#worm crossover prompt

[stars-obsession-pit]

The Half-Ghost and The Travelers

The Ghost Zone connects to multiple different worlds. So when Tucker upgraded Danny’s computer to route its internet through the Zone to have connection anywhere, it coincidentally also allowed him to connect to other worlds too.

Once he realized this, Danny started to occasionally try out games from those alternate worlds.

Amongst those was a multiplayer game called Ransack. It may not have stood out too much to him on its own, but he managed to make some online friends through it. They were members of computer gaming club from their world’s version of Madison, Wisconsin.

And then one day they completely dropped off the grid.

So of course he tried to look for them. Online friends losing contact isn’t uncommon, but a whole group vanishing at once without any warning? That was worrying to him.

The plot only thickened when he saw on that world’s news that an entire building in their city had been suddenly torn away through a rift in space.

Now he really needed to track them down…

(or in more direct words: a Danny Phantom - Worm crossover where Danny was online friends with the Travelers prior to them being pulled to Earth Bet by the Simurgh, and he sets out to try and learn what happened to them (and, once he finds out, to try to help them))

[blueboybot]

Birds Of A Feather Fight Ghost Together

Danny is now a bird. No, he did not transform willingly and yes it did have something to do with Vlad's new weapon because creepy old men who have acess to advanced tech will try anything on unsuspecting teenagers these days. It's not all that bad though, he can still fight pretty good as a weird pigeon (the ghost learned very fast that sharp talons to the face were not worth it) and the only downside was his attraction to shiny things, which has only distracted him a few times (no Jazz he was not hording the fancy and shiny forks, he was just holding onto them incase he needed them for a bigger dinner later).

Anyways he was flying through the GZ on his way to either find more shiny things or peck out another ghost's eyes, he doesn't mind which comes first, when a glint caught his beady bird eyes.

"Shiny thing first it is."

As Danny flew closer he realized two things. One, the shiny thing was infact a shiny sword. Two, the shiny sword was being wielded by a child in the middle of fighting a ghost.

He quickly flew down opening his beak and produced a small coo wail that immediately popped the creature. Danny needed to figure out how the boy ended up– Wait! HE HAS FRIES!

He'll figure out that later but now he needs those fries.

[that-one-weird-cloud0]

Danny: damn bro you smelly as fuckkkkk wtf you bathe in? Sewage?!?

Jason: wtf did you just say

Danny: yo hold still a sec

Jason: wha—

Danny, pulls toxic dark green sludge out of Jason’s chest that fucking wiggles around like a parasite: there the little bugger is

Batfam: 0-0

Danny:

Batfam:

Danny: *eats it*

Batfam: ?!?!!!!?!??!?!!!?!!???!!!!!??

[haleswallows]

DC x DP Dead Tired 'Fake Relationship' plot bunny

Alright, imagine me presenting you with this like a proud cat bringing you the hair tie I just murdered. (Anyone is welcome to add to this - to treat it like a prompt or to expand on it. Just, like, let me know so I can consume it with an unhinged fervor, thank you!)

Tim (no longer forever 17) finds himself in a bit of a situation. One being that he's really fed up with Dick and Barbara and Alfred and even Bruce being nosy. And why are they being nosy?

Because that's their love language. And also, because for some absurd reason Tim cannot discern, Dick got it in his head that Tim is lonely. Which, of course means everyone has accepted the mission to get Tim hitched.

Is it that Tim and Bernard broke up? Is it that Tim has gone stag to every charity gala for the last year? Is it that Bruce finally pulled his head out of his ass and made things work out with Selina? The world may never know.

What Tim does know is he isn't lonely. He's fine. Truly.

Enter Danny Phantom.

The ghost hero is interesting. Tim side eyes the guy pretty hard when he joins the Justice League. For a dead guy, he's pretty cheery and up-beat. Honestly, with all the quips & puns, he could have been a Robin in a past life.

Surprising absolutely no one, Nightwing and Phantom quickly become butt-buddies, joined at the hip, partners in crime. Tim is not jealous, no matter what Dick says. He has his own team, his own cases, CEO work, etc etc etc and even more etc. Great, Dick has a new friend.

Too bad for Tim, one of his cases overlaps with Phantom's 'jurisdiction'. No one will tell Tim what that means. No worries, Tim will find out. He always does.

