[ SECRET POST #2732 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2732 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

08. http://i.imgur.com/OocclpA.jpg

[cushlamochree]

The background is confusing me. Historical AUs? Or... history fandom? Are people writing a ton of stories where Oliver Cromwell and Genghis Khan are working in a coffee shop or something?

[peablossom]

Genghis probably has to work three jobs, to pay for all his kids.

[(Anonymous)]

Hell no. He was a way better organiser than that. Genghis would aim for the single job that paid for all of them in one fell swoop and get it by hook or by crook. Or, failing that, arrange to have several other people giving him a cut from their jobs.

Seriously, if Genghis Khan is not working at a coffee shop purely as a cover for his take over of the local underworld, I shall be very disappointed.

[iceyred]

I kinda want a Genghis Khan coffee shop fic now.

[(Anonymous)]

Me too, possibly with Oliver Cromwell in a rival coffee shop. I have never read coffee shop AUs but I would read that in a heartbeat.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's meant to symbolize different time periods (historical AUs) or the idea of alternate timelines ("FWOAN" AUs).

[cushlamochree]

That makes sense. Although I haven't seen that many historical AUs - they seem to be much less common than modern AUs and coffeeshop AUs and what have you. Then again, I don't usually go seeking them out.

[evewithanapple]

In most fandoms for period dramas (excluding things like Austen, Gaskell, etc) the modern AUs tend to outweigh the canon-era fics. I get why- not everyone wants to go on a research bender to write a drabble- but it frustrates me too. I like these shows because they're historical!

[cushlamochree]

That would make sense! I think what threw me was the fact that it was a non-fiction history book or something? IDK.

Personally, I'm not someone who usually cares a lot about historical exactitude, as long as you have the basic chronology right. So I'd rather see something that's historical even if it's not entirely accurate. But that's just me I guess.

[(Anonymous)]

not everyone wants to go on a research bender

Do you think that's why they do it? It baffles me, because it seems to strip the fandom of its most important feature. But maybe they just find two of the actors hot.

[kallanda_lee]

That would bug me, too.

[evewithanapple]

Les Mis?

[(Anonymous)]

*crying about the X-Men fandom* For the first time in years I ship a popular pairing and I feel like at least half (probably more) the fanfics out there are crappy AUs in which the characters barely even resemble their canon counterparts. (And even the non-AU fics are often terribly written, but that's a different problem.)

I sometimes get the impression that popular pairings get more absurd AU fics than unpopular ships, percentage-wise.

[(Anonymous)]

It's only fair though. Imagine the opposite. Imagine being into an upopular pairing with 10 fics total out of which 80% are coffee-shop/band-AU's.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

That would be horrible. I'm usually into unpopular pairings with 10 fics total out of which 80% were written by me. ;)

Still, it's so frustrating when you finally ship something popular and still barely find any fic you'd want to read.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yes. If this secret isn't about X-Men movieverse fandom, it should be. The 60s and 70s aren't SO hard to research that you can't write fic set in that time, and for the love of all that is holy, most of the characters are absolutely DEFINED by their powers so what is this obsession with depowered AUs?

Which fandom?

[(Anonymous)]

X men? TELLLLLL USSSSSSSSSSS

[(Anonymous)]

Yes! When I was looking for "Hunger Games" fan fics the hardest, it was mostly stupid modern day AUs. THG are literally a fucking au, so why would you au an au? All I wanted was to find Peeta/Katniss fic set in the book world and it was like pulling teeth to find some good ones.

Depressing canons have more AUs

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know what fandom you're working with, OP, but this is a pretty consistent fact. A lot of people want happy endings, and a lot of canons make that impossible. Thus, AUs.

Re: Depressing canons have more AUs

[(Anonymous)]

And light-hearted, whimsical canons have crazy dark depressing fic/ AUS - I'm looking at you, Psych fandom.

Re: Depressing canons have more AUs

[(Anonymous)]

And when you have both, you get the completely batshit AUs! (Hi, Homestuck fandom!)

Re: Depressing canons have more AUs

[(Anonymous)]

I will never forget the feeling of utter bemusement I had when I first stumbled upon Psych fic and found that so much of it was so dark.

Re: Depressing canons have more AUs

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, this is true for me. Merlin is a good example - I nearly exclusively read AUs in Merlin fic anymore. I don't like non-magical AUs - but I pretty much stick to modern AUs with magic.

[(Anonymous)]

Elizabeth Bear's and Sarah Monette's Iskryne series?