Award! + Quickie Qrossover

[beer_good_foamy]

So apparently I won something at wicked_awards. Specifically, Building Character won for Best Gen. Aw, shucks.

Thanks a lot to everyone involved, and congratulations to all the winners! Some great stuff there, go read now if you haven't already.

Also, just because I can, I have this idea of writing down a few bizarre or obscure crossovers that I could never make myself develop into anything longer. Here's one that people should at least be able to spot:

The Friendly Dark

Susie dreams of tigers, and wakes groaning. Now he's got her doing it. Hobbes is NOT REAL.

She keeps dreaming of tigers. She's heard about this. If you keep dreaming of someone, it means you're in love with them. And she so does not want to marry Calvin.

One day Calvin throws a snowball at her. She catches it in mid-air and sends it back to him hard enough to send him flying. She could swear the stuffed tiger sitting where he stood winks at her.

That night, she dreams of a tiger, and follows it into the desert landscape.

Comments

[snickfic]

Your crossover cracks me up but also is very intriguing. Slayer!Susie, eh? :D

[beer_good_foamy]

Thanks!

I'm half-tempted to continue this, tbh - Susie stopped being forever 6 years old in 1995, so she'd be around 14-15 by the end of s7... We'll see. :)

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I want to read that story!

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

I kind of do too. I'll leave it there for anyone who wants to continue it.

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

Oh, you used my two favorite cartoon characters! well done
Oops! And congrats on the award. :)

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks, on both counts!

[kikimay]

Congrats!

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks a lot!

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah! This makes perfect sense! Well done.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[rbfvid.livejournal.com]

Congrats!
And it's terrific crossover idea.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I'm not sure how well it'd work in a longer fic. I just thought about the timeline and realised that if Susie is 6 in 1995 she's 14-15 by the end of s7... but I have no idea what I'd do with a teenage Calvin & Susie.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Somehow a teenage Calvin sounds more irritating than anything else.

Oh and congratulations once again - VERY well deserved and it's nice to see emotionally dark fiction and psychological horror (not to mention great writing) receive appreciation in this fandom.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks a lot!

Teenage Calvin could be horrible. One idea I have is, well, what if the gang shows up in Chagrin Falls, Ohio to find it's been invaded by [insert monster here] and the only survivors are two teenagers, one of whom turns out to be a Slayer and the other a deeply traumatized childhood friend of hers who talks to his toy tiger... But I don't think I want to do that to either of them. I prefer to think the future looks vaguely like this (http://www.thehighdefinite.com/2011/05/calvin-hobbes-bacon/).

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Susie as a Slayer? That's an idea I could get behind.

My younger brothers were into Calvin and Hobbes when we were growing up (I was more a Charlie Brown & Bloomsbury kind of gal); and the only comic I distinctly remember was the one where comes upon Hobbes lying under a tree and hugs him while Calvin has a shitfit about "girl germs"; while Hobbes grins like a fool and says to him "Go soak your head." That made me want a series where they ditched the boy and Susie and Hobbes went off and had adventures together.

Which is what you've written actually - and much better and lovelier than I could have imagined it.

(And explain to me again why it took me so long to figure out I was a lesbian? Hello, red flag?)