crossover recs

[ratcreature]

I updated my crossover recs page.

Old Country, by Astolat. Slash, Sam/Dean. (ca. 40,600 words)
Harry Potter/Supernatural
I don't read a lot of Wincest, but I think this crossover is a great read even if you prefer gen. It's a lot of fun, humor mixed into the angst and drama, and the merge of the Potterverse with SPN here works great, and I liked the take on goblins and their magic in particular.

Harvester of Eyes, by gwendolyngrace. Gen. (ca. 26,000 words)
Sandman/Supernatural
John Winchester hunts the Corinthian, meanwhile Sam and Dean get lost in the Dreaming. This crossover is a great blend of the two sources.

New Jersey Voodoo, by Rokeon. Gen. (ca. 1,020 words)
House/Stargate: Atlantis
This is short, but really funny. John has a relapse back towards Bug!John, starting with an at first innocuous rash and progressing from there, and House tries to diagnose.

Late Nite at the Sudzy Dudz, by Sarah Ellen. Gen. (ca. 3,500 words)
Supernatural/The X-Files
I have no idea how I could have missed reading this story for so long. This crossover is a lot of fun. I guess you could sum it up as "Mulder and Scully meet the Wincesters in a laundromat and talk about cattle mutilations." but the dialog is awesome and it made me laugh a lot, while still being plausible and in character within both series.

The Curious Incident of the Doc in the Night-time (part 2), by Taz. Gen. (ca. 2,920 words)
Highlander/House
House meets Methos in his morgue and is understandably curious. Snark ensues.

Comments

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

That Highlander/House crossover is hilarious, thanks for the rec. I haven't really been reading in either fandom for a while.

[ratcreature]

I'm always happy when I can point people to things they haven't seen yet.

I haven't really read any regular House fic (yet), since I only read in a fandom if I have watched at least some of the series, and I hadn't until recently. And I mostly know Highlander because for a while it was incredibly popular for crossovers in my main fandoms and I was passingly familiar, so I read those and then some HL fic by authors I enjoyed, but I was never really into it. Yet then last week I felt a wave of nostalgia for HL fic for some reason, and came across this xover too.

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

Heh. I watched Highlander, and I remember when there were all those The Sentinel crossovers. I've never really read House fic, and I kind of drifted away from watching the show after the first season.

[ratcreature]

My main problem with House is that it can't seem to decide whether it wants to be a drama or a farce and its mix of the two doesn't really work for me. Drama with some humor and snark is one thing, and I like that, but with House the whole set-up is clearly not like any kind of hospital could work, but engineered to give House funny and snarky character moments and dialog, so you can't take it seriously no matter how much you suspend disbelief. Yet it's not truly a farce-like comedy but has all this drama stuff, so to me the whole thing feels internally inconsistent and I can't really believe its universe.

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

Nods. Also it's a one-gimmack show. And while I do like House being an angry snarky asshat, and anything that promotes the idea that being nice isn't the same as being good...the characters aren't compelling enough to hold my attention when every week has the same plot: patient comes in, diagnostic flailing, cure or death.