All the stories I wrote this season were tough nuts to crack, in one way or another.

crossovering sign-ups finished with me being unmatchable on people I could write for, which gave me first dibs at the list of people who were unmatchable on writers. Fortunately, there was no shortage of fandoms I was familiar with; the only issue was that I hadn't written in any of them before, so trying to do a crossover with two new fandoms was a challenge. saturnofthemoon was requesting several fandoms that I am currently familiar with, one of which I was in the middle of my second consecutive binge-watch on, so I chose her to match with. After tossing around several ideas and combinations, I wrote:

Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow. - Leverage/DC's Legends of Tomorrow - 2000 words - Hardison finds an incriminating photograph of Eliot that reveals surprises in Eliot's past and future.

yuletide_admin was a deliberate risk. As big and permanent of a fan as I am of any of The Tomorrow People shows, I did one or more stories in them the last several years, so this year I threw in with Houdini & Doyle, a show I really enjoyed over the summer and had requesters I'm not already friends with. I matched to seren_ccd and, after several false starts and a great deal of research that kept blowing holes in my plans, wrote:

Find a Penny - Houdini & Doyle - 1761 words - Adelaide hasn't always been Adelaide, and she doesn't know if she always will be.

Finally, there was Shortcuts. I really appreciate how the mod for that works to shuffle assignments around so it's not the same people matching with the same people every year. Considering what a small group we are, that must be difficult. This year I was assigned to morgynleri. Among her character requests was Richie Ryan, who was probably the reason for the match, only my head's in a really specific place with him right now because of the SFC universe that I've now been writing for over a year. So I went with a different character selection and decided to do a story about the spin-off girl Katherine and her mortal husband Nick. I ended up with:

Where the Love Light Gleams - Highlander - 2400 words - Nick only wants his family together for the holidays.

Though I started several, I didn't manage any treats this year. Here's to hoping I can pull something together for fandom_stocking

Dear Crossovering Writer:

Thank you so much for signing up for this exchange and for agreeing to write me a story. Crossovers are one of my favorite types of stories, so I can't wait to see what you come up with.

I'm LadySilver, argentum-ls, and argentum_ls. Feel free to browse my feeds. If you have any questions, htbthomas can help you with answers.

Below I've listed some general likes and dislikes, a brief breakdown of what I like in each fandom I've requested (along with favorite characters and pairings), and sentence prompts. I know there's a lot of information here. Everything is optional, though I really hope you'll avoid my DNWs. Use what you want to, and please don't feel like you have to tick off every box. This info is meant to make things easier for you, not harder.

Fandoms included:

Arrow
Being Human (US)
Forever
Highlander: the Series
Houdini & Doyle
Legends of Tomorrow
Leverage
The Listener
Now You See Me
Psych

( Likes and Dislikes )

( Fandom Breakdowns )

( Prompts )

Thank you again for signing up. I hope you have a great time writing!

crossovering is running again this year! This is one of my favorite exchanges because I do so love crossovers. Nominations opened at the dot of midnight (central time) this morning, and I had mine in about five minutes later.

People are allowed to nominate up to 8 fandoms. The top ~100 nominations with the most votes will get in, so if there's something you particularly want to see made available, go add your vote. In the past two years, I've had 6 of my 8 noms make the cut. This year I'm hoping for all 8, obviously, but I expect to see 5, unless there are silent fans out there.

For the record, my nominations this year are:

The Tomorrow People (2013)
The Listener (TV)
Forever (TV)
Highlander: the Series
Arrow
DC's Legends of Tomorrow
Houdini & Doyle
Now You See Me

I've already started thinking about prompts, and I have a couple I'm eagerly waiting to share.

The second batch of exchanges this year got off to a really rough start. Unlike normal, I got started right away, and was making great progress. Then my computer went up in a puff of smoke and all the data went, irrecoverably, with it. Not only did I lose everything for the three extant fests/exchanges I was signed up for, I also lost everything I'd been working on for the previous eight months, including several fandom_stocking fills and partial chapters for each of my two WIPs. What really irks me is that the day before the crash, I'd commented on the need to back everything up--and I thought I had done so. Only afterward did I realize that the backup hadn't worked. I still haven't figured out what went wrong. In the end, I was left scrambling to recreate my work while also finishing a household move that started two years ago, unpacking on the other end, interviewing for and starting a new job, and trying to break in a new computer. Fortunately, deadlines in the two exchanges both got pushed back.

( rarepairfest )

( crossovering )

( badbang )

( genficexchange #1 )

( genficexchange #2 )

Though summer may be taking its sweet time getting to my part of the world, the new round of fests and exchanges is well on its way to being a full season.

Upcoming events include:

ttpsummer - The Tomorrow People may have been unceremoniously canceled (as per usual), but we can at least send it off with some style. This is an open fest. No deadlines, no commitment, and no restrictions. All fanworks welcomed and invited. Sign up to contribute something in the month August.

fkficfest/fkficfest - Forever Knight's annual exchange. Sign-ups should be starting today. Fic and art welcome. Crossovers welcome for the first time.

rarepairfest - A multi-fandom rarepair exchange for any pairing with fewer than 250 completed works of 1000 words or more. Fic and art welcome. Nominations open June 1st.

crossovering / crossovering - A new crossover exchange! Fic only. Nominations begin May 24th.

Obscure and British is a running comment-fest for media that is obscure and British. Leave a prompt. Fill a prompt. All fanworks welcome.

femmeremix / femmeremix - A remix exchange for works focused on the female characters in a fandom. The schedule looks like it's up-in-the-air while the mod finishes her spring semester, so hopefully the fest gets off the ground.