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⌈ Secret Post #3132 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Personally, I can't stand high school AUs because they remind me of the fact that I'm very much not in high school anymore, and haven't been for a long time.

I also dislike how obviously American the vast majority seem to be, regardless of where the source material is set. I mean, would it kill you to do a bit of research on what high school is like in other countries?

[ketita]

It's true.
I think it's also half the reason I can't get into HSAUs at all, even if I could get over the teenager bit. My HS years didn't look like they do in America, and I have no interest in writing about American highschoolers - and why should I, anyway?
But AUing them into a non-American HS seems like it would be weird and not accepted by fandom (though I do sometimes see stuff in Japanese high schools...)

It's like all these HSAUs occur in a bland, Americanish kind of alternate universe.

[(Anonymous)]

Personally I would love to see more high school or university AUs set outside America. I dunno if it's just something in media but there seems to be so much mean-spiritedness in American high schools/colleges which I cannot relate to at all and find kind of off-putting. I imagine bullying exists everywhere but it's not nearly as...institutionalised or accepted as normal where I grew up (NZ) as it seems to be in America.

[ketita]

It's true. I also don't remember my school being nearly so horrible in that respect, either.
I feel like people would find it too weird, though, reading about familiar characters in such a... specific setting. Everybody seems to accept America as the default, and as a kind of 'neutral' setting.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree, and it's ridiculous because America is so far from neutral, but I think the best way to change that is to start doing it.

I mean, a modern SnK fic set in Israel would be no more AU than one set in America, right? And other fans from that country would love it. I know I got excited when I found a fic set (partially) in NZ. It was reasonably popular too so the setting can't have scared off too many people.

[ketita]

I do kind of do it on the low-down, actually. I try to be coy about it, but I put in little cultural details relevant to me, rather than making an effort to localize things in America. On the other hand, I don't write many AUs, so there's that...

I did once write a canonverse fic where Levi was Jewish. I was surprised that it was pretty well received!