Red Robin and Phantom team up. It goes... great. No grievous injuries, the case gets solved, Phantom takes the frankly disturbing relic of Red Robin's hands. Tim cares only in-so-far that the thing is out of Gotham and Phantom promises (so-signed by Batman? the actual fuck?) it will be safe and won't return to the human realm.

They're wrapping up in one of Tim's more 'civilian' passing safe-houses. Mostly because it was the closest, and Phantom said something about 'ley lines' and 'easier to open a portal'. Cool, whatever. Tim was going to burn this safe-house soon anyway.

Tim, as always, gets himself into trouble. Chronic Thinking Too Much Disease, they really ought to make a cure for it. He's reflecting, watching Phantom eat Cheerios right out of the box, sitting on the counter, looking like he belongs there. When the fuck did Tim get Cheerios?

There's no denying it. Tim liked working with Phantom. The guy is good in a fight, doesn't rely on his powers too much, and kept up with Tim. Not not physically, but intellectually. And he's shockingly earnest when he isn't being a trash-talking little shit.

So. Tim gets an idea.

"Hey," he says before he's even thoroughly thought it out, "we should date."

Phantom pauses, gloved hand suspended in the middle of shoving another handful of cereal into his mouth, wide eyed and gaping. Attractive.

"Huh?" he says, eloquently.

"Not for real," Tim scrambles to explain. "I mean fake dating. Just hang around some, be a bit performative, nothing out of masks. We can say we're taking things slow and break up. Nightwing keeps trying to set me up with a date. This will get him off my case."

"Oooooh." Phantom resumes inhaling cereal. Why a ghost needs to eat, Tim would like to know, but it's probably rude to ask. Slowly chewing, Phantom seriously thinks it over. "You know, the council has been bugging me too. About dating. This could work out for both of us."

Council? Tim would like to know why a council is interested in Phantom dating. So he asks.

Phantom sighs explosively. Finally, he sets the Cheerios down. "OK, so like, this is need to know basis only. I haven't even disclosed it to the League. And like, Nightwing only knows because he's my friend and the Observants crashed one of our mission and blew the lid."

Pulling a face, Phantom waves an arm in an arc over his head. A crown appears, spinning and shooting off beams of light like an Aurora Borealis.

"I'm the Ghost King. It's a whole thing, no I am not taking questions on it at this time. Well, technically, I'm the Prince of the Infinite Realms because I'm too young to take the throne. So, there's a council and a regent. Whatever, not important!"

Phantom claps, getting himself back on track. "What that means is there's a council and Observants that are really interested in my personal shit. Including who I date. But like, I'm enjoying my brat girl summer and being single right now, not that they care."

Tim blinks. Then blinks again, slotting the new information in place alongside everything he knows about Phantom. That's... something.

"That sounds annoying," Tim says, instead of one of the approximately 23 questions in his head that are quickly spawning more by the second. "Fake dating would solve both of our problems."

Because Tim is a professional, they make a contract. Phantom will remain Red Robin's boyfriend, since they're taking it slow and no secret identities will need to be disclosed. Tim doesn't ask why Phantom would have a secret identity... he's dead? Saves the question for the later.

Red Robin will remain Phantom's totally human badass vigilante boyfriend, since they're taking it slow and Tim won't be required to do anything in any capacity for the Infinite Realms.

Then they set boundaries. Date ideas, what they're comfortable with for PDA, how much they'll have to do to sell it.

"I mean," Phantoms says, again with a mouthful of Cheerios. "Clockwork monitors the timelines, so he definitely already knows what we're doing. And he hasn't intervened yet." When Tim gives him A Look, Phantom helpfully explains, "He only intervenes when I do something stupid enough that'll change the course of the multiverse. So," then shrugs, entirely too nonchalant for Tim's tastes.

"If Clockwork already knows, won't he say something to the council or the Observants?" The very Observants Phantom has guaranteed will pop in on Tim at some point. So Tim feels compelled to ask.

"Nah," Phantom says. He kicks his feet from where he's sitting on the kitchen table now, right at Tim's elbow. "He hates the Observants more than I do. I bet he loves this. He's always down to fuck with them."

Great. That's... great.

Nothing can go wrong, right?

