Crossovers, fusions, and AUs in FKFicFest

[brightknightie]

We've had crossovers in fkficfest, but it wandered through my mind today that I can't seem to recall, off the top of my head, any fusions (as distinct from crossovers)* or the most typical sorts of "total"/"mundane" AUs (like, coffee shop AU, high-school AU, band AU).

In this year's game, I'll be sure to list those specifically as allowed, along with crossovers, at the "minimum 51% Forever Knight, however you choose to measure it" threshold.

(This thought is brought to you by the notion of Janette, not Guinan, running Ten-Forward on the Enterprise-D.)

* Addendum: Apologies! I'm probably mis-defining "crossover" versus "fusion," and I may well have blown it entirely on how to reference AUs! Of course the fest has enjoyed future!fic and space and pirates and many things. I should be more careful with vocabulary I don't know well! And with times my memory is clearly failing.

Comments

[thefruitbat]

Now I can totally see Janette throwing (literally) Worf out of Ten-Forward because he had too much. XD

Looking forward to this year's FkFicFest. :)

[brightknightie]

Ridiculously pedantic me: I seem to recall that Worf's beverage of choice was prune juice, rather than an intoxicant... ;-)

[senmut]

A factoid from the novels - prune juice as a Klingon drink came from the novels (John Ford, I believe was the first to use it) and it is mildly intoxicating to them.

[brightknightie]

Oh, I didn't know that. All these years, I thought Worf's on-screen line about prune juice being a warrior's drink was a meta joke about prune juice's unpleasant taste and effects on the gastrointestinal tract.

[greerwatson]

A matter of preference, clearly. I love prune juice! I do agree about its effects, though: it has to be taken in small quantities.

[thefruitbat]

Yes, I know.
But it would look just hilarious if she bodily threw him out, like he weighed nothing, and then went back to the bar and polishes a glass or something. The rest of the patrons just goes silent, eyes huge, and she just raises an eyebrow and asks: "What? Seriously, he had it coming. Told him last time, in the holodeck simulation of the wild west, that I'd do it to him if he misbehaved in my establishment. He didn't believe me."
*normal noises resume*

...I might have a weird sense of humour.