Matrix Refugee and the crossover of peril
Mar. 31st, 2008 10:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matrixrefugeeOkay... getting my hands on a copy of Small Favor, aka TDF 10, will be happening in hopefully less than twelve hours. I might even take an early bus to get to Burlington to pick up my pre-order. So, I'm tiding myself over by re-rereading the books and short stories. I'm halfway through White Night and I doubt I'll finish it by tomorrow, so I might re-reread the short stories before I go to bed... So, I thought I'd look around for some (sssshhh! Don't tell Jim Butcher's rules-lawyers) fanfiction.
Maybe there's a reason they're not too keen on fanfiction. Maybe, unwittingly, they're trying to protect us from badfic.
For chuckles, I went on ff.n, aka the Pit of Voles, to see what I could see. I should have heeded the warning of a young new poster on the Jim Butcher forums.
I offer this for your perusal:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3657032/1/Two_Wizards_One_Name
Yes, it's a Harry Potter crossover. Mind you, I think it *could* work, but it would take a lot of dancing around to rectify the vast differences between the two universes. For starters: the magic doesn't even work the same way. Jim Butcher pretty much based the Dresden-verse magic on the laws of physics and made it plausible, plus he used a lot of concepts from actual magic as it's practised. It's the sort of stuff you could almost see happening, he's presented it so credibly. J.K. Rowlings pretty much used random ideas, though she *did* borrow concepts from mythology and folklore for her critters. Plus, HP wizards practically live in the Never-Never, while most TDF wizards live in a world not much unlike ours, aside from the odd occurrances that happen under the regular folks' noses.
Aside from that...
Grammar is wonky. So is spelling, up to and including character names (Who's this "Karen Murphy" that's working with Harry. Commas appear only randomly. Characterization of the non-original characters is a bit off, though Harry Dresden has a few lines that are almost Jim Butcher-worthy ("I don’t think it was Publishers Clearing House here with a check" -- that made me giggle). And let's not get started on Katrina "Kat" James; thankfully, she doesn't hog the limelight (much), and we aren't saddled with a lengthy and urplish description of her looks, but there is something about her that twigs my Mary Sue-dar. Oh, and when talking about Mab and Maeve (man, she correctly spelled the one I thought the fankiddies would mangle...), just what are the "Saide"? I thought they were the Sidhe?
It's not GAFF-worthy, and the author *is* only sixteen, plus I think she's only just exploring the Dresden-verse, so I'm trying not to be hard on her.
Maybe there's a reason they're not too keen on fanfiction. Maybe, unwittingly, they're trying to protect us from badfic.
For chuckles, I went on ff.n, aka the Pit of Voles, to see what I could see. I should have heeded the warning of a young new poster on the Jim Butcher forums.
I offer this for your perusal:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3657032/1/Two_Wizards_One_Name
Yes, it's a Harry Potter crossover. Mind you, I think it *could* work, but it would take a lot of dancing around to rectify the vast differences between the two universes. For starters: the magic doesn't even work the same way. Jim Butcher pretty much based the Dresden-verse magic on the laws of physics and made it plausible, plus he used a lot of concepts from actual magic as it's practised. It's the sort of stuff you could almost see happening, he's presented it so credibly. J.K. Rowlings pretty much used random ideas, though she *did* borrow concepts from mythology and folklore for her critters. Plus, HP wizards practically live in the Never-Never, while most TDF wizards live in a world not much unlike ours, aside from the odd occurrances that happen under the regular folks' noses.
Aside from that...
Grammar is wonky. So is spelling, up to and including character names (Who's this "Karen Murphy" that's working with Harry. Commas appear only randomly. Characterization of the non-original characters is a bit off, though Harry Dresden has a few lines that are almost Jim Butcher-worthy ("I don’t think it was Publishers Clearing House here with a check" -- that made me giggle). And let's not get started on Katrina "Kat" James; thankfully, she doesn't hog the limelight (much), and we aren't saddled with a lengthy and urplish description of her looks, but there is something about her that twigs my Mary Sue-dar. Oh, and when talking about Mab and Maeve (man, she correctly spelled the one I thought the fankiddies would mangle...), just what are the "Saide"? I thought they were the Sidhe?
It's not GAFF-worthy, and the author *is* only sixteen, plus I think she's only just exploring the Dresden-verse, so I'm trying not to be hard on her.