[ SECRET POST #2987 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2987 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen a lot of complaints about AUs that are basically just original fic with familiar character/setting names recently, here and elsewhere online.

Is it some sort of trend in some fandoms, or has the definition of AU changed so that it doesn't really require any contextual link to the original canon anymore?

Not really.

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes writers just use characters because they like the way the characters look or because they like the popularity of the fandom, so any resemblance to actual characterization in their AUs is a coincidence. But that's been going on as long as there has been fic (and is not confined to AUs, actually).

But sometimes the readers just don't really like AUs (or just can't fathom a character in certain AU jobs/settings/roles/etc.) and so make that same complaint.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

AU has multiple meanings and attempts to institute different names for the various things that get labeled "AU" fail to take hold.

You have Canon Divergence AUs (one event goes different and the results play out), or Canon AUs that change one of the basic facts of the setting and play on how that changes the story, or you have the total transplant AUs like High School AUs, College AUs, Coffee Shop AUs, general Modern AUs, where the characters are totally removed from the canon setting and put in some form of stereotypical Modern Earth setting.

The "transplant AU" tends to result in the loss of a lot of context and background that makes the character who they are, and if a writer also fails to capture a character's personality, well you end up with unconvincing characters with familiar names pasted on them.