Schrodinger's Heroes: Menu Post

[ysabetwordsmith]

This is all about creating a fandom for a television show that doesn't actually exist. The idea was launched by melannen as a frame for "101 Asexy Sex Scenes" so there is attention to the sexual orientation of the characters with positive representation of asexuality and diversity. After some discussion with various folks, I created a description and some other materials for the apocryphal television show Schrodinger's Heroes  and its imaginary fandom.  It wound up with lots of gender and racial diversity, complex characters, and thought-provoking themes. The show follows the adventures of several scientists and their friends as they attempt to manage dimension-spanning technology, fight evil, and not blow up anyone's personal life.  

This post provides links to all the material that I've written and posted from the show and its fandom.  Schrodinger's Heroes  is an open-source project; everyone is welcome to play with it.  If you do, please let me know what you create; I try to include links to things by other people too.  Feedback is encouraged.

Do you enjoy this project?  It's crowdfunded.  There is a permanent tip jar in my LiveJournal profile if you'd like to encourage me to write more of this.


CANON

About the Show

Characters
Part 1: Excerpts from "101 Asexy Sex Scenes"
Part 2: Melannen's Characters
Part 3: Ysabetwordsmith's Characters
Part 4: Multiple Intelligences
Part 5: Religion

The Television Show
Theme Song: "Wanted Alive or Dead"
Part 1: Aired Episodes
Part 2: Unaired Episodes
Part 3: Unscreened Episodes
Part 4: Napkin Episodes

Advance Advertising Scripts
"Alex and Bailey in the Closet"
"Pat Meets Ash"
"Kay and Quinn in the Office"
"Bailey Brings Morgan to the Compound"


FANON

Crossover Content
"... And Relative Dimensions" Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5  (Dr. Who)
"French Military Victories" Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (Anita Blake)
"HALware" Part 1, Part 2 (Space Odyssey)
"If It Doesn't Work ..." (Batman)
"The Lobster Door" (Lilo & Stitch)
"Saving the Heroes" Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 (The Avengers)
"Settling" (His Dark Materials)
"His Eyes Uncovered" (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

The Herolock Series  (BBC Sherlock)
"THE Woman" Part 1 , Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 
"Texas Sunrise" Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 
"Seeing Things" Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 
"Fighting Through the Fog" Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 
"Still Alive" 
"Updating the Database" Part 1, Part 2 
"Studying Scarlett" 
"The Waxahachie Tea Party" 
"Smoke and Thunder" Part 1, Part 2 
"Unbridled Scold" Part 1, Part 2 
"Observation, Deduction"
"Kitchen Courtesies"
"Pi Fight"

The Schrodinger's Hulk Series  (The Incredible Hulk / The Avengers)
"Safe Keeping" Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 
"Two Spirits, One Past" Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12 
"For the Very First Time"
"The Path of the Sun" Part 1, Part 2, Part 3


















"Lior's Dream" by thesilentpoet (64-squared)
"Hal's Nightmare" by thesilentpoet (64-squared)
"A Crack in the Maelstrom" by thesilentpoet (64-squared)

"The Tentacle Monster Chronicles" by primeideal (Animorphs)
"Taxicab Geometry" by primeideal  (Numb3rs)
"The Shirt Off Her Back" by primeideal (Revolution)
"All Politics Is Local" by primeideal (@MayorEmanuel)


Crossover Descriptions 
Crossovers (Part 1)
Crossovers (Part 2)
Crossovers (Part 3)

Fan Content
"Army Moves in Ineffectually" by dialecticdreamer 
"Attention to Detail"
"Barrette's Private Ears" filk by thnidu 
"Black and Blue in Waxahachie"
"Ex Machina" by primeideal 
"Insulating Layers"
"Kid in a Candy Shop"
"Learning to Fit In"
"Lightbulb Joke"
"Make Them Do It"
"One Plus One" by dialecticdreamer Part 1, Part 2
"The Red Hand"
"String Theory" by jtthomas 
"Testing the Waters" Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
"Toasters" by primeideal 
"Verbs Not Nouns" Part 1 & Part 2

