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[lachesis]

[Nimbus]

Fans need to realize that when we crossover our series, it's our way of paying respect to each other's work - incorporating parts of their work in our series and parts of our work in theirs. We really do them out of friendship; they're our stories and we'll do whatever we feel will work and be fun to create together. It's cool if people dislike our decisions and discuss them here, that should always be done for critiques sake, but I don't think that the arguing should ever need to get ugly. There's no reason for that kind of hatred over differing opinions online. We're all fans in this verse and we should respect each other as such. I, for one, have loved what we've accomplished over the years and regret no collab experience. It was all very fun.

[Clairabel]

[Cyan507]

[Lithp]

I don't really know what else to tell you guys. I don't know what "critique" I could make without "going too far," & I don't know if it even makes a difference either way. What I do know is that I simply don't share your sentiment that crossovers are "fun." I try to tolerate them up until I feel they require too much time & attention. That's literally the best that I can do.

[HermannFegelien]

So i'm guessing nobody's going to be thrilled about the crossover with the Hitler Rants universe...

[Lumine]

If you don't like it, then don't watch it. It's not going to change.

Crossovers are fun and make no sense. They are also logical and make sense. They are both of these, just like the Slenderman.

[Lithp]

[GMan10598]

A lot of valid points have already been made here, but I'd like to bring up another potential negative side-effect of the crossovers: Story Development Tie-Ups

I understand that for the cast and crew of TT, EMH, DH, and MLA (along with other series), have their own lives and schedules. Some of them have gone away to school in different states, and/or have jobs of their own. Continued crossovers will make it difficult to plot what comes next, because if you're writing up the script for the next log or entry and you're planning on bringing in an outside character, you'll most likely need to take other series' plots into consideration, and vice-versa. While EMH and DH are based in New Jersey, Adam Rosner (TT's Noah Maxwell), take up residence in Florida ...and TT crosses over with both of the former. What really started to worry me was when EMH crossed over with MLA. Now you've got DH connected to TT, which is connected to EMH, which is now connected with MLA. You have TT and EMH in the "middle," as they work with two other major series apiece.

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[Lithp]

I'm pretty sure that's why EMH is comatose at the moment, actually. I know it's been slow for a while now, but firstly it's been crossing over for a while now, & secondly, this is the first time that I've really noticed, so without checking, I'd wager that this is one of the longer hiatuses.

[TheOperator]

4-month gaps are painfully common for EMH now, and it sucks if these convoluted, uninteresting crossovers are the cause for that.

[Cyan507]

The way I see it, if the story has room to allow a crossover and the circumstance the protagonist is in doesn't dictate such an event then yes, go for it. But doing crossovers just because you can is not a reason to do it. It's bad storytelling. If your series is so mundane that you need to rely on the quality of another series to bring yours up then the problem is glaring. But few series do this. Although there are a few that seem to think the more crossovers you do the better your series is which just isn't true. EMH is my favourite series and it has dozens of crossovers. I love crossovers but using other people's work to plug your own and promote is a little......eh.

[GMan10598]

I found Adam Rosner's Instagram the other day, and he was posting pictures of himself, Chris from DH, and Lee from WhisperedFaith. If they're meeting up IRL, wouldn't this seem to indicate the possibilities of mutual crossovers? (Before you mention it, there was a minor crossover between WF and TT in the "Bridge to Nowhere" video, but I'm talking about the possibility of full-entry length crossover videos). I was always under the impression that EMH and WF might do a direct crossover because they both have the Rake as an antagonist.

I know Adam is in grad school now, but it's still pretty frustrating to see Twitter (and even Vine), teasing over the past few months without any update follow-up.

[Cyan507]

[GMan10598]