[downtofragglerock]

I may have come up with the crackiest worm crossover ever

Okay so hear me out.... worm/mst3k crossover

So msty wise this would be set during season 8 since that’s where all of the timey-wimey stuff that would facilitate such a crossover happens

The SOL and the Widowmaker go through a wormhole and end up on what seems to be modern earth, but somethings not right

The first clue is that a couple landmasses are strangely missing

The second more obvious clue is the giant angelic being in orbit that immediately spots them

Brain Guy psychically shields the mads but Mike and the bots get the full brunt of the Simurgh’s scream

Only for it to...not work

Mike and the bots have been so desensitized thanks to constantly being forced to watch the worst movies ever made for years on end in an experiment specifically designed to make them go insane that the Simurgh’s modus operandi has no effect on them

Trying to defend themselves, Mike Nelson, destroyer of worlds, accidentally blows the Simurgh up using a baking soda volcano or something

The Widowmaker touches down on earth bet, all of them getting confirmation that while they’re on present day earth, they’re not on their present day earth

Pearl then realizes that an alternate earth probably has movies that exist only there, and that includes bad ones, and suddenly the mads now have a whole new universe’s arsenal of awful films to torture the Satellite of Love’s crew with

[horatiovonbecker]

I appreciate this cross, but contend that it's Amy who's the harried self-loathing enabler whose huge pile of issues conceals another even bigger pile of issues. The fact that she's also the shorter less-violent one with the incestuous interest is mostly irrelevant; her bad decisions aren't the ones driving the plot.

Vicky and Ashley are much less one-to-one. They're both passionate, self-centered, and taking unfair advantage of their siblings' willingness to cover for them, but that's about it. Vicky's coping method, as expressed through her powers, is to make herself the center of everyone's attention and project a facade of invincibility (which will crumble if poked too hard). Ashley's is to use Andy for all her emotional needs and also destroy every other relationship has in order to keep him from leaving. (So as a Parahuman she'd probably be some kind of extremely messed up parasite Stranger.)

Probably the biggest thing keeping me from actually writing this, or at least summarizing it, is not knowing how to isolate them properly - and, in saying that, the obvious solution is that the Simurgh attacked instead of Leviathan. Hm.

The Coffin of Vicky and Amy

[mae-dwrites]

DPxDCxMLB Prompt:

“The Wizard was a Ghost King”

Now I love Danny Phantom, even though I haven’t had the pleasure to watch even a 1/4 of the show. But I love crossovers, and DPxDCxMLB is one of my favorites honestly, but there isn’t a lot.

This is more about lore stuff and is my personal brain worm of figuring out how to fill in a plot hole in Miraculous via crossovers.

So in Miraculous apparently a Wizard somehow learned about the Kwami. Now how could an alive mortal know of these beings? Now we could say they used magic, but let's go a more fun route!

This “Wizard” was actually a Ghost King, because from what I’ve gathered there have been multiple unless I’ve been lied to through headcanons. (I promise I’m getting to doing proper research on Danny Phantom, kinda got a list) Also, I don't recall most of what was actually said about this “Wizard” in the cannon.

This Ghost King could have been one of the kind or kinder ones, or just another selfish ghost craving for more power.

The “Kinder” Ghost King was friends with the Kwami hearing his friends complain or weep over not being able to truly interact with the creatures in one realm or another. Only tipping a few scales here or there, leading them somewhere else, among other things(Like Plagg committing genocide on the Dinasours or however cannon went…). The Kwami could only do so much in their current state, as they didn't have ties to the physical level/plane. So the Ghost King gave them options, for them to be tied to an object that could be handled by the creatures of the realms.

(Maybe they were acquaintances, or the Kwami came to the Ghost King for help to be on the physical plane of these other Realms? There are so many ways this can go)

The Kwami got to choose the realm(or Universe if you want to refer to it as that) that they could reside in.

It may even be the duty of the Ghost King to tie new Kwami to items and send them to their Realm, or to enact it when a Kwami would wish to join the world that their brethren now are in.

Now if you want to go the Selfish-Power-Hungry route, the “Selfish” Ghost King saw the potential in the Kwami and wanted to use it for himself. So to abuse their power the Kwami were tied to their objects, the “Selfish” Ghost King would be overthrown(the Ancients might have played a part if I'm remember who those are correctly), and the Miraculi would somehow end up their eventual Realm/Universe.

