The BtVS/Ats Crackficathon!

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It seems to me we're due for some silliness in these our beloved BtVS/Ats fandoms. Crackfic to the rescue! Fanlore defines crack as "fiction with a fundamentally ludicrous premise, or otherwise including a plethora of unbelievable, incredible, or just plain silly elements - that is, implying the author/artist must have been on drugs to produce something so insane."

So what cracky thing have you been pining for? Wingfic? Genderswap? Or maybe it's time someone wrote the fic where it really is bunnies! Whatever your crack of choice, here's the chance to read and write glorious crack for the gloriously cracky shows we love.


THINGS TO KNOW:
* Prompt fills can be one sentence, three sentences, a drabble, a ficlet, or any other length you feel moved to write.

* If your fill is too long for one comment, you're welcome to post it to your own journal and just post a link here.

* Crack often tends towards the fluffy, light-hearted side of things, but it totally doesn't have to. You want to angst that bodyswap prompt 'til it can't angst no more? Be our guest! Giggles and grief are both welcome here.

* I've turned comment notifications off on this entry, so if you have questions, feel free to reply to the question thread below.

* ETA: I've been calling this the crackficathon because I personally am ficcishly as opposed to graphically inclined, but some of these prompts are just begging for art. So if you're feeling the urge to fill a prompt with art instead of fic? I'm pretty sure NO ONE WILL MIND.


PROMPTING:
* Prompt format: [characters] - [type of crack requested] - [OPTIONAL - additional prompt (word, phrase, song lyric, etc)]

* In the title line of your fic reply, indicate [title, characters, type of crack, rating]


MASTERLIST
The masterlist of completed works is here.


SO WHAT COUNTS AS 'CRACK' ANYWAY?
Below the cut is a quick-and-dirty list (partially culled from the list of fic cliches over at the DW fanbingo comm) to help get you thinking in the right direction. Really, though, if you think something is cracky? We probably ain't going to disagree with you. Go wild!

A LIST TO GET YOU STARTED

Genderswap	Bodyswap / Bodyshare	Age Regression	Fusion with Another Fandom	Cracky Crossovers	Crack Pairings
Physical / Animal Transformation	Time Loops	Time Travel	Mpreg	Wingfic	Mary Sue / Marty Stu
Author Self-Insertion	Tentacles	Sex Pollen / Aliens Made Us Do It / etc	Truth Serum / Spells	Androids and Robots	Slavefic
Inanimate Object AU	Historical AU	Sci-fi / Space AU	Animal AU	Doppelgangers / Clones

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Comments

Questions! Comments! Commentary!

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Okay, y'all, what did I forget to say? Tell me all about it here.

Re: Questions! Comments! Commentary!

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OMG YAY I AM SO EXCITED!

Re: Questions! Comments! Commentary!

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YAY YAY YAY.

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The Adventures of Mr. Gordo and Feigenbaum

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Crossover with The Vampire Diaries - Through some shenanigans, Angel ends up meeting Stefan and Lexi. Stefan and Angel compare tortured histories and try to out-brood each other and Lexi mocks them. Obviously.

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There must be penguins.

Eloping with Mr Gordo.

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Doctor Who crossovers - The Doctor accidentally loses his key to the TARDIS and it turns out that Dawn is the only Key that can open it again

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Crossover with Veronica Mars - Veronica and Buffy end up investigating the same "case" and have to team up to save the world while their snarky boyfriends (Logan and Spike, obvs) commiserate about life with tiny blonde heroes who think they have to save everyone

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Crossover with Being Human - Ghost!Spike (in AtS S5) gets some advice on ghostly living from Annie

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Angelus - Cracky Crossover - Angelus is in London and he needs a shave, so he goes to Sweeney Todd's. There's much wariness, and also bonding over a mutual appreciation of necks.

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Crossover with Parks and Recreation - Leslie decides that since the last penguin marriage was a rousing success (er...didn't turn out too bad) to do it again. Only this time the penguins are Buffy and Spike, and of course things get out of hand.

THAT'S RIGHT. PARKS AND REC SPUFFY PENGUIN FIC.

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Animal adversaries: Xander does indeed discover that it's the bunnies.

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Androids/Robots: There's a Harmony!bot loose on the mean streets of wherever it is.

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mpreg: Lorne didn't see this one coming. And he's a very long way from a Pylean midwife.

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Spike/Buffy - historical AU - Spike's an outlaw cowboy vamp and Buffy's the one sharpshooter in all the world who can stop him.

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Time travel: Illyria transports Wesley back in time, to before Fred is infected. (I'm thinking maybe Groundhog Day failing to save her, but whatever this leads to is good.)

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Author Self-Insertion (sort of) - Slayer of your choice battles vamp/monster/whatever in some venue you personally know really well (your backyard, the local movie theater, whatever)

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Faith - wingfic - A vampire in Pylea turns all spiky; it turns out a Slayer in Pylea gets bonus wings. Which makes Faith some freaky kind of angel, right?

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Spike - time travel - S7!Spike goes back to S2 for some Macguffin, and ends up asking, ah, himself for help.

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Wesley - doppelganger - Wes is the only major character not to have an alter ego in canon. I want to know who he would have been. (Robots are optional, so is genderswap. Or tentacles.)

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Giles or ensemble - inanimate object AU - the Vampyr tome is pretty important in the Watchers' world. You thought it was just a book?

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Blackadder crossover - Bob the Vampire Slayer

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So are we talking a threesome here? Or is Mr. Gordo just along for the ride?

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With most of the tweedy old watchers dead and active Slayers all around the globe needing standardised recommendations, the new organisation decides to switch to Metric. Chaos ensues.

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If nobody else grabs this before Monday, I'm so writing it.