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With Gleaming Starlight

Introduction

Slash, het, gen, the works. I used to hate crossovers. Now I don't. I could blame many people, including afrai, Daegaer, and Twinkledru J. Or I might just be a fickle sort of person who changes her mind a lot.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer/various

Numenelisse, by Twinkledru J., is about Willow, and swords, and history, and once more manages to frame a convincing story without too much explanation of how the two universes have meshed. (Buffy/The Lord of the Rings, Willow/Arwen)

The Honeymoon Series, by Twinkledru J., somehow makes a crossover between Star Wars and Buffy funny and believeable. Well, once one gets over that initial suspension of disbelief. But it has Han! And Tara! (Buffy/Star Wars, Willow/Tara, Han/Tara [if I remember correctly, as the page isn't loading for me right now])

What happens when you take a Slayer and put her in a fictional world (apart from the Buffyverse)? Other Realms takes this idea and runs with it; these are some of my favorites (there really need to be more stories, here, since the idea is so wonderful):

Twinkledru J.'s Orturmoriwen is dark and convincing, and speaks to the importance of names. (Buffy/The Lord of the Rings, f/f undertones)

The Naming of Names, by Victoria P., is more explicitly about names, and also works beautifully within the context of Earthsea (I don't remember the books well enough to comment furthur). (Buffy/Earthsea, gen)

Jennifer-Oksana's Daughter of the Hall melds Beowulf and Buffy into a seamless whole that's dark and shining and vaguely reminiscent of Rosemary Sutcliff. One of the stories at history lesson. There is only pain and blood in my life, and none of the life-sweetness the scops say belong to a beautiful daughter of the hall with golden hair. (Buffy/Beowulf, gen)

Good Omens/various

Les Omens, by jenelin, is proof positive that in the hands of a good writer, even the weirdest crossovers can work. It's funny and weird and wonderful and entirely plausible. (Good Omens/Les Misérables, gen)