Or another one I came up with, the Ghost King of that time was a wizard in their part life! Or it could have just been a super powerful ghost, but the GK route is funner…

So imagine Kwami haven’t gone to a Ghost King in so long cause they’re wary, but these newer or older ones (older ones probably just didn’t want to join the physical plane) have heard of Danny even before he was crowned or was to be crowned. So they take a chance to ask for him to tie them to the physical plane of the realm their fellow Kwami reside in.

So chaos ensues on Earth as magic users, Guardians, and Amazonians alike feel the arrival of the new Miraculi for the first time in hundreds of years.

[atopvisenyashill]

i was tagged by @thewaaywetalk to list my crackships for asoiaf!!! fun prompt!

i mean i do think briensa is considered a crack ship bc they haven’t met yet in book canon and brienne isn’t shipped enough outside of braime bc no one has taste except me and three other people in this tugboat with me. check my girls-

god the northern lighting sucks so bad. anyways.

i have a hard time defining "crackship" largely because people will call anything a crack ship nowadays (*cue grandpa voice*) and back in my day people only called stuff that was like person/inanimate object or crossover ships crack but now you can ship two characters who have interacted, think about each other on several occasions, and have a bunch of narrative parallels and you get told its a crackship. personally, so long as they interact one (1) time i say it's got basis in canon!!!!!!!!

probably my most obscure is Black Aly and Alyn Oakenfist for F&B and Grey Worm & Jeyne Poole for the main series. I had a theory that the pact of ice and fire was a wife swap thing so not only would Jace marry Sara and his first born daughter would go north but also that Baela would marry Cregan as well because I thought anything short of Cregan getting some sort of dragon - literal or metaphorical - right now was dumb. egg on my face i guess alskjdf anyway i think more interesting for baela but i also thought it would be really interesting for black aly and alyn oakenfist especially considering his affairs - "i left my religion, my home, my entire life behind to marry this bastard turned legitimate that charmed me and he has the audacity to cheat on me with another valyrian" really hits for me, especially considering how close benjicot and addam were. once again, f&b is full of missed opportunities (to me).

the grey worm/jeyne poole thing came to me in a dream where grey worm and jon became friends and grey worm stayed in the north and married jeyne poole because they both have similar, extreme traumas and aren't noble born, and sansa gave jeyne away since all of jeyne's family was dead and grey worm started calling himself grey worm poole (i did say it was a dream) and now i just really really need something like that to happen to both of them or i'll die.

i'm gonna tag @transdimensional-void @kingcunny @maegorsbignaturals @riana-one @daenerysstormreborn @eggblackwood @allyriadayne no pressure but you better match my dumb ass energy aldjf

[resplendent-chungus]

Fanfic 20 questions! This seems really fun, thanks for tagging me @followerofmercy

1. How many fics do you have on AO3?

Twenty-six! Which I think is a bunch when not compared to insane people who right, say, a hundred twenty fics. Cough Mercy.

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

179,826, though I will add since I got my start in fic writing quests on Sufficient Velocity, there's another 113.2K that's not on AO3.

3. What fandoms do you write for?

My tastes are as fickle as the wind. I am a wandering ronin writing whatever I feel like. I theoretically write RWBY but also haven't updated a RWBY fic since January. I thought I was done with Madoka fics but then I heard news about the movie and had no choice but to write Heartless. I've written 3 A Practical Guide To Evil fics over 5 years. Who fuckin knows with me?

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Breaking and Entering Your Heart (Madoka Magica) is, somehow, my most kudo'd fic of all time. I have no idea why. I don't think it's particularly good (not helped by the fact that I was like 16 when I wrote it). It's not even my favourite Madoka fic I wrote as a teenager!

Doka Don't You Know (Madoka Magica) is my favourite Madoka fic I wrote as a teenager. It's still kind of embarrassing for me to read back, but I do think I did good with it. The real embarrassing part is that it was inspired by me getting emotional listening to the Ninja Sex Party song of a similar name.

Drabble Roulette (Steven Universe) is sort of cheating, as it was a drabble collection I did with several friends, but nevertheless it's one of the most kudo'd fics I've worked on. We all did a short fic every week based on the same one-word prompt, and God we kicked ass.

I can almost hear the Hounds (RWBY) is definitely the one I'm most proud of. What if Ruby got turned into a Hound before V1? Well everyone would be sad, for one. It also holds the distinction of being the first time anyone's ever done a "Cast of [show] reacts!" thing to a fic I've read. Talk about an ego boost!

