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I just got the coolest idea ever for an AR/AF crossover. 



I'd absolutely love to read a crossover between Alex Rider and Artemis Fowl that has some (or all) of these elements included:



- Alex meets Artemis Senior (the prisoner) when he's on a mission in Russia. Alex then does his best to help Artemis Senior before unforeseen elements force him to leave the man.

- Artemis Senior remembers Alex's deeds from when he was captured. He believes Alex is an abandoned orphan forced into working with the Russian Mafiya (or some other excuse you may invent to legitimize Alex's presence in Artemis Sr.'s jail-cell). Anyway, Artemis Sr. wishes to repay Alex so he Invites him to visit/live at Fowl Manor. 

- MI6 and Interpol wants information on Artemis Sr. and Jr. (but mainly on Artemis the Second) and they force Alex into a new mission (Think "Ark Angel"). 

- Alex ends up living in Fowl Manor, something that Artemis the Second first resents.

- Artemis is suspicious of Alex, but even he doesn't really suspect Alex to be a teen-aged spy. 

- Alex finds out about some of Artemis' deeds, but decides to keep it secret, appreciating and respecting Artemis' wish to rescue his father. 

- Artemis finds out something about Alex (he notices scars, barely healed wounds, his skill to lie and play different roles, his language skills etc.), but doesn't find out who Alex is employed by, or what he really does. This causes more friction between them.

- The Fowl Family is eventually targeted by an assassination attempt made by Scorpia and paid for by the Russian Mafiya. Alex saves the Family (with or without help from Butler).

- Alex gets a hint from the assassins that Yassen might not be as dead as he thought and he asks Artemis for help in finding out more. 

- Alex and Artemis eventually become great friends who mutually respect each-other. 



Obviously this will be slightly AU for both 'verses, but I think the awesomeness of the potential story would be worth it. 



Please, please, please! Someone write an AR/AF crossover. I don't care if it's from this idea or not. I just want a quality crossover with these fandoms. (Still, please credit me if you end up using any of my ideas.)





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Hello all!

I just found this amazing Alex Rider fic, and I had to pimp it out to all who could be interested. 


The fic is called Ask No Questions and it's written by Lil Lupin. 
Summary: After Jack decides she’s had enough, Alex is forced to live under the same roof as Wolf - fantastic. But what he discovers is a K unit that’s falling apart. Can he pull the team back together? Or is what they’ve been through too much for even Alex to fix?


It's decently written and the characters have been captured in a believable way. Alex is forced into a situation where he comes under the scrutiny of his former unit, and at the same time he's pulled into a deadly plot somehow connecting both him and the unit. 
This is one of the better AR-fic out there, easily on par withxaritomene's AR-fics. 

I hope you all enjoy! :D

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you all had a happy holiday. 


I have a fickle mind and right now it's focused on Hikaru no Go (HnG). 


In particular I want to promote esama's fanfiction Watch and Learn. The fic is complete and she's working on a sequel called Trial and error. Esama has a lot of great fanfiction. She writes in many fandoms and even delivers crossovers with regularity. She hasn't completed all of her stories, but even the unfinished ones are worth reading. Esama doesn't have English as her 1st language and as such her spelling and grammar isn't perfect, but it can be ignored easily in favor of her fics. 


  I've watched some of the anime episodes of Hikaru no Go and I've read the first three mangas, but I don't have the patience to watch or read 'till the series' end. It's the same as with the Prince of Tennis. I'm obsessed for a short while, then I lose interest and find something else to occupy my short attention span. 

It's kind of notable to note that I've returned to re-read esama's many fics more than twice.

I have major exam in two days on the subject of anatomy, physiology, pharmacology and hygiene... so naturally I'm not studying as I should, but rather keeping myself occupied by either reading manga, fanfiction or thinking about Alex Rider and what he'd do if he ever got another chance at space-travel - to planets far far away.

So, since my mind is a terrifying and dangerous place (it's far too easy to get lost in there), I began to think of Star Wars... and then Stargate.

So I began wondering if I'd ever be able to pull off a good Alex Rider/SG1-Crossover...

