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*Fandoms I'm familiar with: written on AO3 (expand full list), tagged on DW, or bookmarked on Delicious. (Yes, I know, I plan to switch to Pinboard eventually. Today is not that day.)
In other news, I had a job interview that went rather well, yesterday. Good bits: I would have time to go back to school and work towards my doctorate, it seems like I would be working with good people, and it comes with a nice four-bedroom house (with a garage, very necessary in that part of the world) from which I can walk to work. Bad bits: it is in Minnesota, i.e. half a continent away from either a) my home (West Coast) or b) the place where most of my friends are now (East Coast). Minnesota also gets very cold, which I can tolerate but don't like.
melannen
Let's play the Hypothetical Crossover game! Name any two (or more) fandoms you know I'm familiar with*, and I will tell you how I would, hypothetically**, cross them over!
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*Fandoms I'm familiar with: written on AO3 (expand full list), tagged on DW, or bookmarked on Delicious. (Yes, I know, I plan to switch to Pinboard eventually. Today is not that day.)
In other news, I had a job interview that went rather well, yesterday. Good bits: I would have time to go back to school and work towards my doctorate, it seems like I would be working with good people, and it comes with a nice four-bedroom house (with a garage, very necessary in that part of the world) from which I can walk to work. Bad bits: it is in Minnesota, i.e. half a continent away from either a) my home (West Coast) or b) the place where most of my friends are now (East Coast). Minnesota also gets very cold, which I can tolerate but don't like.
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Date: 2012-05-16 04:59 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-05-16 07:42 pm (UTC)From:However.
Superman's Return (and the effects of Luthor's insane plan) cause quite a lot of problems for the Bartlett White House. Besides the disaster relief work stuff, there's a lot of political fallout: why wasn't the government prepared for it? To which Josh takes umbrage, because regular natural disasters they can prepare for (that's what FEMA is for) but how the heck are they supposed to know what Superman's technology which he never talks about can do, and thus prepare for it falling into the hands of a madman? That Luthor got paroled was ... okay, that he's having problems with because Luthor was a Federal prisoner, and it happened on their watch, and there's really no way to spin it, and it's costing them a lot of political capital because the last thing anyone wants is an administration that's soft on the kind of crime that maniacal genius supervillains cause. CJ is frantically trying to spin things by pointing out how well the rebuilding is going, look at how much better FEMA is doing since Katrina! She'd love to do a photo op with Superman at the White House, but she's tried everything short of smoke signals and can't get ahold of him. (Also, she doubts he'd go for it since the only photos anyone can get of him are action shots, he doesn't stand still and smile for the camera.)
Sam loves Superman, and wants his autograph, and thinks the world is a better place for him. Toby doesn't like him, because he's got all that advanced technology that he could be using to cure diseases and build roads/infrastructure in poor areas, that sort of thing, and he thinks the best use of his time is to pull kittens out of trees and do things that (for the most part) humans can do for themselves? This conflict, plus the fact that the President is taking a kind of "wait and see" attitude, and the fact that the polling numbers on whether they should embrace Superman or keep their distance fluctuate by the day, makes coming out with a coherent message on Superman ... difficult. Sam and Toby's epic battles about whether Superman is good or should keep his nose in his own damned business are epic.
Leo just wishes Superman could have waited two years to come back, until they were out of office (and that Luthor could have waited that long to get out of jail and start his schemes, too). There's a lot of work to be done, with health care and the budget, but their agenda has been all shot to hell by this. They're reacting, not acting, and Leo hates it. His only consolation is that everyone else is, too.
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Date: 2012-05-16 05:08 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-05-16 07:25 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-05-16 06:07 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-05-16 07:55 pm (UTC)From:However. Emma Frost picked up on the telepathic message buried in the Archangel satellite network only slightly before the Master brought the Toclafane through. (She was furious with herself when she figured out what happened. If she'd had any idea that it was even possible, she would have spotted it--and done something about it--when it first happened.) The Master comes for her (and her powers don't work on the Toclafane), but not before she gets a telepathic message out to Charles. The Toclafane come for the School, but they've been expecting an attack their whole existence (except, a human attack not an alien attack), and with the forewarning they get most of the kids out. The Mutant Underground (X-men and Brotherhood both) help Martha in her journey around the world, and Mystique takes her form and does a lot of walking of her own. (She doesn't think it will work, but she's got to do something, and none of the Brotherhood's attacks have done a bit of good. Charles has had some success blocking people from the projected despair of the Archangel network, and hiding them from the Master's human spies and soldiers, but nobody can do much about the Toclafane. And when the Doctor finally confronts the Master, he is buoyed not only by human hopes, but by the full weight of every surviving telepath. (Led by Jean, because despite all their prior experience at hiding and going underground, the Toclafane get the Professor two months before the end. A wheelchair is just no good when you're on the run.)
Or, you know, the one where 11 and Amy and Rory end up in 1945 and the Doctor and the Howling Commandos go up against Hydra and their stolen alien tech while Amy and Rory and whats-her-face play spy games in which Rory is competent and uses his seeming-gormlessness to good effect, and the girls pwn everyone.
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Date: 2012-05-17 06:46 pm (UTC)From:Anyway, hearts & flowers for both plots.
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Date: 2012-05-17 07:01 pm (UTC)From:Actually, what it does is cause a traffic jam in my head as all of the Doctors, Companions, X-Men, and Avengers start talking.