And my fifth-most kudo'd fic is... Actions, Consequences, and the Tragic Lack Thereof (Worm)? The edgy oneshot I did where a very well-adjusted Taylor uses Coil's power to blow off steam? Huh. Not either of my RWBY oneshots? Well I suppose I can't complain.

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Not really. I try, but as I've said before responding to comments is my dump stat. I really do love everyone's comments, I'm sooo insanely bad at responding sdgsd

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

It depends on what qualifies as an angsty ending; most of my angsty fics have happy endings, with Heartless being the only one I've written to really contradict that. Blood, Blood, Gallons of the Stuff and Sometimes the only way out is as a carcass have the worst endings insofar as horrible fates, but I wouldn't really call them angst.

7. What is the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Probably Trim and nothing else? It depends on how you define it, but I'd say that one.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Not really, thankfully. I straight up can't remember anything of the sort lmao

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Boy, do I! Of the smut I've published, I'd say it's pretty varied? Some het, some gays, some ships and an OC or two... I've got the variety, baby.

10. Do you write crossovers? If so, what's the craziest one you've ever written?

Not really? I find they're usually more daydream material than hunker-down-and-write material, though sometimes I have no choice. I have a chapter or two of the most self-indulgent APGTE/RWBY crossover that I doubt I'd ever put out there on account of it having a target audience of exactly one. Craziest would probably be the Madoka Magica/Magical Girl Noir Quest crossover I wrote as a teenager. It's harder to get more self-indulgent than fanfiction of a fanfiction crossing it over with the source material sdgds

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I sort of vaguely remember this happening? I remember someone posting a really poorly written edgy SU fic that had the exact same premise as my slightly better written edgy SU fic and only updated after mine did.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not that I know of, though if anyone wants to please feel free.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Not really? The Drabble roulette is the closest I've come, and that was a bunch of individual shorties. Besides, I can't imagine I'd have a great time trying to fit my writing process with someone else (and I definitely don't think they'd have a good time trying to adjust to me lmao)

14. What's your all-time favorite ship?

God that's tough. I'm not sure I can give a definitive answer here. I might have to say Madohomu or Midlink just because of how deeply they've altered my brain chemistry

15. What's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Brother that is most of what I've written. I really want to get Tomorrow I'll be perfect and You waxen wing, you foolish thing done at some point, though I'm not sure I'm will. The Most Insane Girls On Remnant is a work so in progress that only one person knows it even exists, and if I could magic myself into fully writing one it would probably be that one.

16. What are your writing strengths?

If I could write an entire book of nothing but snarky narrators I would be a new york times bestseller by now. They are my bread and butter. Comedy in general, I guess, but that specifically.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Action scenes. Action scenes action scenes action scenes. It's not so much that I think I'm bad at them, more that they're just so hard for me. I could write a thousand words of most anything else before I write five hundred words of an action scene.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I don't super mind it when reading, but I can't imagine writing it. Maybe a word or two, but still.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

I wrote down Madoka Magica at first, but now I'm realizing it was actually Warrior Cats, all the way back when I was a wee little child. I'm not sure if I deleted them or just changed ff.net accounts at some point, but I don't know where they are and I'm happy that way.

20. Favorite fic you've written?

I mean it's gotta be I can almost hear the Hounds. There's a lot of other things like (Aw Drat, Tomorrow I'll be Perfect, etc) but this one hold a special place in my heart. There's a reason I have chapter on pinned in my blog.

Damn that took me like three days to write. I shall pass the curse onto @golddragon387, of course, and perhaps @borkthemork to torment him

[noxcheshire]

I have a few images of what this means,

The more romantic comedy is Jason coming out dramatically while bride-carrying Danny who is theatrically leaning into Jason, upping the look of a demure woman by pretending to be shy but touched by Jason being his ideal man who carries him like something precious.

The other side of me is leaning hard into comedic with Jason popping out of the pits looking baffled but tired, and Danny gnawing at him like some angry cat because Jason had scared him through a portal at the bottom of the pits and followed after him back to where he came from to teach him a lesson.

And an even more different side of me is wanting core-Danny to be baby and is now Jason’s baby but no one knows until some suspicious months later when Red Hood has a baby strapped to his chest and also wearing their own safety-baby-fied version of the Red Hood Helmet.

