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Do you want to do a crossover with me?
7424742 Send me details in a note and I will give you a definitive answer.
7425688 ok
7425688 The correct answer to that question is "No." if you are writing the story for your readers. If you're writing it for yourself, go crazy.
Crossover pros:
1) Introduces another, hopefully enjoyable work of fiction that the reader may not be aware of.
2) Acts as an agitator, to create new conflict and character development for the universe that is the focus of the crossover.
3) Provides decent filler for when the artist has writer's block.
Crossover cons:
1) The reader is reading your story to read your story. Crossovers jar one or both stories that readers are invested in and forces them to deal with one they aren't.
2) Story progression is limited to the universe that is the subject of the crossover, meaning it is always at the expense of one of the works participating.
3) The updating rate of all participating stories is limited to a fraction of the rate of the slowest updater in the crossover (IE the time it takes to send back and forth drafts, ideas, communicate, and write, as opposed to simply posting your own material which is godo to go as soon as it's edited).
4) Gaining extradimensional powers from crossovers is generally uninteresting to read. If we wanted stories about characters who have an answer to everything with or without asspulls, we'd be reading Batman or Superman comics.
5) They are filler, and as in point 3, they are filler that limits the rate at which both stories progress.
6) Crossovers are almost always, to put it bluntly, pissing contests between one plot-armored protagonist and another, because if they weren't and one got their ass beaten sideways with any lasting effects, it'd piss the readers of at least one of those stories right off.
7) They are cliche` of the sub-genre and many 'displaced' fics are nothing more than excuses for crossovers. (See The Dungeon Master of Equestria.)
8) The 'Displaced' archetype has existed so long by this point that we've all seen crossovers, both good and bad, and by this point you aren't adding anything particularly original with them to those who have read displaced fics before your own.
You'll notice most of the listed cons only really count for the readers of the fics. Some people like crossovers.. And then some people, bizarre as we are, would prefer to read the goddamn story we clicked on.
she had a nightmare and the scream was so loud they heard her in Cloudsdale, 10-1 odds you could have weaponized that shit.
Eh, I just cannot wait to see how she reacts to finding out she has a complex about her hair.
7493134 lol!!
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Her screaming was heard in Cloudsdale...
How much negative emotion do you think she gave off just then?
This fear of pinkie pie might be the stupidest character trait I've ever seen in my life
10107639 Things get better.