[ SECRET POST #3161 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3161 ⌋

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Comments

[annethecatdetective]

I think you're going to miss out on a lot of good writing if you assume that anyone who writes a high school AU is going to be a bad writer-- for one thing, people have different reasons for writing them! Someone might write a high school AU to fill a request/swap, for instance, when it normally wouldn't be something they themselves are interested in. Someone might write a high school AU to explore something about the (for lack of a better word) genre and its associated tropes. Not necessarily a deconstruction, but a deeper look at it. Some people might actually be writing twists on the usual.

And exploring different aspects of high school life isn't necessarily bad. Are a lot of HS AUs kind of same-y? Sure. And I'm not always interested in them. But sometimes someone takes a question like 'How would X's life be different if they met Y at a young age?', or 'How would A live their life in a modern setting instead of in the past/future/some high fantasy world?', and there's nothing inherently uncreative about writing a story to try to answer those questions. You're not obligated to like these stories or to read them on the off chance that a writer is doing something different from the kinds of stories you don't find interesting-- if you don't care for them, I'm not here to tell you you should like them or even that you should like certain ones but not others. But I do think that a lot of good writers do dabble in these AUs for one reason or another, and they might have other stories that you would like, that aren't high school AUs/AUs at all.

(and full disclosure, I've written high school AU stuff on request. Although I made most of the characters teachers instead of students, because at the time I wasn't really interested in turning adult characters into teens in that fandom. In other fandoms, though, I would not be opposed to writing HS AU stuff if requested, because some people love reading them for different reasons, and I like to write things that people want)

(as a side note, I admit I would absolutely love a story that started out with everyone in a cafe or ordinary modern-day high school, only to suck them into something fantastical, I think it would be kind of funny to subvert the HS/Coffee shop AU with a totally expected beginning and then something similar to the regular world of the source material. So if anyone's seen something like that, let me know)

[(Anonymous)]

Not the OP, but if the high school fic was done as a request or exchange fic, it would be a little different.

But not everybody likes the same things, that's a fact. If an author has written even just one fic in a genre I don't like and go out of my way to avoid, it's natural to be a little cautious of the rest of their work as well.