And then I came up with this:

“Crap!”
Alex couldn’t help but swear as he staggered to his feet. Looking around he saw nothing but burning desert-sand, an unforgiving bright and blazing sun, and of course the awesome, alien, metallic gate he’d just been thrown through.
Chuckling slightly hysterically to himself, he nearly tripped over a non-existent rock as he tried to find his own feet; in the end he let himself sink to the ground in order to properly gather his thoughts.
Alex snuck a glance to the Gate’s dialling device, but discarded the idea to dial the co-ordinations back to Earth. No doubt that path had been barred the moment he was found out. Unfortunately he’d only ever been taught the coordinates back to Earth. It seemed he was stranded on a deserted planet possibly millions of light-years away from his own world.
And it was all the CIA’s fault!

Sighing resignedly to himself, Alex went through his pockets in search for the aspirin he knew he’d put there. After the interrogation he’d just been through, the headache was killing him.



...Yeah! That's right, fear an exam-jittered mind!

Next on Alex Rider in outer space!

The Tok'ra!

The superest spies in the univers!

...until a certain Rider came along.


I'm seriously considering writing this fic someday (though knowing myself (and how awesomely many episodes og SG1 there are) I'd never finish the story).

...I'd better get back to my studies...

Review of  Dead Until Dark
 
Author: Charlaine Harris
 
Genre: Fantasy/Mystery
 
Dead Until Dark is the first novel in Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse series. 

The story is based near New Orleans in a small town called Bon Temps. The premise of the story is that  it has become a known fact that  vampires exist. After some japanese scientists managed to produce a blood-like substance with all the nutritional requirements necessary for vampires to survive,  vampirism began to get legalized. The fake blood goes by the apt name; Tru Blood. 

Sookie Stackhouse is the protagonist of the story. She is a young waitress working at a bar called Merlotte's (owned by Sam Merlotte). Sookie is a telepath and as such she has a hard time connecting with people on an intimate level.  Being a telepath means that she can read peoples' thoughts if she doesn't concentrate not to. Sookie has a tendency to come off as odd to other people. (If she's not careful to pay proper attention to the people around her, she sometimes answers their thoughts and not their spoken words... which naturally freaks people out.) Sookie is regarded as something between a crazy-person, an eccentric or a psychic by the people in her hometown.

Sookie's parents are both dead and she lives with her grandmother. She also has a womanizing brother called Jason.  

One night a vampire (Bill Compton) walks into the bar where Sookie works and from there on her life gets turned on its head.  Sookie  notices that she can't read the vampire's mind and immediately feels an attraction towards him because of this. 

Dead Until Dark has one main plot and many sub-plots that I suspect will come to fruition in later books. The main plot circles around the sudden murders that  keep occurring in Bon Temps after Bill's arrival to town. The primary suspect that the police have is Sookie's brother Jason, while the good people of Bon Temps are pegging vampires as the culprits. 

Sookie has to work hard and fast to solve the mystery as she fits the profile of the murdered victims to a tee. 

In the middle of all this, Sookie also has to worry about the involvement of  the powerful vampire Eric Northman, who has taken an interest in Sookie after learning about her special abilities. 

All in all the novel is an entertaining, but still easily read story. 

Some of the plot of the story is easy to predict, while other sub-plots are full of holes. (I presume that these holes will be explained in later novels.)

Sookie's romantic involvement with the vampire Bill happens a bit too quickly and I feel that the novel fails to properly convey all the feelings between Sookie and Bill. 

The story is fast-phased and leaves little time for character-development.  My impression is that most of the characters in the story appear static. They cling to their worldviews and refuse to change with the world around them.  You can see some character-growth in Sookie, but you don't get to know any of the other characters enough to really notice any growth. 

Still, the first novel  seems to play the role of being the prologue to the "full potential" of Sookie Stackhouse's world. We get introduced into a world where vampires have become legalized and where other supernatural beings are only hinted at (shapeshifters are confirmed). It's not hard to imagine the conflict lying in wait for this world both politically and religiously. 

I figure that the novel is worth the read if you like vampire-fiction and if you have a weekend where you only want to unwind and relax. There are better fantasy-fictions out there, but then again, there are worse too. 

If you want to read similar literature, you can check out Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake - Vampire Hunter series, or perhaps something by Kim Harrison. 

If you're not much of a reader you should know that the Sookie Stackhouse Series has been adapted by HBO into the TV-series True Blood. Be warned that there are many explicit sexual scenes in this program.