The Don't Try This at Home Series
"Sloppy and Wet"
"Don't Try This at Home"
"Moving Through the Water"
"With Your Heart Open"
"Mixer Bookmark"
"Believing What You Know Ain't So"
"Friends, Family, and Fireworks"
"When I've Chosen the Dark Side"
"A Faithful Friend and a Good Library"
"Touching Scenes"
"Strong and Fragile"
"As a Model for Others"

The Orange!verse Series  by chanter_greenie 
"Adjacent Universe Splatter"
"Taking the Long Path"
"Musical Gift"
"Dual Path Echo"
"Keeping a Logbook" 
"Halo"
"Jij Bent Zo"
"Local Interference"
"Cat's in the Cradle"
"Signal Strength"
"Meteor Scatter"
"Outbander"
"Open Carrier" 
"Carrier Wave" (in progress)
"In the Clear"
"Legal ID"
"Modulation"
"Ragchew"
"QRM" 
"Parliament Hill's Reply"


Famous Fanfic Descriptions
Fanfic (Part 1)
Fanfic (Part 2)

Fanon Trivia
Fanon (Part 1)
Fanon (Part 2)

LOL_Heroes
Ace!Schrodinger
Alter!Alex
Alter!Ash
Alter!Bailey
Alter!Chris
Alter!Dusty
Alter!Jayden
Alter!Kay
Alter!Midge
Alter!Morgan
Alter!Pat
Alter!Quinn
Alter!Tim
Alter!Vic
Alters Together
Cake Is For Aces
Catnip
Chaotic Neutral Schrodinger
Cottoncandy Bingo Card 1, 3B-3O
Evil!Schrodinger Aces
Evil!Schrodinger Alone
Good and Evil
Miscellaneous Aces
Saash (crossover from Feline Wizards)
Schrodinger by Himself
Rusty
Star
Valentines

Poems
"Ad Astra Per Aspera"
"Alpha Bets"
"The Alpha Vector"
"Applied Physicists, and Friends"
"Bedroom Eyes"
"Breakdown" by primeideal 
"Building Where We Are"
"By Any Stretch"
"The Care and Feeding of Heroes"
"The Cat's Pajamas"
"Catting Around"
"Chromatic Shrift"
"Come In, Please"
"Cover Stories"
"Crazy Fun in the House of Mirrors"
"Crosswise"
"Cycling through the Options"
"Defaced"
"Defragging the Wetdrive"
"Differently Abled Heroes"
"Door Ajar" 
"The Door to Nowhere" (crossover with P.I.E.)
"The Dream Coat"
"Earning His Stripes"
"Electric Tesseract"
"Entanglement"
"Equal and Opposite"
"For Life's Sake"
"For Whose Sake" (crossover with Polychrome Heroics)
"Forfeiture"
"Fraying Strings"
"Friends, Family, and Fireworks"
"Friendships Are Like Clothes"
"Games and Catastrophes"
"Getting a Room"
"Good Graces"
"Hearts of Stone"
"How to Table the Topic of World Salvation"
"Hypercube Roots" (crossover with Monster House)
"In Drab Silence"
"The Last Plane to Heaven"
"The Life of Breath"
"Like Cherries Harmonizing Pussycats"
"Like the Sun"
"Los Despiertos"
"Moving Through the Water"
"New Beginnings" by thesilentpoet 
"Newton's Laws of Motion Sickness"
"Of Alchemy and Quantum Physics"
"Of Cats and Cosmic Strings"
"Of Portals and Magic Potions"
"Ohana"
"On With Their Work" by Catherine Faber
"The Other Way Around"
"Pat's Place"
"Pawprints on the Heart"
"Picking Up the Signals"
"Prank Calls" by thesilentpoet 
"Profusion"
"Quinn's Nursery"
"Return to Center"
"Sauce for the Gander"
"Scarlett Bond"
"Schrodinger's Human"
"Shifts" by mdlbear 
"Shiny Little Things" (crossover with Polychrome Heroics: Aquariana)
"Sloppy and Wet"
"Speakin' in Tongues"
"Stacking the Deck"
"The Suspense Is Thrilling Me"
"A Taste of Attraction"
"Texas Foldem"
"To Lose Yourself in the Service"
"Tourbillon"
"The Traction Factor"
"Treasured by Me"
"Waiting Hand and Foot"
"Warm Fuzzies"
"Waxahachie's One-Day Winter"
"Week 3! Day 3!" by Stefanie Maclin aka thesilentpoet 
"When I've Chosen the Dark Side"
"When You Have to Go There"
"Who Let the Dogs Out?" by primeideal 
"Why Ash Loves Alex"
"Why Ash Loves Quinn"
"You Think You've Got Tribbles?"


