[ SECRET POST #3651 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3651 ⌋

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[fscom]

05. http://oi66.tinypic.com/dgs45d.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

I feel you, OP. My time in high school wasn't horrible, but I'm glad it's over and it wasn't an experience I want to relive in fanfiction, even if it's idealized or whatever.

[nonnymouscawitz]

I am the opposite. High school sucked for me too, so I enjoy reading A) characters I love doing more with their teenage years than I did with mine and B) characters I love going through the same kind of bullshit I got stuck with. And I have a thing for 'character gets bullied and finally snaps back' because I was not a brave teenager.

[(Anonymous)]

This is how I feel about high school AUs too.

I mean, one totally crap thing about high school was that in addition to being kind of miserable, it was also utterly boring. Which is partly because that's just reality most of the time, but also partly because I was a very withdrawn sort of person in HS (and still am, I suppose), so I never really did many of the things that are often depicted as quintessential "coming of age" things. So on the one hand, I really love reading about the characters I love dealing with the kinds of anxieties and insecurities I find so relatable. But I also love reading about them doing all those often dramatic, often cliched quintessentially teenage things I never really did.

Plus, I love the extra squeeze of protective affection I feel for the characters I love when they're young and more vulnerable and not quite fully formed yet, but still fundamentally their magnificent, flawed, quirky, wonderful selves.

Also, yaasss @ your icon!

[nonnymouscawitz]

Yes to all of this. I never went to parties or drank underage or caused major trouble with my parents or joined sports (except a brief stint in powder puff football). My mother, who was a wild child, often laments that I was TOO well behaved and she wishes I'd gotten into just a little trouble so I could have had "the full teenage experience." And while I have no regrets about being a good kid and a good student, I do wish I'd gotten out more and it's nice to read about for me. Heck my favorite non fic genre is YA for similar reasons.

I love this icon. I used to pop up on all the taylor swift discussions going "well, actually, let me explain you a thing" so I figured I needed an icon to go with it.

[(Anonymous)]

I never got into HS fic because none of it was even remotely realistic or similar to my HS experience so it always just seemed to weird to me.

Like cheerleading, and sports team, and cliques, and huge campuses where everyone drives.

[skeletal_history]

Same. Well, that and I have no interest in taking adult characters from an interesting setting and turning them into teenagers doing mundane teenager things in a really boring setting.

Tangential: Aren't most authors of high school AUs in high school, themselves? I've always figured those fics were borne of a student's daydreams about their favorite characters being with them as they went about their day at school.

[(Anonymous)]

I have no interest in taking adult characters from an interesting setting and turning them into teenagers doing mundane teenager things in a really boring setting.

Exactly! This is the primary reason I have zero interest in high school AUs. I had a pretty decent time in high school (although it's not something I'd want to do over - I was nowhere near my peak in life, not sure I'm there yet!) but looking back on it, it's all just boring to me. The idea of high school is boring to me. The lives of teenagers are boring to me. If you write about some high school teens solving mysteries or something, that's cool (although why not do that with characters who are already teenagers or write original fiction), but if the premise of the fic is just "they're in high school" then forget it.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought that was Carol Danvers tormenting Loki for a puzzled moment.

[diet_poison]

I loved high school but I hated college so I kinda feel you. Ironically, if I'm going to read fic about college, I'd rather it be where the character is having a bad experience rather than idealized because that gives me a bit of a pang (though I'd still read it if it were good).

I'm more interested in coffeshop type AUs anyway though because then you don't have to age down characters who aren't actually teens or very young adults in canon.

[were_lemur]

I'm pretty much the same with regard to High School AUs; that was a truly sucktackuar time in my life, and I have no desire to relive it.

I've also been a barista, and I have no desire to read Coffee Shop aus.

Oddly enough, I'm perfectly fine with reading stories set during times when the characters were canonically in school; Academy Era or Standord Era fics, stuff like that. And I could actually see fic where the canonical characters had to go undercover in a food service or retail establishment and wackiness ensues as they try to cope with the aggravations long enough to achieve the plot objective. ("No, Doctor, you cannot sonic the espresso machine!")

I think it's appealing because many characters seem to have the emotional maturity of teenagers.

[(Anonymous)]

Like, canonically. Also, it sometimes seems more realistic if two characters in a romance are all about each other if they're teenagers (no, not every teenager is like that and yes, some adults are absolutely like that, it just seems more likely). To me, anyway. Of course, my high school days were not bad, but there is very little commonality between the high school depicted in fiction and my high school reality.