Misc. linkage

[sholio]

I just found something cool - an online tool that you can type the names of any two cities into, and it'll tell you how far apart they are on the Earth's surface, and how long a nonstop flight between them would take.

https://www.happyzebra.com/distance-calculator/

On a completely and utterly different topic, this isn't one of my normal reading fandoms at all, but I recently stumbled across 8K of amazing X-Men (movieverse) Erik/Charles CRACK in which the X-Men are crabs living in a tidal rock pool and it has to be shared.

"Fuck off, Lehnsherr," the mantis shrimp said rudely.

Erik's pincers twitched in annoyance. The mantis shrimps were distant cousins, but if it were up to him, he'd prefer believing that Logan was a completely different species entirely. He didn't see why that would be so unreasonable - the things didn't even have the decency to have proper pincers, they had javelins for appendages. Erik had once watched Logan spear a passing squid with a lightning-fast movement, and had promptly decided that, much like decorator crabs, mantis shrimps were not to be trusted.

It's nice to know that SGA wasn't the only fandom prone to utterly cracky AUs.

Comments

[newredshoes]

Oh my gosh, for the days of yore and Girl Scout cookie AUs. That is pretty excellent crack!

[sholio]

It was an interesting time indeed. :D

[muccamukk]

That distance calculator thing is great! So many Quinjet flights worked out on it!

[madripoor_rose]

The distance calculator is a great find, thanks for sharing!

Hee! I wonder if there's any of the Migratory Fandom thing happening there, how many Shep/Rodney writers moved over to Charles/Erik....that usually explains widespread trends in Greater Fandom.

[kore]

OMG, that's cracky but kind of totally IC.

[alessandriana]

It's good to know crack AUs haven't totally died out. XD

[yalumesse]

Wow is that cracky crack crack. I know I've seen as weird ones before, but I'm hard pressed to think of anything weirdER.

[gwyn]

Hey, this is like the original crack AU fandom--The Professionals, way back when. Garden gnomes, crustaceans, socks. I kid you not.

[jadesfire]

I feel like there’s a thesis to be written on why and how some fandoms attract the really crazy crack. Like, Merlin had more AUs than any fandom I’ve ever seen, but it didn’t seem like there was much of the really ‘out there’ stuff. I’d love there to be some pseudoscience behind why ;)

[schneefink]

I would absolutely read this.

[lunabee34]

Ahahahahahahaa, Logan as mantis shrimp is gold.

[020104isme]

Thanks for the fic rec, I am definitely reading that one!

[rachelmanija]

I am sad that there are only two fics tagged "everyone is a crustacean." (The other is an MCU flashfic about sad hermit crab Bucky. http://archiveofourown.org/works/4995592)

Every fandom needs one.

[genarti]

Speaking as someone in the Les Misérables fandom: I assure you, SGA is not the only one. (Current Les Mis fandom goes in more for photosets of cracktastic AUs than full-on fics, but some of those exist too.) That tidepool AU sounds HILARIOUS, though, omg.