And then another OTHER part of me wants Jason and Danny to merge together like venom, and Jason is subjected to Danny ‘pun menace and just throw enough fists’ Phantom.

I have a thousands huskies inside of me howling to be heard, release me huskies

DP X DC Prompt #81

When Jason is dumped into the Lazarus Pit he emerges from the Portal with Danny!

[stars-obsession-pit]

Imagine if Vlad just like… had a kid.

Well, probably not his own kid, since I can’t really see him getting with someone else considering his obsession with Maddie, but what if like one of his relatives died and their kid ended up with him.

And Vlad’s… well he’s not the best dad, but he doesn’t have the whole nemesis thing with them like he does with Danny so he’s actually sorta trying.

Though considering he’s Vlad, they do still end up picking up some more dubious traits/skills from him.

Not sure if that’d be just from unintentional osmosis by proximity or actual training from Vlad. I can’t really imagine Vlad forcibly causing a portal accident on a kid to make them a halfa like him, but I could definitely see him having them assist him by teaching them some con artistry stuff and equipping them with ecto-tech and whatnot.

And of course, this eventually leads to that kid and Danny meeting up later. It’d probably make the most sense for this to happen during the college reunion, but I think it’d be cool for it to happen later so Danny has more preconceptions about Vlad.

So like Danny is incredibly suspicious of the kid but the kid is more just like… a bit maladjusted rather than actually evil. Probably not gonna full-on run away from Vlad in the same way as Dani did, but willing to go against him to help Danny out sometimes.

[patternwelded-quill]

State of the Fics

Here's a list and progress on the fanfic projects (affectionally called 'tadpoles' because they're all brain worms inflicted on me) I have going. As of 2/11/24:

Wet Behind the (Long) Ears: What if Ranma was knocked into the 'Spring of Drowned *Elf* Girl'?

-Status: Chapters 1-5 posted. The rest of the first arc is rough drafted, aprox. 35-40k words.

Chapter 6 is getting expanded and possibly split into 2 chapters! Had an idea and did some research, it pans out. Currently at 4k words.

The Stone Will Sing: Thematic companion to WB(L)E. Maybe Ranma's so short as a girl is because it was a young dwarf girl who drowned in Nyannichuan. Or perhaps the Khazad didn't die out, but vanished as a distinct race. Worldbuilding crossover with LoTR.

-Status: Outlining the story to start drafting. If this fic doesn't piss off some Tolkien scholars, I didn't do my job right.

Twice the Curse? Double the Fun!: Ranma discovers that P-chan is actually his old frenemy Ryoga. But somehow the Lost Boy managed to get himself *two* Jusenkyo curses. ...or, did he? One-shot for muffinmoonn.

-Status: Drafting, using as a nice palate cleanser when I get stressed with other writing.

Once We Were Warriors: OC Relarial is isekai'd into a 1996 Tokyo shared by Ranma 1/2 and Sailor Moon. This was prompted by a convo w/ a friend about our OCs as Senshi.

-Status: Book 1 posted on A03. Book 2 rough drafted, book 3 outlining.

[ninjakittenarmy]

Was thinking about the trend of people compiling oneshots from unrelated fandoms into one published anthology labeled as a crossover and I figured like some others I’d try to explain a few things to people doing this for why this isn’t a good idea.

Putting multiple fandoms into a work gets it labeled a crossover. The expectation is that the two+ settings will be featured in one story. There’s a wide variety of types of crossover but people generally expect stuff like characters from each setting interacting, or characters from one setting being transported into another or an overarching story relevant to both worlds even if they don’t interact directly or stuff like that. It’s fairly self explanatory. If you tag with more than one fandom, that’s what people usually expect. I can think of other things that could justify it but not separate stories that are unrelated. You publish those as separate works. If you’re going to publish separate oneshots as an anthology, they best ALL be crossovers. Anything that isn’t should be published separately. Otherwise it clutters the search results and makes it harder for everyone to find what they’re actually looking for and that is only going to attract negative attention to your work as people grumble about them while scrolling past.

There’s not much benefit to publishing anthologies on AO3 to begin with. Anthologies of unrelated short stories are typically published like that for convenience for the reader and publisher. It’s far easier and cheaper to buy a whole book of short stories than to buy them as like, pamphlets. More profitable too because more people buy them as collections. That’s not relevant here since you already have a website full of search results for all of these stories. Only real reason to publish oneshots together is if there’s something tying them together. Same continuity, same theme, same scenario etc. and DEFINITELY same fandom and preferably ship(s). This sort of anthology makes sense because it’s meant to be viewed as a whole work as well as a collection.