SEE ALSO
"Nonsexual Intimacies" Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5


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Comments

[briar_pipe]

Thanks for posting your stories for this verse on AO3! That's how I was able to find them. (And now I want to read ALL the series, because omg how so awesome?)

Just FYI, I went to wrangle the tags, too, since they overlapped with Avengers and were unwrangled. There are now canonical tags in the format "Name (Schrodinger's Heroes)" because someone used that format and it looked workable. (It also follows our guidelines for single-name characters, which get shared a lot between fandoms.)

Anyway, if you want, you're welcome to come have a look and let me know if there are any characters who didn't show up in the fandom but were used on the archive. (They may have been common single names and gone automatically to another spot, but I can make versions with the fandom name in them as above.) I can't wrangle the Sherlock crossover relationships, but now that there are character tags to work with, the Sherlock team can do that.

You're welcome!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Thanks for posting your stories for this verse on AO3! That's how I was able to find them. <<

Yay, that's good to hear!

>> (And now I want to read ALL the series, because omg how so awesome?) <<

Schrodinger's Heroes is the kind of TV I'd like to watch, that doesn't exist, so I made some up. I can't make TV shows but I can write. I'm intrigued that what started out as an imaginary fandom has become very real, with more people writing for it than just me. There's actually another person doing a series -- chanter_greenie has a very cool premise of neocon dystopian politics and amateur radio in the Orange!Verse stories. There's a lot of material built up across background, fiction, poetry, scripts, LOL_HEROES, etc. Have fun browsing, and feel free to ask me if you have any questions.

>>Just FYI, I went to wrangle the tags, too, since they overlapped with Avengers and were unwrangled.<<

Thank you SO much! I really appreciate this.

>> There are now canonical tags in the format "Name (Schrodinger's Heroes)" because someone used that format and it looked workable. (It also follows our guidelines for single-name characters, which get shared a lot between fandoms.)<<

Yeah, when I first started, I just put in the single names. Then I spotted the parenthetical form on another fandom, and tried using that. Sometimes it saved, sometimes the system ate the qualifiers. But eventually it stuck. I have gone back and edited my Schrodinger's Heroes entries to use the new canonical tags.

I like crossing Avengerverse with Schrodinger's Heroes. They mesh nicely.

>>Anyway, if you want, you're welcome to come have a look and let me know if there are any characters who didn't show up in the fandom but were used on the archive.<<

I checked, and it looks like you caught them all.

>>I can't wrangle the Sherlock crossover relationships, but now that there are character tags to work with, the Sherlock team can do that.<<

That's okay. Hopefully they'll get to it.

There are a lot of Schrodinger's Heroes crossovers, because I designed it to be crossover-friendly and because it's an open-source fandom so anyone can play with it. thesilentpoet did a batch crossing with 64-squared and primeideal did crossovers with a whole handful of different series. It's really fun to see where other people take this.

Thanks again for helping out.

