Aubrey and Maturin gen, crossover-fusion with Temeraire, short story. Captain Aubrey and Dr. Maturin meet Captain Laurence and Temeraire. I love the way this is written, which seems very true to both sources, although I suppose that in a true crossed-over world, Jack and Stephen would already be somewhat familiar with dragons and their riders.
Firefly/Jane Eyre fusion-pastiche-parody, Jayne/Rochester (and really, Jayne/lots of other characters). The great novel Jayne Eyre comes to life before your gorram eyes. A fourth-wall-optional story in which Jayne from Firefly grumpily assumes the title role. Jayne is spot-on perfect, the Bronte characters adapt well, and the narrator is perhaps my favorite character of all.
Don’t be dismayed by the seven chapters - they’re all very short. Read the first two, at least, and I promise you’ll be hooked. Not to mention laughing out loud. You probably do need to have at least a passing acquaintance with both Firefly (or Serenity) and Jane Eyre (book or movie) to fully enjoy the story.
Oh, fine, have an excerpt:
“I have decided to send you away,” Aunt Reed said imperiously. “You are going to school.”
“School?” Jayne replied as though someone had trodden upon his toes. “What you tryin’ to do? Kill me?”
“Yes, actually,” Aunt Reed muttered under her breath. “You shall repair at once to Lowood, from whence I hope I shall never have the undesirious result of seeing you more, young Jayne Eyre.”
“You people sure do like speechifying with the big words,” Jayne said, stomping up the stairs to pack his simple bag of effects, including his dresses, his pantalettes, and his doll.
“I ain’t got no doll!”
It says you do in the book.
“Hell with the book!”
Fine. No doll. The next morning, his cheek unkissed and his kinspeople still happily asleep in their finely draped beds, Jayne boarded a carriage to be transported away to Lowood school, a place renowned for its rampaging bouts of typhus, consumption, and chillblains.
“Does my coach get robbed by a gang of desperate outlaws?”
It’s not that sort of coach.
“Well, it woulda been more interestin’ if it were.”
Sorry, dearheart. Jayne’s coach sped through the misty countryside of England, off to unknown places, where he should be faced with new trials and tribulations to make him prove the goodness within his heart was paramount to all obstacles.
“Narrator, I think you’re gonna be right unhappy with the outcome of that sentence.”
This is a faux trailer for a nonexistent movie: McKay and Sheppard do Ocean’s Eleven. Fabulous use of a wide variety of source material, and put together really well.
Fusion with the luminous film of the same name: Ray is an angel whose fascination with human life in general, and one human in particular, lead him to “fall” and become human. The language is exquisite, the pacing perfect, and the choices Nos made for the events of the story work beautifully. I especially adore Welsh, and more than that I will not say. I was teary-eyed with pure love and happiness at the end.
Aubrey/Maturin, NC17, AU. If this is a fusion with something I don’t recognize, it’s brilliant, and if it’s an original fusion I’m floored. It takes O’Brian’s world into a different direction in the same way the Temeraire series does (but with its own completely realized execution: swords and sorcery, and a complicated feudal/sexual structure), and as such it would be fabulous as original fic. The dialogue and characterizations are fabulous, the minor characters from the series welcome grounding in canon, and the plot nicely done with a punchy ending.
Sheppard (Flanigan) gen/het pastiche vid. (It’s hard to describe this with my predefined categories!) I guess you’d call this a constructed reality vid: Joe Flanigan as James Bond, set to the Bond theme (as used in Casino Royale), with clips from SGA, Thoughtcrimes, and other Flanigan appearances. The technical aspects are uneven - there are a few odd aspect-ratio blips, and some of the timing seems off to me - but the clip selection is extremely clever, and the effect is brilliant.
A fusion with Charles de Lint’s Newford series. After a confrontation with some goons, Fraser is beaten almost to death - and rescued by an odd group of women with unusual powers. It’s an interesting mix of Celtic mythology, streetwise Chicago, and the show’s canonical magical realism. Great original characters. And, um, I got a little weepy at the end.
SGA/Good Omens - I’d call it a sort of a pastiche. It’s really a Good Omens story starring Sheppard and McKay as Crowley and Aziraphale; the characterizations are beautifully clear, even though no names are used at all. My favorite bit is the almost throwaway parallel of Sheppard’s “black mark” and Crowley’s fall.