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[Angry Birds (Movie)]

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[The Great British Bake Off (series 6)]

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[Jennifer Nettles, Ronnie Dunn]

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[Free!]

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[Hannibal]

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[Jennifer Lien, who played Kes in Star Trek: Voyager]

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[BBC Robin Hood]

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(Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie/The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley)

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By which I mean, take a trope you generally don't like (high school AU, soulmate, A/O/B, etc.) and consider how it could be written to be interesting to you.

Feel free to worldbuild and throw out ideas for authors.

Invert it. Make it exist for a reason. Add a twist to it.

High school AUs could easily just be written as characters when they were in high school, if those characters were likely to have interacted, so that it's more backstoryfic than outright high school AU. For example, on Parks and Rec Leslie probably went to the same school as several characters, given how small Pawnee is supposed to be - did she overlap with any of them? I would love to read that, and it wouldn't have to be an AU at all. Just a fanfic.

A/O/B is only interesting to me when exploring the politics of it. Or I would be interested in something like a submissive alpha and dominant omega.

Well, stop writing A/B/O as some kind of weird, fascist 'you're an omega, so you can't own things/can't think for yourself/can't leave the house without a chaperon' 'verse. What, A/B/O automatically means we all live in Saudia Arabia or something? Yeesh.

How about - some people are this, some are that, and nobody really cares and you don't have to be registered with the govt. to get a job or forced to marry someone you've never met? For *once* - how about the omega character doesn't become a mewling kitten 'in heat' but is aggressive and sexually demanding and controlling? Mix it up!

I'm trying to think of something that would make me like a HSAU and drawing a blank. Maybe if it had a really, really crazy twist?
The characterization and character relationships would have to parallel canon, for me, and yeah. Probably have to have some added point of interest or twist, for me to really care. And then I'd care more about the twist than the characters being in HS...

+1
In the few ones I've read the characters were excactly the same as in canon. They had twists and mysteries or an interesting worldbuilding.

HSAU is a hard one, the nearest I can think that makes it palatable is a crossover that dumps a character in a fandom with a standard American highschool, like say a Twilight crossover, something I have on occasion (mostly Hp/Twilight crosses), though I am not sure any Second World fantasy fandoms will ever work in such a cross (though I did read a DA/HP cross where Cullen ended up at Hogwarts).

Soulmates is something I tend to read anyway, but I hate the idea that some weird magic/"destiny" is pushing them is the only reason they fall in love. Actually give the relationship development and don't depend totally on the soulbond as a crutch. In fact? Totally divorce the soulbond from the falling in love, if possible!

A/B/O -- make it political, make it about omegas and their rights, give a bit of agency to all parties when they go into heat, whether that means they can actually resist it, or they have drugs/potions that stop it. Create cultural traditions centered around Alphas gaining favour with Omegas. Also? Don't make Betas total non-entities - background maybe, but not invisible.

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