Crossovers.

[rogueslayer452]

Sometimes I wished fandom fucked with crossovers more like it used to. *

Maybe I'm not looking in the right places since I know it stills happens, it's just that I remember when fandom crossovers were a massive thing especially during my early days in fandom. Yeah, fanfic fusion AUs exist, but it's not the same. There would be fanworks of various kinds where alternate universes featuring different fictional worlds would visit each other, either already existed in or created a kind of wormhole or portal to go into each other's world. It didn't need to make sense, it just needed to be like "how would these characters from this story interact with these others from this other story?" and that's that. But I rarely see those kinds of fanworks anymore, at least not in the way that it used to thrive in fandom spaces. I only see aspects of it now among the cdrama fandom. Of course, this is mere speculation on my part, I kinda theorize that the rise and fall of SuperWhoLock sort of got people to shy away from doing crossovers in such a way, because it was viewed as "cringe" since it was everywhere and dominated a lot of the fandomsphere especially on Tumblr. Which would be a shame if that were true. There is something amazing and uniquely fannish about crossovers, whether it be fanfiction, fanart, fanvids, or classic image manips, it's always been interesting to see the kinds of creativity fandom can come up with. You might not always know the fandoms in question, but it's nice to see people having fun.

(* I'm including myself in this as well, since I had once created some crossover fanworks in the past but have also unfortunately fallen off that wagon and need to get back on.)

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[rogueslayer452]

There, it's so ubiquitous that 90% of fics are crossovers, and I remember being annoyed at there being so few non-crossover fics.

Especially if the fandom is small to begin with where there are so few fics in general, and yet the majority of them are crossovers.

Like, I get it, having a crossover between two different dramas (particularly if it features characters played by actors who were together in a completely different drama) is very tempting, and this happens with non-Asian fandoms too at times, but it can be frustrating when that's all you see.

[tinny]

Yes. I've seen fandom tags filled with crossovers, before the show in question has even aired. People just take the new character name from a fandom they know their blorbo will star in and then write a story without even knowing anything about him apart from his name. No characteristics, no plot, nothing. I honestly don't get it.