Views on AU(s)

[mesotablar]

Challenge #3: Talk about your favorite AU/fusion tropes

I love a good Canon Divergent Alternate Universe. Tweak some minor details in canon and you get a whole new story growing. It always makes me think about Multiverse Theory, and the infinity of possible outcomes from differing actions and timings. I think staying close to canon at the start also allows you more freedom in the representation of the characters

because

I do like wildly different Alternate Universes, but I feel the characters have to be instantly recognisable. They have to be tight to their canon character representations, but if that is done then I'll read any AU you throw at me. Historical! Futuristic! Mundane! Soulmates! A/B/O! Magical! I'll even read Fourth-wall Breaking Anthropomorphic Objects AU! (does that even exist? well, it is AO3 so it probably does!) 

Comments

[fred_mouse]

Indeed. If you wish to experience this (warnings apply*) then I found a remix at https://archiveofourown.org/works/10592556 - The Epic Tale of Rodney & John, Two Girl Scout Cookies in Love [The Pix or it Didn't Happen Remix] by bitter_crimson (Krim)

* there are pictures. of cookies. representing porn. Also, a cookie gets eaten.

[mesotablar]

Not the best thing to read. at 11. at night.
My laughing woke others up.

You did warn me! It was very well done. I can't believe the author then kept the biscuits for 9 years!

[fred_mouse]

oops (unrepentant)

It is such a weird bit of fannish history!