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Supernatural is an excellent canon for crossing over with, well, practically any other canon. It's about two guys driving around investigating strange phenomena. You don't have to worry about including a huge cast, or getting them to wander into places and universes they don't belong, or letting them come off as regular crazy guys to a non-magical universe -- they're used to all that.

Crossover fic


One such story I really enjoyed was Cross Cases by [archiveofourown.org profile] yopumpkinhead, which is a Dresden Files/SPN crossover so excellent I had to read the entire excellent book series on account of being addicted to this fic when it was a WIP. (Yes, sometimes I do fandom backwards. Don't judge me.)

I was therefore DELIGHTED when I spotted yopumpkinhead/[personal profile] fallintosanity on the fandom Puerto Rico charity auction, and promptly commissioned a fic with great delight --

Me: Please write a crossover! SPN! Raksura! *vague handwavey flailing*

[personal profile] fallintosanity: ...So, if this story wants to expand far beyond the commissioned wordcount, are you cool waiting extra time for a longer story?

Me: (my secret hopes and dreams are coming true) YEESSSS I mean I'm cool with that, sure!

13 MONTHS LATER: This glorious fic is posted and it is 41k of beautiful wacky funny shenanigans of exactly the type you would expect when alien communal shapeshifting polyamorous dragon-people drop through a universe-rift into Sam and Dean's world. Everybody bonds over ripping Leviathan heads off.

The Distant Sky (40946 words) by fallintosanity
Chapters: 11/11
Fandom: Supernatural, Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Sam Winchester, Dean Winchester, Moon (Books of the Raksura), Malachite (Books of the Raksura), Kethel (Books of the Raksura), Stone (Books of the Raksura), Chime (Books of the Raksura), First (Books of the Raksura), Jade (Books of the Raksura), Merit (Books of the Raksura), Lithe (Books of the Raksura), Consolation (Books of the Raksura), Rise (Books of the Raksura)
Additional Tags: Crossover, Canon-Typical Violence, Angst
Summary:

Moon is supposed to be avoiding Consolation, but a mishap during a visit to Opal Night puts Consolation in danger. Moon and Malachite have to navigate a city stranger than anything either of them have ever seen to rescue her.

Sam and Dean, newly reunited after Dean's miraculous return from Purgatory, investigate reports of mysterious disapperances and cattle theft near Cleveland. But the case turns out to be far more complex than they thought when an enemy they believed dead resurfaces, and they must ally with strange and dangerous creatures to protect all of Cleveland from their common enemy.



Crossover art


All this talk of crossovers ties in REALLY WELL with my [livejournal.com profile] spn_j2_xmas gift from [livejournal.com profile] kuwlshadow, who funnily enough ALSO chose my vague flaily CROSSOVERS prompt and made THREE (3) illustrations of different SPN 'What if?' crossovers! Sam and Dean in front of Judge Judy, Sam and Dean on an adventure with Buffy, and Sam and Dean confronted by the Walking Dead cast!

Layouts


So go be sure to check out all of the above, and then maybe also admire some very pretty Dreamwidth layouts and styles made by [personal profile] rosecarmine here at [community profile] myrtillenne. I tell you, I did not think anything could tempt me into giving up my simple purple swirly theme, but the second one down is making me seriously reconsider.

Three things make a post! (For those new to Dreamwidth, you can use any number in this phrase. However many things you have is the exact right number for you to make a post with. Let's call this creative math skills - math skills for creative types!)
alyndra: Sam and Dean sitting w/ coffee and newspaper in the bunker (Domestic)
This should have gone up MONTHS AGO but attention everybody: RUN DO NOT WALK to check out the glorious SPN/Firefly crossover that [livejournal.com profile] tifaching wrote me for [livejournal.com profile] spn_j2_xmas!

Title: Big Damn Heroes
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Genre: Crossover with the series Firefly
Rating: PG 13
Word count: 7283
Summary: There's some difference of opinion on whether Sam and Dean are heroes. The crew of the Firefly comes to think they are.

This is an entirely delightful meeting of awesome characters across space and time, everybody gets to shine, and the voices are everything Firefly. It made me so happy to read, and then I was out of the country for a month and got back and life swamped me, or I'd've recced it long since, but do yourself a favor and check it out!
alyndra: Sam and Dean sitting w/ coffee and newspaper in the bunker (Domestic)

I went looking for all the Supernatural Big Bang challenges I could find. Here are the best resources I used to compile my list!

Multifandom:

https://bigbangindex.livejournal.com/profile -Multifandom LJ community; list in profile.

http://bigbangindex.dreamwidth.org/ - Multifandom DW community; list tagged “admin: index post.”

http://strina.dreamwidth.org/410079.html -Updated list by mod of the DW comm, included big, reverse, & a few mini; current, defunct, and deleted; and (readers sit up!) masterlists for each round for each challenge! Almost entirely challenges on LJ/DW.

http://wendy.livejournal.com/1910947.html?page=2 -Wendy is the mod for by far the longest-running and biggest SPN Bang out there! Her list is multifandom, LJ only, big bangs only. It also includes comms which were never active.

https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Big%20Bang%20Challenge
-Browse tags for challenges! Once you’re in the Works of a tag, you can look for if it says “Collections: 1″ in between “Chapters:” and “Comments:” under a story. This is honestly easier than trying to search for a collection in the first place. Mods, take note: prominently link to your AO3 collection so people can find it!

https://thebigbangblogproject.tumblr.com/ -Multifandom collaborative effort on Tumblr! Has Google Doc sheets for several fandoms, challenges both lj-based and tumblr-based, go help!


Supernatural Only:


https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CpU-KDDeTQ6K4XoHyYhgWKJgVVfQWRkmP1sO5-A2TiY/edit#gid=0 -Supernatural Doc from the Big Bang Blog Project (above). Mind you check the tags on the bottom, the first list you see is not all there is!

https://www.reddit.com/r/fandomnatural/comments/4ze79r/i_have_an_updated_and_fairly_thorough_list_of/ -Reddit thread, SPN specific: scroll down for more links.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11Ds_yPi47bs_Bz6CJSvV1L72QXVHUXCMSmBOsZpcZXs/edit -List of Dean/Cas friendly challenges (not just bangs) run by the mod of the Dean/Cas Big Bang.

http://deanicanfixthat.tumblr.com/post/153192756651/supernatural-bangschallenges-masterpost -Supernatural bangs and other challenges, current only (active in the past year as of 2016).

http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Fanfic_challenges_%26_exchanges -Good overview of different challenge types with non-exhaustive examples within SPN. A few years out of date; updating it with current information is next on my to-do list!

Hope this is useful. Without all the hard work done by everybody who worked on these lists, I couldn’t have gotten anywhere close to what I was able to do with mine!

alyndra: Dean Winchester in prison orange, wide-ass smile (Dean smile)
I've done very little the past month that I've meant to get done, but one thing that I really oughtn't have let slide this long is to squee about the lovely, wonderful [livejournal.com profile] spn_j2_xmas gift that [livejournal.com profile] dugindeep made for me!!! She wrote a deliciously happy Jensen/Jared/Danneel/Genevieve turn-taking free-for-all, and I adore it to the utmost! Go admire it here!

I should also mention, I've been avoiding writing challenges almost the entire time I've been in fandom due to feeling like I could never succeed at them, but this was a really positive and fun first experience at signing up and doing one, and not only am I doing a second one now, I'm optimistic I'll be signing up for more in the future, yay!