"Why are you purple?"
Jun. 12th, 2006 10:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ship_go_boomOh. My. God. How did I forget?
How in Tartarus did I forget my love of Iolaus? And Hercules? And Autolycus and all the rest? Oh, fandom, how I have neglected you!
But fortunately, my love of Hercverse has been restored, resurrected even, by my love of Buffyverse. Because I have spent the last three days reading a crossover between the two. That actually works and is well written. It even makes sense (which is high praise even for a non-crossover)!
When Hellmouths Collide by Kimberly Rector and Martha Wilson.
Buffy, Willow, Xander and Giles get themselves sucked through a portal to another dimension. You can figure out which one. It is, of course, all Ethan's fault. Set earlyish S3 for BtVS (post- Band Candy, but possibly pre-Revelations) / post-Just Passing Through AU for HtLJ (took me awhile to realize that - I'd just thought it was just post-Revelations, and I know its very confusing to have two series with the same ep name).
WHC is actually the later part of a series of loosely-connected stories (the early ones being when the U becomes A) that I'm going to go back and read; they're not really required to get the story. Actually it's detailed and well-voiced enough that you don't really need more than a passing familiarity with the TV series to get it (moss6886 likes it - she's actually the one who found it - and she's only seen a few eps). There's also a sequel (AtS x-over) set during the end of There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb.
Go read! It's good! And, somewhat ironically, written by people who are fairly well-versed in actual Greek history and culture...
Must go hunt for icons & rerun schedules now... :D
ETA: In my hunt for icons, I discovered thatmarycrawford (one of the head honchos at Less Than Legendary Journeys - updates at ltlj), made a really hilarious vid to the Jennifer Saunders version of Holding Out for a Hero. From the POV of the Widow Twanky. It lives here. Watch it.
Oh, and luckily for you, my unsuspecting Buffyverse fandom flist, there aren't any HtLJ reruns showing in the U.S. and I have other things I'd rather Netflix. So theoretically this phase should pass quickly. Theoretically.
ETA2: I had gotten the timeline for the HtLJ portion of WHC wrong; I had originally said it was post-Redemption, 'cause the Iolaus in the story is the good old swashbuckler, but the jester is around (just not in this story).
How in Tartarus did I forget my love of Iolaus? And Hercules? And Autolycus and all the rest? Oh, fandom, how I have neglected you!
But fortunately, my love of Hercverse has been restored, resurrected even, by my love of Buffyverse. Because I have spent the last three days reading a crossover between the two. That actually works and is well written. It even makes sense (which is high praise even for a non-crossover)!
When Hellmouths Collide by Kimberly Rector and Martha Wilson.
Buffy, Willow, Xander and Giles get themselves sucked through a portal to another dimension. You can figure out which one. It is, of course, all Ethan's fault. Set earlyish S3 for BtVS (post- Band Candy, but possibly pre-Revelations) / post-Just Passing Through AU for HtLJ (took me awhile to realize that - I'd just thought it was just post-Revelations, and I know its very confusing to have two series with the same ep name).
WHC is actually the later part of a series of loosely-connected stories (the early ones being when the U becomes A) that I'm going to go back and read; they're not really required to get the story. Actually it's detailed and well-voiced enough that you don't really need more than a passing familiarity with the TV series to get it (
moss6886 likes it - she's actually the one who found it - and she's only seen a few eps). There's also a sequel (AtS x-over) set during the end of There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb.Go read! It's good! And, somewhat ironically, written by people who are fairly well-versed in actual Greek history and culture...
Must go hunt for icons & rerun schedules now... :D
ETA: In my hunt for icons, I discovered that
marycrawford (one of the head honchos at Less Than Legendary Journeys - updates at ltlj), made a really hilarious vid to the Jennifer Saunders version of Holding Out for a Hero. From the POV of the Widow Twanky. It lives here. Watch it.Oh, and luckily for you, my unsuspecting Buffyverse fandom flist, there aren't any HtLJ reruns showing in the U.S. and I have other things I'd rather Netflix. So theoretically this phase should pass quickly. Theoretically.
ETA2: I had gotten the timeline for the HtLJ portion of WHC wrong; I had originally said it was post-Redemption, 'cause the Iolaus in the story is the good old swashbuckler, but the jester is around (just not in this story).
