All right, drivers, just a quick bing bong before we resume our regularly-scheduled madness.
It's been brought to attention that there has been an increase in crossover fills. This in and of itself is not the problem, but rather that these fills are answering prompts that did not ask for crossovers.
Now, crossovers are great, and we want neither to discourage them nor fillers writing fills to prompts that jump out at them. But I would like to point out that not everyone is familiar with whatever fandom you may be crossing over. It can be very disheartening to receive a fill that you do not understand or aren't able to follow because you don't know the canon of the other fandom.
If you want to write a crossover prompt to a fill that doesn't specify a crossover, you can do one of several things:
Ask the OP if a crossover with X fandom is OK. If yes, then fill away.
If for whatever reason they don't want a crossover, you are by all means still welcome to write whatever bunny burrowed its way into your head! The last thing we want to discourage is creativity. Once you've finished your fic, there are plenty of people over at cabin_pressure who would love to read it. If you want to let people know that it's inspired by a certain fill, you are again more than welcome to!
And you may also want to check out the prompt index, under the crossover and fusion tags. There may be an older prompt that fits your idea, and I'm sure the OP would love to read your fic.
I believe that is it for today. If you've any questions, don't hesitate to ask. If there are a lot of questions, we'll move to the chat post to prevent flooding this page. Now, resume filling and prompting to your hearts' desire.
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All right, drivers, just a quick bing bong before we resume our regularly-scheduled madness.
It's been brought to attention that there has been an increase in crossover fills. This in and of itself is not the problem, but rather that these fills are answering prompts that did not ask for crossovers.
Now, crossovers are great, and we want neither to discourage them nor fillers writing fills to prompts that jump out at them. But I would like to point out that not everyone is familiar with whatever fandom you may be crossing over. It can be very disheartening to receive a fill that you do not understand or aren't able to follow because you don't know the canon of the other fandom.
If you want to write a crossover prompt to a fill that doesn't specify a crossover, you can do one of several things:
Ask the OP if a crossover with X fandom is OK. If yes, then fill away.
If for whatever reason they don't want a crossover, you are by all means still welcome to write whatever bunny burrowed its way into your head! The last thing we want to discourage is creativity. Once you've finished your fic, there are plenty of people over at
And you may also want to check out the prompt index, under the crossover and fusion tags. There may be an older prompt that fits your idea, and I'm sure the OP would love to read your fic.
I believe that is it for today. If you've any questions, don't hesitate to ask. If there are a lot of questions, we'll move to the chat post to prevent flooding this page. Now, resume filling and prompting to your hearts' desire.