he wants Pepper to hear all Sherlock’s deductions about what Tony’s been up to he should shut up 😛 I kind of want to hear all the deductions though 😛
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Record it and then say you’ll delete it, but don’t…
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*grins* Good idea!
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I might try and do this, if I’m not too busy with faithwriters. If i did it, I’d probably go for Lego Movie and Avengers (there are avengers lego sets).
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Ooh, that would be awesome! Do you have a faithwriters account?
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Yes, right here: http://www.faithwriters.com/member-profile.php?id=61719
Do you?
I got it for my birthday last year. It’s only a year long membership, so I’m making the most of it while I can. 🙂
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I do! I’ve got the free Silver membership. And now I am stalking you. 😀 Mine is
http://www.faithwriters.com/member-profile.php?id=66436
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Hey, cool! 🙂
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What is FaithWriters, exactly? It looks like a sort of professional networking/sharing tool.
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What I use it for mostly is the writing challenge. http://faithwriters.com/writing-challenge-intro.php
They give you a keyword, then you write something about it, and then there’s a contest for who they think handled the topic best. It’s really cool. 🙂
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I really enjoyed yours for Greed. It was great. With the free membership, though, you only get to do the Writing Challenge four times. Greed was my first one, I’ve been saving them for really good topics. 😉
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Thanks. 🙂 I did the same thing when I did the silver membership. I’m trying to pile up as many entries as I can while I’m still on so that when I leave I can make a short story and poem book.
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That’s a good idea! 😀
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Nice! I may have to check it out! 😀
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If you do, FIND ME!!! I’m C.B. Cook on there.
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Okay! 😀
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You should! 🙂
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😀
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It pretty much is. It’s mostly for adults, I think, but it’s a way for Christian writers to promote themselves and for readers to find good Christian writing. It also has some handy tools for promoting ebooks once you get published. 😀
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Ah! That’s great. 🙂 I need to find more tools like this to self-promote so I can actually get published someday 🙂
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Me too. I may be publishing one of my novellas soon, which would be awesome. Apparently begging for book reviews, social media, and blogging are good ways to promote books… XD
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WHEEE!!!!!!!
Yeah, people like one’s online presence to have personality rather than just shamelessly trying to sell something. ;-P
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Yeah, I know. It’s easier to have a personality online than in real life… XD
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*sigh* *cries*
Real life sucks right now.
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Oh, you have no idea. Apparently I’m a superhuman… *rolls eyes*
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Really? Oh, I want to hear that story… X-D
My superpower isn’t all that awesome. I can tell things apart by smell (salt and sugar and iodized salt from regular salt, even) and I always know to listen for the “whump-whump-whump” to know when the soft serve machine is empty. Other than that… boring.
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Oh, it’s not anything like that. Just by the amount of work I now have piled on me, people seem to think I’m a superhuman. XD
I’m pretty good at recognizing voices, like voice actors and such, and I know a little body language…
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Oh, I know what you mean. *cries quietly*
Same here. I often have trouble recognizing people if I can’t hear them talk–I guess it’s a symptom of being shortsighted, even if my glasses mostly correct it. It’s just that so many actors look the same to me, it’s easier to identify them by their voices… ;-P
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Yesss! I have trouble with that too. I saw a clip from the Hobbit (which I haven’t watched) and I heard Bilbo before I saw him, and I said “Dr. Watson???” XD
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IKR?! X-P THAT’S SO AWESOME. Also, I want to hug him! Doctor Watson, I mean, not necessarily the actor… that would be creepy 0_0
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“Martin Freeman, get over here and give me a hug!” XD
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I. Would. Die.
I hug my favorite characters all the time in my imagination….
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*cough* I totally don’t do that… XD
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Yes you do! 😛
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Yeah… You’re right…
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X-P Yup. I am.
What name would you prefer to go by as a Brooklyn Project contributor, and would you rather that I linked to your blog at Proverbs31teen or World of the Writer???
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Hm… For name, you can do C.B. Cook. And I guess the World of the Writer.
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Okay! 😀 I’ll add you to the list. 😉
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Yay! 😀
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😀 😀 😀
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Not sure how this is going to work, but I do have a post idea already. 😀
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YAY! 😀
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OH THAT WOULD BE SO AWESOME WRITE IT WRITE IT WRITE IT! *flails uncontrollably* *goes to stalk you on your blog*
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okay, okay! 😛
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YAY!!! *hugs you* 😛
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*grin* *hugs back*
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Also, I kind of want to see what would happen if Lego!Captain America smacked Lego!Superman in the head with his shield… “OW! What was that for?!” “Sorry! Oh, wait, why did that hurt? We’re all made of this plastic ABS…” “What?! You mean your shield isn’t really vibranium?!” “Umm… no… not really…” X-P
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“It’s plastic vibranium, Supes.” 😛
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X-P BEST ONE EVAR!!!
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haha! totally!
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X-D I think it’s just the sweetest thing the way Steve says “Sorry!” Too cute! Like kittens and bunnies and… 😛 People can make fun of me all they like for calling a big tough superhero adorable; they don’t know Cap! 😛
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I know. He’s my favorite too. 🙂 *hugs cap*
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Irony–Despite having been born about half a century before everyone else, Steve’s actually the youngest Avenger. Even Natasha’s two years older.
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Woah, that’s weird.
I finished my faithwriters thing and I’m starting on the story, just letting you know. 🙂
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WOOO!!!! 😀 I can’t wait to read it. Hopefully I’ll get some others, soon, too. 😉
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🙂
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Yup.
😀 YayyYYYyyyyyy!Y! 😀
Whoops, Random Caps Lock Attacks! 😛
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I’ve had those problems before! XD
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IKR?! 😛
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Haha. 😛 I’ll post the link when I finish it!
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😀 I can’t wait!
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Agreed! 😀
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^_^
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Yeah, Cap IS kind of adorable… 😀
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He’s so precious! :-3 He’s like a little puppy dog… X-P
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*cough* If you knew my dog…
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My dog used to jump all over us when he was hungry. 😛 So I guess the metaphor isn’t perfect. (Tony Stark is like a cat. Proud, playing to the crowd, and particular. 😛 )
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Now that is a good comparison. My dog likes to lay in very inappropriate positions… and she’s very disobedient.
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Ahhh… our dog used to run away at any opportunity. 😛
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Our dog might run away, but I have a feeling she’d be back pretty quick. She loves my dad. 😛
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Awww! :-3
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And whenever it’s time to clean up the yard *cough* she becomes our dog…
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Ewwww!
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Whew. Here’s your story: https://writefury.wordpress.com/2015/02/28/the-new-world/
I love skimming deadlines. 😛
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