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Being that I'm one of the few fans out there who HAVEN'T broken down and watched the two new spoiler episodes of Avatar floating through the internets, I'm forced to find other ways to occupy my time.

I got to thinking about ships and cahracters based on fanon or OC characters or random what-if AUs, particularly for shows I've been fans of for a long time, or were older fandoms. Ideas that I never wrote about, or only read random snippets for by other ficcers. Example...


Inu Yasha: Inu Yasha and Kagome have a daughter, and their daughter grows up to marry Shippou. SHUT UP YOU KNOW ITS TRUE. SHE DECIDED IT WHEN SHE WAS FIVE.

Avatar TLA: Jet is the bastard war-rape son of Commander Zhoa, who probably sent the order for his village to burn. Their sociopathies have disturbing similarities. YES.

Fullmetal Alchemist: Marta and Greed were totally sleeping together. And Greed was once Dante's husband, whom she killed because she couldn't control him. Also, I am one of the maybe 11 people on the internet who ship Noa/Ed.

Doctor Who: Don Cheadle should be the 11th Doctor. IS THIS NOT BRILLIANT. Also, Rose meets Nine in her AU, while carrying 10's secret child. We all know that's what that last conversation on the beach was about.

Planet Earth on the Discovery Channel: all camera crews + me = 4 eva big love

Stephen King's The Dark Tower hypothetical future movie: Jake Gyllenhaal in 15-18 years, or Christian Bale in five.

Princess Tutu: Drosselemeyer is the Wizard of Oz, and one windy day Fakir too will know how it feels to lose a heart.
((IF MY F-LIST LOVES ME, SOMEONE WILL DRABBLE SERIES THIS. memlu? akavertigo? octopedingenue? flutingfrenzy? anyone?))

I am currently reading Stephen King's 5th Dark Tower book, Wolves of the Calla.

I know, I know. I'm horribly, horribly behind. And just last week he released the 7th and final book, the book to end his magnum opus, his masterpiece, his work to encompass all works.

And I'm still a book and a half behind! ::reads furiously::


Still, I bring all this up because I was think about "universes" in fandom and I've decided that I fall back on the Dark Tower approach.

You see, fandom likes to present each show/book/play/film/comic as existing in its own "verse." There's HarryPotterverse and WestWingverse and Buffyverse. And beyong Buffyverse, there is Jossverse. One can reflect on the fact that the "verses" of the Terminator films and the Matrix films are practically interchangeable-- The Matrix is what happens when John Conner and the rebels lose to the rise of the machines. Or that the crew of Serenity from Firefly might as well be flying around in the same space as the crew of The Bebop from Cowboy Bebop, because the settings for both shows are almost exactly the same.

You may even be pondering what will happen the day the Guold run into the Peacekeepers for the first time. Who will win: the space-Nazis or the psuedo-godly worms?

And of course, there's the fact that Highlander-verse is cross-able with absolutely anything and everything.

So where am I going with this? Back to the Dark Tower, of course.

Stephen King's Dark Tower series (The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three, The Waste Lands, Wizard and Glass, Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah, and The Dark Tower, respectively) are based on a concept that he has woven into all the fiction he's ever written: that in the end, all universes and all worlds converge, and at the center is the Dark Tower. He's even said that as he's written over his carreer and ever since he started writing the Dark Tower series (20 years ago?), he's come to realize that all his characters in some way belong to the universes and worlds surrounding the Dark Tower.

Now, having read 4 and 3/4 of the 7 book series over the course of the last 5 years, I have to say that in my head, it's bigger than that. The way Stephen King sets up the idea of his Dark Tower is so beautifully meta that I can't help but want to use it to encompass all fandoms everywhere. There's no such thing as a fanfic crossover that could never happen. Because they're all linked through the Dark Tower at the center of all universes.

In my head, every fandom verse is somehow a world that branches of from the Dark Tower. Stephen King, with his beautiful mind, has created a fandom with which I can cross or converge or tie-in any other fandom ever created.