[ SECRET POST #2334 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2334 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Jesus Christ Superstar]


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[Torvill and Dean]


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[Conan O'Brien]


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11. http://i.imgur.com/eBIFfE1.jpg
[linked for gore, video game]


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12. [SPOILERS for Resident Evil, Gears of War, Red Dead Redemption, The Walking Dead and Jonah Hex]



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13. [SPOILERS for Iron Man 3]



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14. [WARNING for suicide]

[Hetalia]


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Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 1- broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

01. http://i.imgur.com/jVWv7qO.png

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know. I used to do that (especially with urban fantasy) a lot more than I do now... I feel like now the interesting thing for me has been figuring out the most graceful way to get things to crossover, the way to combine two canons without doing damage to either - and that gets exponentially harder with multiple universes, unless it's something totally mundane like crime procedurals. So you inevitably get a ton of kludge in there and I just don't like that. It's not elegant. It's cool to have a ton of things in the same universe but you just can't make them fit well enough for my liking, usually. Inconsistencies get harder and harder to paper over.

But of course there's nothing wrong with it, different strokes and all that.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm feeling a little dumb here but I'm just not getting what this secret is saying. Can anyone try and explain it to me?

[(Anonymous)]

Basically the OP is saying that they feel like they're the only one who likes to put a lot of series into the same cross-over. [At least, that's how I'm reading it.]

[(Anonymous)]

I used to do that SO MUCH. I still do it in my head.

I bitch about other people doing it, but I think I'd object less if they didn't use giant portmanteau crossover names...

[cloud_riven]

I think the most crossovery I get is connecting and picturing shows on CBS all taking place in the same universe. Medium and Person of Interest too. Trying to work things from too many different mediums doesn't work for me so much tbh.

Also, this secret is weirdly pretty and organized looking.

[(Anonymous)]

I love doing this. It's cool that they've already tied the NCISs and Hawaii 5-0 into the same canon, but it would be great to see Criminal Minds get into the fun someday. (PoI and Medium are fun to think about, but they both have broader implications in their premises that you then have to work into the other series' canon.)

[(Anonymous)]

You are not alone. I imagined myself a hub world that connects almost every video game and TV show I enjoy. I love thinking about how all the different characters would interact with each other.

[(Anonymous)]

I can only manage this if we're going the 'interdimensional bar' route, pulling characters outside their canons to meet in some random nexus bar somewhere at the end of the multiverse. Doesn't have to be a bar, can be a mad old adventure world or whatever, just pulling my favourite characters in for some shared fun.

But a fully-fledged crossover, no. Trying to integrate more than two fictional worlds at once, particular since I like a lot of genre canons which usually have very divergent rules once you get down to details, is way too difficult to do cleanly and well.

TL;DR I can do this purely with characters, removing them to another world/continuity altogether and letting them play, but I can't do it with canons.

[(Anonymous)]

I just pretend they're part of Kingdom Hearts--it's a crossover videogame to start with (Disney and SquareEnix) so it's super easy to use the canon set up to cross over all the fandoms.

[(Anonymous)]

I used to do this, but then I realized that they're all already part of Young Wizards canon (and Heinlein's world-as-myth canon too) so I just have to figure out who's taken the wizard's oath and which of them have read fanfic about the others and s'all good.

[(Anonymous)]

When I get bored (and I have two hours' worth of commute every day, so I get very bored), sometimes I play "How'd they get on the Starship Enterprise?" As a result, I have coherent and reasonably canon-compliant explanations for a ST/Prototype/Assassin's Creed/Doom Movie/Catherine/Homestuck crossover that nobody but me will ever see, because I can't come up with a better reason for said crossover than "uhh... they fight space zombies?"

So yeah, I guess you're not alone.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm still stuck on "fluctuating crossover mind-world"
I guess this is one of those things that makes sense if your mind works like that, because I have no idea what the fuck that means but it looks like other people do.

[(Anonymous)]

It's a world that the person creates in their head where their favorite canons overlap and coexists, possibly based on connections they've drawn from each work.

And I'm not the OP, but I can't imagine my mind not working like that. It just does it, and it's fun.

[riddian]

You are not alone. I've only managed to squish five together before it got too complicated to manage though.

[(Anonymous)]

Dude, I've been doing that for years, but with non-anime fandom. And I did with several of those SuperWhoAvenge[insert fandom here]Lock fandoms before that became a thing. There's nothing wrong with that---in fact, crossover possibilities are one of my favorite things about fandom. Some people are just weirdly touchy about that stuff, and I have no idea why.

[(Anonymous)]

As someone else mentioned, I can do it if I pull the characters from their worlds. That's one of the things I like about playing mafia, getting to see a bunch of random characters from random fandoms interact.

If I'm crossing over actual worlds, though, then I generally can only use a couple/few different canons, as I need them to intersect believably in my mind.

question for op

[(Anonymous)]

what program did you use to make this? it's such a neat, concise way to display interconnected information

Re: question for op

[(Anonymous)]

Just plain old photoshop CS5 that I cracked.

[pts]

This is a great-looking secret.

And, my favorite fanworks of all time are enormous sprawling ridiculous crossover epics. There's almost nothing I like better, in fandom, than a ridiculous crossover that the author manages to pull off.

So you shouldn't feel bad about this, is my point.

[(Anonymous)]

yeah, I do this too, except the part with the blatant self-insert. I usually connect everything I've ever read (even if I didn't like it). I have a lot of crossover OTPs.

[netbug009]

I don't mind big crossovers. I just think most of them are done REALLY horribly because the author doesn't try to explain the various worlds, somehow expecting every reader to follow the same 20 fandoms they do.