[ SECRET POST #2885 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2885 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Avengers]


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[Terminator: Genisys]


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[Red Dwarf]


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[Gracepoint/Broadchurch]


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[Doctor Who]


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[All The President's Men]


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[The Great Mouse Detective]


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[Supernatural]


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[Transformers: Prime]












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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I actually really do not understand the point of service industry AUs. At all. High school AUs and Hollywood AUs I get, even if I don't like them. Sci-fi AUs I get, and I like some of them. Fairy tale AUs I get, and love. But service industry AUs??? Why???? What the hell is the point???? Seriously, can someone explain this to me?

[kallanda_lee]

Yeah, same. I man, I read some coffee shop ones that were cutely written but still...:why. I read my fiction for escapism, not realism.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm considering doing an AU femslash fic set in a pastry shop during the French Revolution. There will also be identical triplets.

Would that do?

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

That's, like, totally different, because it's in the French Revolution.

(Also now I'm interested. What canon?)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm still trying to decide the best fit. I was looking at bingo prompts and when I saw the justaposition of "The Fool" "au: royalty/aristocracy/feudal" "clones" "Bakery" and "Sudden Danger" for some reason it suggested Revolutionary pastry hijinks to me (with triplets or even quadruplets instead of true clones).

[tasogare_n_hime]

They just want to write something light-hearted?
They're going with what they are familiar with?
Everyone else is doing it?
Really absurd and hilarious things can happen when you work in those kind of places, and they want to write about that? Like when I worked in the bar my parents owned, and the volunteer fire department was in there for lunch except for one guy when a call came in about a vehicle on fire. They decided the one guy who wasn't there could handle it, but it turned out the vehicle on fire was his truck. He was the one who called the FD in the first place.

I've never actually read a service industry AU so I don't what tends to happen in them.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, but unless the canon was super grimdark, what's the problem with a fic of the characters doing something light hearted and familiar in canon setting?

(Though actually, a service industry AU for a really grimdark canon does sound kind of interesting...for the same reason that it's fucking boring for most canons that aren't all grimdark.)

[ketita]

Yeah, but often when you AU a grimdark canon into something fluffy you lose a lot of characterization. The tension is gone, so you have these characters who previously Got Shit Done whinging about silly things and failing to function in life.
tbh, I have yet to encounter a service industry AU that isn't boring. Or OOC.

[tasogare_n_hime]

Because as boring as you find it, they think it's fun.
There are probably the "because everyone else is doing it" and "It's a super popular trend I'll get a lot of reviews/kudos" people. For a lot of people who write it they probably just really enjoy that kind of fic.

[(Anonymous)]

Because it's an AU idea that, generally speaking, requires very little research and is something the post-high school crowd is familiar with. It's easy to write and generally fluffy to read.

[(Anonymous)]

I wondered this as well. I don't get the appeal.

It's relatable.

[(Anonymous)]

It doesn't take a lot of world-building, you can be vague with the details if you don't have a lot of experience with it, it can be much easier to deal with than the canon (especially for supernatural, sci-fi, or fantasy), it's an easy way for the characters to interact, and a lot of people like coffee and/or baked goods.

Re: It's relatable.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

That always confused the fuck out of me. Why bother writing a fic set in that kind of canon if you don't want to write in that canon? Why not write original stories, or fic for a more relateable canon? IDGI.

Re: It's relatable.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Maybe you like those particular characters. I've always wondered why people have such a problem with AUs - setting is just another thing to play with, another what-if to explore. It's not like they don't sometimes do it in canon (Moonlighting (Taming of the Shrew), Friends (everyone makes different choices), Castle (Noir, and one where he and Beckett never met), NewsRadio (Titanic), Stargate et al (too many to name), etc.).

[lentils]

My girlfriend and I are writing a mall AU for MCU right now, mostly just because we both work in retail and it's kind of therapeutic. Also it's an excuse to have characters who wouldn't normally interact do so, which is fun. (And giving characters like Bucky and Bruce better/more low-key lives is nice.)