The maddest crossover of all time?

Remember The Lonely Goatherd? Did you think that was my maddest challenge fic? How about Noggin and the Vampire? I bet you thought that was as weird as crossovers go.

Wrong. In her comments to my crazy recent fic “The Island” trepkos challenged me to write a Fairy!Spike/Rupert the Bear crossover. And I’ve done it.

Rupert the Bear is a children’s cartoon strip that has been running in the ‘Daily Express’ newspaper since the 1920s. I don’t know if it’s currently running, but it certainly was as recently as 2003, and it’s hardly changed at all in all those years. Traditionally the story is told in rhyming couplets accompanying the picture frames, with a section of conventional prose following each set of pictures. I’ve followed the same style, although of course without the pictures, and I make no apologies for the quality of my couplets because they were pretty dire in the originals. Those not familiar with the cartoon strip itself may have seen Paul McCartney’s video “The Frog Song” (aka “Rupert and the Frog Chorus”).

3,600 words; rating at least R. Maybe NC-17, although I don’t think so. Read at your own risk.

( Rupert and the Fairy Spike )

The maddest crossover of all time?

Remember The Lonely Goatherd? Did you think that was my maddest challenge fic? How about Noggin and the Vampire? I bet you thought that was as weird as crossovers go.

Wrong. In her comments to my crazy recent fic “The Island” trepkos challenged me to write a Fairy!Spike/Rupert the Bear crossover. And I’ve done it.

Rupert the Bear is a children’s cartoon strip that has been running in the ‘Daily Express’ newspaper since the 1920s. I don’t know if it’s currently running, but it certainly was as recently as 2003, and it’s hardly changed at all in all those years. Traditionally the story is told in rhyming couplets accompanying the picture frames, with a section of conventional prose following each set of pictures. I’ve followed the same style, although of course without the pictures, and I make no apologies for the quality of my couplets because they were pretty dire in the originals. Those not familiar with the cartoon strip itself may have seen Paul McCartney’s video “The Frog Song” (aka “Rupert and the Frog Chorus”).

3,600 words; rating at least R. Maybe NC-17, although I don’t think so. Read at your own risk.

( Rupert and the Fairy Spike )