Fannish 50 Challenge 2024: Post # 47: A Ficathon Walks Into A Bar

[ride_4ever]

My due South x Welcome to Night Vale crossover written for "A Ficathon Walks Into A Bar":

Title: The Gathering of Goudists (Turnbull Worships Cheese)
Fandoms: due South, Welcome to Night Vale
Rating: Teen and Up
Categories: Gen
Characters: Renfield Turnbull, Robert "Bob" Fraser, The Faceless Old Woman
Word count: 825

Summary: Constable Renfield Turnbull goes into Big Rico’s Pizza & Entertainment Zone in Night Vale and meets The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home.

Fic on AO3.

Comments

[verushka70]

omg I still love this delightfully absurd, perfectly mixed blend of WTNV eerieness (& humor) with dS magical realism & wackiness (& humor). I've got to listen to more WTNV - I'm sure it would enrich my reading of this - but even only having listened to about 1.5 seasons is plenty to enjoy this fic. 💜

[ride_4ever]

I don't know what season I'm up to in WtNV, just that I'm up to sixty-something episodes. So about how many episodes have you heard by having heard 1.5 seasons? (I've also read two WtNV novels -- not fic -- novels written by the WtNV creators.)

[verushka70]

I'm honestly not sure... it's through my podcast app (FOSS). I'll have to check.

I love that icon!

[ride_4ever]

All Hail The Glow Cloud Icon!

I listen to WtNV on YT (YouTube, not Yuletide LOL).

[verushka70]

I should do that! But I hate the YT ads. But I have a browser that blocks them, so... less rigmarole that way! :-)

[ride_4ever]

Yeah, the interruptions of the intrusive ads. Is my memory about that faulty or was there a time when the ads came "between" rather than "in the middle of"? I seem to recall such a time.

[verushka70]

No, your memory is not faulty: there was indeed a time when the ads were only in-between videos on Youtube... not in the middle of them.

Which is why I use the Brave Browser (which is based on Chrome) - it blocks all ads and trackers. Some technophiles say Brave itself tracks your behavior, but AFAIK it's only the way many apps do - anonymized and for bug-tracking purposes. But who knows. We're all tracked everywhere on the web, anyway. If I have to pick my battles - and apparently in this day and age, online, we do - then I'd rather be tracked by a browser that blocks all the OTHER trackers and ads, then not have ads and trackers blocked at all.

[ride_4ever]

I'd like to know more about this "Brave Browser".

[verushka70]

Well, you can read more about it at https://brave.com/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser).

Pros and cons of Brave Browser are listed at the end of the Wikipedia article, but I haven't experienced any of those issues.

Brave is funded by its own cryptocurrency, but you can turn off the ads on the Brave home screen if you want (I always do).

And, if you so desire, you can download and install it from https://brave.com/ - for Windows or Android smartphone.

I've been using it for a few years (last 2 phones - 3, including the one I have now) and ! have no complaints. It always blocks ALL ads on Youtube, for me - and that's with the default settings. I don't have to do a thing except install it. Right out of the box it blocks the maximum trackers and ads.

And, since it's based on Chrome, if you have any browser extensions in Chrome that you like, you can install them in Brave too!

[ride_4ever]

TYK for all this info!