Well that's why I don't write much crack, to be honest. I did the Sam/Pencil-case crack and really, you put in 'Annie' for 'pencil-case' and it would just be a regular story!!! But for me that IS the joke. That's the only way I made it out of the Thursday Next/LoM crack!fic cross with my brain intact, was to take the character of Thursday seriously. (Of course I am the kind of sick bastard who prefers it when Mike Meyers plays it 'straight' ("So I Married an Ax Murderer") and cannot stand the man as a broad comic ("Ausin Powers [makes me gag]").
(I have actually tried to write a fem!Gene story (how cracky can you GET?) and while there are funny parts to it I basically I turned it into a melodrama about gender issues and questioning sexuality. WTF? )
But as for the rest, everyone gets into fandom for different reasons. Some people really find deep satisfaction in the cheap laughs. I just enjoy them for what they are.
As for crossovers, you nailed it: They need to be somewhat compatible, of course, and there needs to be a point. Most of the time there isn't, and if there isn't, then it is lost on me, because I can almost lay money on the fact that I won't be a fan of the other half of the cross, if I've ever even heard of it (my fandoms are pathologically limited!! LOL!). But hey, to each their own. Some people love 'em. Go, them!
A bit OT, but I think it is very interesting how much the LoM comm tears things up. Hooker!verse and Psycho!Samatic Cylce were real shocks to me; I admire both a lot but I cannot fathom the mindset that would want to do that to a character you love. I wrote "Ripe" just to see if I COULD do something like that and yes, I could...but I don't want to. Very interesting subject, to me, more than the crack!fic.
Re: Doesn't explain why there's more crack here than elsewhere, though, does it?
(I have actually tried to write a fem!Gene story (how cracky can you GET?) and while there are funny parts to it I basically I turned it into a melodrama about gender issues and questioning sexuality. WTF? )
But as for the rest, everyone gets into fandom for different reasons. Some people really find deep satisfaction in the cheap laughs. I just enjoy them for what they are.
As for crossovers, you nailed it: They need to be somewhat compatible, of course, and there needs to be a point. Most of the time there isn't, and if there isn't, then it is lost on me, because I can almost lay money on the fact that I won't be a fan of the other half of the cross, if I've ever even heard of it (my fandoms are pathologically limited!! LOL!). But hey, to each their own. Some people love 'em. Go, them!
A bit OT, but I think it is very interesting how much the LoM comm tears things up. Hooker!verse and Psycho!Samatic Cylce were real shocks to me; I admire both a lot but I cannot fathom the mindset that would want to do that to a character you love. I wrote "Ripe" just to see if I COULD do something like that and yes, I could...but I don't want to. Very interesting subject, to me, more than the crack!fic.