re: [buffywantswillow] Question for the bards;

[Jim_D_Means@xxxxxxxxxxx]

> Question: What's the strangest 'ship you've ever written?
> 
> Nathan Campbell
> NathanCampbell@xxxxxxxxxxxx

I'd have to go with my Buffy/Willow/Tara story, "Third Power". Me, I can only write shipper 
fic where the pairing(or tripling) makes sense. Buffy/Willow makes sense. Willow/Tara 
makes sense. And in my warped way of thinking, Buffy/Willow/Tara makes sense. Also if 
the pairing has some kind of chemistry on screen; Buffy/Spike, for example. What I can't do 
is pull two names out of a hat(Angel/Tara, or Joyce/Anya, for example) and try to put them 
between the sheets. There's gotta be a connection established between the two(or more) 
characters, or I don't think it's worth writing, or reading. That's just my two dinar's worth.

Now I have a question for the bards out there(and lurkers can answer this one as well). I've 
read a lot of Buffy crossovers(Shyfox's NKA with Star Trek Voyager, or my own Ghost of a 
Chance with Charmed), and I was wondering; what was the strangest property you've ever 
seen crossed over with Buffy? And did that crossover work? 

I recently read a surprisingly good story on the Wiccan Ways site;
http://www.slashaholics.org/wiccanways/ 
It was called "The Bishop and the Two Witches", and was a crossover between Buffy 
(centering on Willow and Tara, natch), and the Blackie Ryan novels of Andrew M. Greeley. 
For those who don't know, Greeley is a Chicago-based Catholic priest who is also a popular 
novelist. His most popular character is a Monsignor(in later novels, Bishop) named Michael 
Blackwood Ryan, or 'Blackie' to his friends, a likable, wise and tolerant man of great faith, 
who also happens to be a crack detective. In this story, his boss, Cardinal Cronin, sends him 
to investigate a supposed miracle that took place at a Starbucks in Chicago, which leads him 
on the trail of two young women, apparantly in love with each other, who live in Sunnydale, 
California. He then aids Willow and Tara in an exorcism when a demon posesses Buffy. A 
dynamite read, with the characters from both sides well represented, and a nice view of faith 
that matches Father Greeley's attitude to a tee(I happen to be a fan of Father Greeley, so I 
read this as a fan of both properties, and the story worked in both ways).

So, do you have any unusual crossovers to report? I'd like to hear about them.

Kirayoshi

"He didn't fall? Inconceivable!"
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."