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Crossover Thinking

@crossoverthinking.bsky.social
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Just brainstorming a massive crossover fictional universe. If you have any idea's, feel free to chime in!

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Crossover Thinking @crossoverthinking.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you do not know @eriklarsen.bsky.social's Savage Dragon, it's a comic that has found itself growing in real time, starting back in the early 90s as one of Image's first books Over the last 3+ decades, we've seen Dragon have a son (Malcolm) and seen Malcolm grow up and even have kids of his own
Dragon's son Malcolm being bornMalcolm as a teenagerAn adult Malcolm as a police officerMalcolm with his wife and three kids
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Crossover Thinking @crossoverthinking.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here's how I've broken down my own "ages" for where my stories will fall. This lets me tell stories with a HP Lovecraft monster that's set close to the beginning of recorded time to stories set in the future with Starfleet boldly going where no one has gone before, and everywhere in between
Deep Time (Pre-10,000 BC)
Dreams & Blood (10,000 – 5000 BC)
Swords & Sorcery (5000 – 2000 BC)   
Heroes & Kingdoms (2000 BC – 1 AD)
Empires & Eagles (1 – 700 AD)
Shadows & Faith (700 – 1100)
Kings & Crossroads (1100 – 1500)
Gold & Gunpowder (1500 – 1700)
Crowns & Commerce (1700 – 1800)
Reason & Steam (1800 – 1900)
Pulp & Shadows (1900 – 1939)
World War II (1939 – 1945)
Atoms & Cold Wars (1945 – 1956)
The Dawn of the Superhero (1956–1969)
Mutants & Metahumans (1969 – 1984)
Secret Wars & Infinite Crisis (1985)
Decay & Darkness (1986 – 1999)
Twilight of the Superheroes (2000 – 2012)
Apocalypse & Aftershocks (2012 – 2040)
Ruins & Renewal (2040 – 2050)
Blood & Stars (2050 – 2060)
Frontiers & Federations (2060 – 2065)
Worlds & Wonders (2065 and beyond)
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Crossover Thinking @crossoverthinking.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And because like the tone or style of story changes over the years, I straight up stole a page from the RPG games from White Wolf, where they would have their games set in the modern day but then also have sourcebooks around the Dark Ages, Sorcerer's Crusade, Wild West, Victorian, Great War, etc.
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Crossover Thinking @crossoverthinking.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The origin for this came about when I read Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as well as Kim Newman's Anno Dracula, Alien vs Predator, the shows Dickensian and Penny Dreadful, and more
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Crossover Thinking @crossoverthinking.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At different times over the years I've tried to make the project work in a couple of different ways. I've tried straight fan fiction, I've tried gathering a group together to see if we could crack this nut, and I even tried a RPG universe, inspired by the Poet’s “World of Darkness: Mutants” game
The skeleton of a RPG website that I made; which had rules and a wikiA frame-based website for the Poet's "World of Darkness: Mutants"
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Crossover Thinking @crossoverthinking.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I just love crossovers...
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