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⌈ Secret Post #3503 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Advice Thread

[(Anonymous)]

I'm writing a fic for someone else in a blind exchange. They like AUs, especially modern or supernatural ones. The canon we've matched on is already a period supernatural canon. I'm not going to write a coffee shop or high school AU; I want the characters to keep their special powers and for the fic to be about the stuff in the original canon. I've looked through their history and they only really get excited by AUs. How do I write a modern supernatural AU that feels like an AU to the canon? I feel like it would just end up being the same thing but with cell phones or computers or something, which they wouldn't even use on a hunt.

Also, I want to keep this relatively short. I usually take 15k+ for a fic and I have time for about a 5k. So, any thoughts on writing short AUs? This fic also has to be shippy so I have to give time for romance, which also increases the length of a fic.

Re: Advice Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm. See, this is something where it really depends a lot on the specifics of the canon involved. Because the most interesting thing is going to be translating the period presuppositions to a different period.

And also - I mean, in my experience, when we say "period" we often mean "genre", right? So for instance I think when you have a supernatural Western, or something like that, that's not really going to be an 1870s period piece. It's mostly going to be referencing the Western as a genre, not the actual historical moment. And so if you're doing a modern updating on that, it's really more of a genre AU - not just changing the period, but changing the genre logic from Western to something like, you know, American college story, or whatever. Because in addition to the different settings and societies, you also have a basically different set of expectations with regards to genres across those two cases.

Am I making sense here or just rambling?

Re: Advice Thread

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to say but I don't think it applies in my particular case. It's not a Western. I mean period in that the canon is set in the past. The actual canon is a bit campy and actually feels modern in tone, which is why it doesn't feel like much of an AU to move the characters a few centuries into the future. They'd basically be exactly the same, doing exactly what they do in canon. I don't know what to do with them to make a modern supernatural AU interesting or different.

Re: Advice Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, yeah, that's more difficult then.

I guess the point that I was trying to make is that I think, a lot of the time, things that we call "period pieces" are less interested in inhabiting the time period they're set in, and more interested in playing with and recreating specific genres. But if it's a canon that's written in a more modern way, obviously that's going to be difficult.

Re: Advice Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Put them in the high school or coffee shop AU but have them keep their powers, just now with new limitations/problems/technology.

Re: Advice Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe make it an FBI AU? A special supernatural section that deals with supernatural problems.

Some sort of convention? Either supernatural (in the vein of something like a home show or gun show or something like that) or something Comic-conish of the characters might be into.

Rock star AU?

Superhero AU?