Question

[ysabetwordsmith]

I thought of something else regarding tags in Schrodinger's Heroes. Morgan actually has two different canonical appearances, female!Morgan (the original) and male!Morgan (the replacement). I've written both, though I think I've only posted male!Morgan or unspecified stuff on AO3. I didn't think of tagging Morgan's sex on the entries. What do you think would be the best way of handling this?

Re: Question

[briar_pipe]

Hi, sorry! Comments in my inbox were buried as we opened recruitment, and I'm just catching up.

If the two characters are different (including different universe versions of the same character), we could canonize them separately as "Female Morgan (Schrodinger's Heroes)" and "Male Morgan (Schrodinger's Heroes)". If they're the same person in a different body, we'd just stick with one tag. Does that make sense?

Re: Question

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>Hi, sorry! Comments in my inbox were buried as we opened recruitment, and I'm just catching up.<<

That's okay.

>>If the two characters are different (including different universe versions of the same character), we could canonize them separately as "Female Morgan (Schrodinger's Heroes)" and "Male Morgan (Schrodinger's Heroes)"<<

They are different universe versions of the same person. (Bodyswitching also happens, but they get turned into cats more often than swapping sexes.) Female!Morgan is the original; in the apocryphal backstory for the series, the actress who played her was killed in a car crash. But there had been a genderswitch episode with a male actor playing Morgan. So the story went, Alex searched the manifold for a Morgan willing to join them, and male!Morgan took the offer.

If you look in "Safe Keeping" there's a place where male!Morgan mentions that shift. "Settling" has female!Morgan.

Some things I've written about Morgan, the sex doesn't actually show, so I'd leave the original tag for those. But if you make the sex-differentiated tags, let me know and I'll update the entries that do specify.

Thanks again for your help!

Re: Question

[briar_pipe]

Okay, sounds like they could be separate if you want them to. We don't canonize in advance unless we foresee problems - we let users choose whether to add new character tags or not. So if you decide to separate these, go ahead. If it's not important to you, then it's fine to leave them as-is.

Re: Question

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Okay, sounds like they could be separate if you want them to. <<

I have updated the relevant entries accordingly.

>> So if you decide to separate these, go ahead. If it's not important to you, then it's fine to leave them as-is. <<

Depends on the story whether it's deeply important or not. Two of them have male!Morgan specifically talking about crossing over, so that's essential.

[jjhunter]

Would you consider encouraging people to create 'Schrodinger's Heroes' works for pod_together? Signups close at the end of today, and it just seems like such a neat potential opportunity to increase this 'verse's visibility. :o)

(My selfish motivation here is 'ooooooooo....', a fandom that *already* has a lot of people writing poetry for it, potential inspiration for one or more poetry projects for Pod Together 2013. Don't suppose you'd consider doing one yourself? I know a large part of what I'm getting out of doing the challenge is the chance to work closely with a really, really good audio performer and learn from her, learn more via her about my poetry and my work style. It's already proving a lot of fun.)

Okay...

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Would you consider encouraging people to create 'Schrodinger's Heroes' works for pod_together? <<

That's a great idea. I have posted about it in poetree. If you want to put it in pod_together that's fine too, but I'm not in that community.

>> My selfish motivation here is 'ooooooooo....', a fandom that *already* has a lot of people writing poetry for it, potential inspiration for one or more poetry projects for Pod Together 2013. <<

Yes, I'm intrigued by that too; I'd love to get more folks writing for SH.

>> Don't suppose you'd consider doing one yourself? <<

Alas, no. I love the idea of a pod project, as it's an area I don't do myself and would like to expand into for new audience. But I just don't have the time. Summer is my busy season for writing; I'm already overcommitted. That's why I'm skipping the emotional intimacy topic too. Very disappointing.

Maybe we could do something with Schrodinger's Heroes in poetree at some time when I'm not so swamped?

Re: Okay...

[jjhunter]

Re: that last, you're welcome to pick an open slot week on the community calendar any time and sign up to reserve that particular week. Manda and I are happy to help brainstorm/organize if you'd like some assistance structuring it.