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Sounds good! I hereby vow to read them and comment!
I also vow to read the rest of your Matter-Eater Lad stuff, perhaps tomorrow evening as I'm about to get offline. Cool to have you here, Sarc! Can't have enough Tenzil fans!
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A crack pairing is a pairing of fictional characters that is an alternative to who they're usually paired with and can be used to explore different ideas, or can be used for the sake of comedy by pairing them with unlikely people, or even having them paired up with peoplle of the same sex even though they aren't gay.
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Based on either the Law of Averages or the rule about monkeys typing Shakespeare*, you've gotta' figure that any crack pairing you can devise will be done by somebody else at some point-- if it hasn't already been done somewhere while you weren't looking.
For that reason, I think I'll write mine out first before I google it, so I can play innocent later when I get chased down the block with tar and feathers.
With seventy-three retcons and counting, you'd think at some point that it would be impossible to write anything truly definable as crack anymore, but... (Frankly, I couldn't have thought up SG/UB in a kajillion years, but apparently somebody else could, and did. To cite just one example among many...)
*Or possibly both
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quote:Originally posted by Sarcasm Kid: A crack pairing is a pairing of fictional characters that is an alternative to who they're usually paired with and can be used to explore different ideas, or can be used for the sake of comedy by pairing them with unlikely people, or even having them paired up with peoplle of the same sex even though they aren't gay.
Going against orientation isn't enough to achieve "crack"; most slash is like that. I can't actually define it, but I've seen it used to refer to
- pairing characters who never interact in canon
- random hero/villain pairings
- pairing a character and something that isn't really even a character
Someone more experienced in the fan-fiction world (and not just LSH) should be able to give more examples.
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In the interest of having plenty of material, and the fact that this was a tie (though I sorta consider Trip Kid's interest in Crack Pairings to be a vote), I think March should be:
quote:Originally posted by Sketch Lad: In the interest of having plenty of material, and the fact that this was a tie (though I sorta consider Trip Kid's interest in Crack Pairings to be a vote), I think March should be:
BRAINIAC LEGACY AND/OR CRACK PAIRINGS month.
Why not?
sorry to be a latecomer to the discussion.
Crack pairings seem like such a wide open topic on it's own. Specifying Brainy crack pairings make more sense, whether on its own or with Legacy.
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I figure if it is a double theme - Brainiac Legacy AND Crack Pairings, the mostest cleverest submissions will be the ones that combine all of the above.
We're in a new era of lots o' material per exhibit in the Museum, so I'm glad there was basically a tie for which theme to go with.
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