AO3 already has a feature for putting stories into collections. Collections have their own tags for stuff common in all the stories. Title can reflect the reason they’re paired together. The stories still show up individually in the search so everyone finds the one they’re looking for without sifting through all of them but they’re still told they’re part of the collection so they’re prompted to look into it. Tutorial here.

Adding on to that, there should be a reason for these stories to be in a collection aside from the fact that you wrote them since people can just view your author page for that. People do actually click on those pretty often.

There’s no algorithm on AO3. This one you’ve probably heard shouted in bold text in large fonts often. I’m trying to keep this more calm since that can get overwhelming at times. There’s no feed on AO3, just search results, and the search results are based solely on what is entered in the field. This means that there’s no inherent benefits or drawbacks for stories of long or short lengths. This is in contrast to social media sites, a lot of search engines, and video platforms who prioritize promoting the content the company believes is most profitable for whatever reason. On say, YouTube, you see stuff like content creators combining videos that were posted in parts into longer videos because the algorithm used to favor short stuff and now favors long stuff, and that fluctuates a lot. We don’t have that on AO3 bc it doesn’t matter what becomes popular there. AO3 doesn’t make revenue off the site, it was designed not to because companies and authors have sued a lot of fic writers and sites for copyright infringement if they did. Fanfiction.net gets away with having ads so long as it’s nonprofit, but AO3 relies solely on donations because advertisers tend to demand you make sites friendlier to their brand and that’s a whole other can of worms. Point is, AO3 doesn’t care which content becomes popular, it’s just a place for it to exist at all. More or fewer tags, fandoms etc. won’t game the algorithm to promote your stuff. Only thing it changes is who’s looking for it. People who want long stuff search for higher word counts and vice versa. Without an algorithm trying to convince you to favor something, it’s a complete toss up who reads what as far as you’re concerned. Which tags you use and how many also do not boost your work’s likelihood of showing up.

[mkarchin713]

Okay people we have a lot of options here, here are a few based on common DCxDP tropes I have seen or things I just think would be funny

Danny is a Bats Twin/sibling who mistakes Dan for Danny

Danny/Dan is a bats clone

Dan figures out Jason is a sickly halfa

Dan killed the Batfam in the TUE timeline and feels awkward

Oliver Queen says something stupid and Dan punches him

Vlad starts simping for Bruce and Dan is forced to watch

Time traveling hero sees Dan and tries to stop him before he becomes evil not knowing that timeline basically disintegrated

Long lived hero mistakes Dan as Danny as they met Danny on one of his time traveling adventures

Joker tries to take over Gala only to be killed by Dan who finds it oddly satisfying to know he’s killed the joker twice now

Dan starts dating your favorite Bat

Dan forgets he no longer looks like an adult and is frustrated no one will serve him alcohol.

Magical hero clocks Dan and Vlad as ghostly and think that ghosts are possessing their bodies

Vlad gets into a dick measuring contest with Lex Luther and Dan befriends Connor

Vlad and Lex have big “I hate you but want to fuck you”/divorced exes energy and Dan doesn’t know how to process this without alcohol

Dan gets frustrated and lightly (for him) punches a super in their civies and knocks them out.

Mixture of all of the above

Dan is still adjusting to his new body when Vlad suddenly proposes taking him along to a charity gala. Apparently this is a way to start making up for his past shady dealings while also providing a good opportunity for some quality bonding time. Vlad seemed so genuinely excited that Dan couldn't bring himself to say no (though he really wanted to). He just hoped he wouldn't come to regret his decision.

[nani-nonny]

I thought of something: a New F!Leo where he's able to use Mikey's portal but instead of going back to the past he go into an area.

Like the one in your snippet where f!leo speak to other f!leos before going to 2012 tmnt universe?

This F!Leo sees your peepaws "Nonny peepaws" and have the option to choose which dimension/fic to enter.

It can be somewhat of a like sunrise fic/game you gave us.

Oh, like in DisMir when the Leos accidentally switch places?

Actually… I think the rise&tmnt crossover fic that you mentioned follows that premise… kind of. Maybe not? At least, from what I have planned out…

Hmm… a peepaw multiverse jumper? So if Reunion had a fic of his own—an actual fic and not a oneshot that evolved in my mind without sharing the entirety? Haha?

