Of This and Other Worlds

It took me a couple of seconds to get the joke (which shows how slow I am), but this crossover in comic form is genius.

Thanks to zakhad for the link.

First, these Alias/HP icons are sheer brilliance. And I agree with most of the House assignments, too... though Jack has decided Slytherin tendencies. Slytherclaw?

Second, GIP! If you are wondering what inspired this particular bit of weirdness, you can find the relevant comment, and my frivolous reply, here. I finally managed to get my own icon concept -- the one that was driving me nuts yesterday -- working, but I still welcome other people's takes on the same theme. And thanks to penwiper26 for her lovely (and fast!) effort. Lisa, what characters/fandom did you want me to write that drabble for?

Just for the record, the illustration that appears on the icon is not mine, but was taken from a pencil sketch by Anneth Lagamo entitled "The Potions Master and the Protege". Although it was labelled as Snape/Hermione, chresimos thought it looked amazingly like an illustration for chapter six of If We Survive, and I had to agree.

Now I'm off to run some errands...

ETA: Thanks to sinick for reminding me of the artist's name and pointing me to her gallery so I could give her proper credit, here and in the icon keywords.

...but I just had to share. Because I'm evil that way.

I blame risti for this. Because she's a Clay Aiken fan, and seeing her username in pharnabazus and narcissam's impromptu chat session this evening inspired me with the thought that somewhere in the wild and woolly universe of HP fandom, there must be at least one fic in which Clay Aiken ends up at Hogwarts.

And yes, indeed, there is such a fic. However, I was not prepared to discover that it is not merely bad (which was a given) but in fact intentionally bad, and actually quite funny in parts. So here, for the brave (or insane), is the link:

Professor Pop Star: A Harry Potter/Clay Story.

On the way to discovering this hidden gum gem, I also stumbled across some Aiken-inspired HP artwork:

Remus Aboard The Hogwarts Express.

Um, okay, I can't say that that particular bit of casting had ever occurred to me, but...

Anyway, not that this comes as a big surprise to anyone, but HP fandom is nuts... and Clay Aiken fandom is even nuttier. Heh.

I've just realized that there's barely a shred of HP content on the entire front page of my LJ. One would think I'd switched fandoms, or something. I haven't, honest! I'm still writing fic, at least in theory. I mean, I have that Alias/HP crossover WiP, the monumentally depressing Snape family fic (of which I've already written half of the next scene, only I keep forgetting it's there because Margot seems to have given up on me and stalked off in disgust), and...

Er...

Um, that's all I have at the moment, actually.

Agh! Maybe I am switching fandoms, or at least slowly drifting away from HP. But I loved ixchelmala and lizardlaugh's Funky Chess Theory With Ron=Dumbledore Bits, even if I'm not completely sure I believe all of it. And I'm working on a proposal for a presentation at conventionalley -- that has to count for something, right?

thegreenquill was wondering what had happened to this story I've been yammering about for ages, and whether there was any of it available for her to look at, so I figured, hey, why not.

The Artifact (Alias/HP crossover, set between"Firebomb" and "A Dark Turn", WiP)

It hasn't gone anywhere for a few months, but that doesn't mean I might not get inspired tomorrow or next week and finish it all off in a fevered bout of productivity. The bones of the story all there in my mind -- I just need to find the time and energy to flesh them out.

A few comments wouldn't hurt, either. :)

And yes, corngirl_jo, there will be more Sark in this story. Probably even more than I'd originally planned, now that I'm actually starting to enjoy his character instead of finding him only vaguely amusing as I did in the first two seasons.

Because multifandom icons are the wave of the future, and I'm totally pumped for both HP Book 5 and the ALIAS season finale...

Oh, and if you think the colours make it look like I'm implying Irina would be in Slytherin if she weren't a Muggle, why, how clever you are! Sark and Sloane are Slyths too, naturally. Syd and Vaughn are Gryffindor to the core. Jack is a Ravenclaw with Slytherin tendencies. And Marshall and Weiss, gotta love 'em, are Hufflepuffs.