Describe your work in 'X meets Y' form!

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A common way I've noticed people using to describe new books/movies/whatever to their friends is in what I call 'X meets Y' form. As in, 'Star Wars is like Akira Korusawa meets Flash Gordon'. It's not a perfect way to describe things, to be sure, but it often helps get the point across to people. Other times, it just sounds funny.

So, in the interest of good-natured fun and getting other people interested in out writing projects, I propose a thread where we talk about some of our own works in this fashion.

I'll start.

One of my stories, a high fantasy series, could perhaps be described as World Wars I and II meets Lord of the Rings meets Final Fantasy.

My on-indefinite-hiatus Young Adult novel is basically a pantheistic Percy Jackson meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with a little X-Men thrown in for good measure.

My current project is Illuminatus! meets League of Extraordinary Gentlemen meets Hellboy.

Wow. My writing is weird.
 
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I guess my current one is Ghost Ship meets Hunt for Red October meets The Shining?
 
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Lovecraft meets, um, me, and we go out for lots of ice cream. I mean, LOTS of ice cream. Then we spend a bloated but pleasant evening perusing the Necronomicon. Then Jane Austen and Susanna Clarke drop in, and we all play World of Whistcraft until Neil Gaiman shows up. That's when we hit the pubs.

Exactly!
 
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Ullysses meets The Odyssey meets The Bible meets The Idiot's Guide to Sex meets Gone With The Wind.


Meets Shakespeare.
 
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Phaeal said:
Lovecraft meets, um, me, and we go out for lots of ice cream. I mean, LOTS of ice cream. Then we spend a bloated but pleasant evening perusing the Necronomicon. Then Jane Austen and Susanna Clarke drop in, and we all play World of Whistcraft until Neil Gaiman shows up. That's when we hit the pubs.
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If this is an average evening, can I come stay at your house? Please? I'll bring Laphroaig...or my sister's ginned damsons. They're great with icecream.

As for me - the last one was kind of Small Gods meets The Crimson Petal and the White, and the current one is more like The Seven Samurai meets Gibbons' Decline and Fall.
 
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The third Rock From the Sun meets Beetlejuice.(Beetleuice)

ETA: Good catch Max
 
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Phaeal said:
Lovecraft meets, um, me, and we go out for lots of ice cream. I mean, LOTS of ice cream. Then we spend a bloated but pleasant evening perusing the Necronomicon. Then Jane Austen and Susanna Clarke drop in, and we all play World of Whistcraft until Neil Gaiman shows up. That's when we hit the pubs.

Exactly!
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Reminds me this webcomic called Young Lovecraft. An arc goes around Howie and Siouxie from Siouxie And The Banshees (both go to elementary school in turn-of-the-century New England) go to visit Edgar Allan Poe's grave and do a siance, only to find out he, Baudelaire and Valery spend eternity getting drunk in Poe's crypt critizicing each other's work.
 
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This is hard. I don't normally compare my work to others out in the market. Hm.

I guess my current WIP would be Percy Jackson meets LOTR.

Though one WIP that I've been working on for a few years is definately Fight Club meets Lord of the Flies. :D
 

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Phaeal said:
Lovecraft meets, um, me, and we go out for lots of ice cream. I mean, LOTS of ice cream. Then we spend a bloated but pleasant evening perusing the Necronomicon. Then Jane Austen and Susanna Clarke drop in, and we all play World of Whistcraft until Neil Gaiman shows up. That's when we hit the pubs.

Exactly!
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I think I'm in love. :heart: No! Bad Moogi! You already have a girlfriend!

Seriously, though, I must read this story.
 

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The one I'm rewriting is Andrei Tarkovsky meets Final Fantasy.

Another is War and Peace meets Stand on Zanzibar.

One I have planned is The Walking Dead meets Rashomon meets The Book of the New Sun.
 
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My most recent short story: The documentary America's National Parks meets Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.

My completed novel: Michelle Moran's Nefertiti meets all the parts of George R. R. Martin's books where likable characters die horribly and unexpectedly.

My work in progress: Richard Adams meets Richard Dawkins.
 
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