I need something more from this kind of prompt to get the brain worms going /lhj

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You can find me on Ao3 and FanFiction.net under the name AndromedaJester

Here’s the short version of AU and Fics lists.

Extended version under the Read More.

“Half-Life But the AI is Self Aware” AUs and Fics

Metamorphosis AU

HLVRAI B-Side / Another Swap AU

Half-Life Collector Edition / HLCEVR Tech Support

“Half-Life (Series)” AUs and Fics

Law of Preservation

BreenLoop, or: Do I LOOK Like Freeman to You?

Crossover AUs and Fics

Half-Life Mystery Dungeon AU

“Half-Life But the AI is Self Aware” AUs and Fics

Metamorphosis AU

Four years after the Resonance Cascade, Gordon starts to undergo strange bodily changes. His only help for navigating these changes is Benrey, who has returned after years of silence following the Bank Heist. Shenanigans ensue, including transformations into a giant worm on a string.

Post-Game AU with cameos from the actual Half Life expansions

Slow burn but for friendship! Left up to reader interpretation whether or not they become more than friends

WARNINGS: Still early on in the story but future chapter may contain mentions of Bodily Transformation, Medical Malpractice, Death, and heavily implied Abuse (will edit this as necessary)

Tagged as #HLVRAI Metamorphosis AU and #Metamorphosis AU

HLVRAI B-Side / Another Swap AU

Benrey is a security guard controlled by a human in the real world, Gordon is an alien from another world that has been captured and turned into a permanent member of Black Mesa’s Anomalous Materials Department. When a Resonance Cascade strikes, these two men at ground zero will have to fight tooth and nail to get themselves, a mixologist, a member of the military, and one of Black Mesa’s suit-clad investors out of the facility in one piece.

WARNINGS: Contains mentions of Death, Child Death, Medical Malpractice, Mental and Emotional Abuse (will edit when necessary)

Tagged as #HLVRAI B-Side. Can also be tagged as #Another Swap AU but I’m trying to retire this tag for the other one.

HLCEVR Tech Support

Has its own Askblog found here!

“This page is for questions, comments, and concerns involving the unofficially released 2020 game Half-Life: Collector Edition.”

Treats HLVR as one of a few games in a collection that have VR support and advanced AI as a means to increase the replay value of the original Half-Life 1 and its expansions. Visitors of the page can send asks to get “help” with issues they have with their games or with “savemyscienceteam.world,” a website used to export AI companions out of the video game after completing a campaign.

An AU that technically contains all of my other HLVRAI AUs (B-Side, Metamorphosis, etc.) within it.

Tagged as #HLCEVR

Half-Life AUs and Fics

Law of Preservation

Three scientists, a security guard, and a US marine wake up one day with a strange feeling of deja vu and lost time; six months later they find out why. They might not be able to stop the Resonance Cascade from happening, but they can at least work together to lessen the damages. Nothing a little bit of teamwork and powdered donuts can’t fix.

AU fic based on that one Half-Life Prompts post where Gordon, Barney, Adrian, Gina and Colette all meet up to escape the ResCas.

WIP Fic, no chapters released yet.

BreenLoop, or: Do I LOOK Like Freeman to You?

“My name is Wallace Breen…by the will of some sort of terrible higher power, I have found myself in the mind and body of Dr. Gordon Freeman prior to the events that will soon spell my unfortunately downfall, as well as the events that would swiftly follow.”

Gordon Freeman has the power to come save and reload points of time like a video game and is basically stuck in a time loop. Dr. Breen finds this out when his consciousness ends up inside Gordon’s body…with himself in control.

Crossover AUs and Fics

Half-Life Mystery Dungeon AU

Fandoms: Half-Life, Pokemon

Dr. Freeman was used to waking up in places he didn’t recognize at this point. Leave it to the universe to throw a wrench into what little normalcy he has left and suddenly have him turned into a 4-foot-tall sasquatch with electric power. What the hell even is a Pokemon, and why do so many of them share their names with people he knows?

AU where Gordon, a man who only knows about three Pokemon maximum, gets eeby-deeby’d into Pokemon Mystery Dungeon.

Gordon is an electabuzz

Nothing written yet but I do have concept sketches.