[ SECRET POST #3754 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3754 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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03. [SPOILERS for Grimm]



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04. [SPOILERS for Stories Untold (video game)]



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05. [SPOILERS for Blue Exorcist]
[WARNING for abuse, rape, incest, and child molestation]



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06. [WARNING for discussion of rape]



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07. [WARNING for discussion of rape, bestiality, pedophilia]



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08. [WARNING for discussion of underage]

[A Series of Unfortunate Events]












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Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like AUs must be a really strong point in my main fandom or something, because I love them and have read so many really awesome ones.

I do actually have a theory about this though: My main fandom is Sherlock, and I think it's one of the best canons for adapting into AUs because the things that define the characters and the story the most are things you can usually carry over into the AU.

(E.g. Sherlock is brilliant, highly observant, cold, arrogant, and snide. John is unassuming but surprisingly bamfy, with a schismatic warrior/healer personality. They team up and have adventures together. You can easily carry over all of that into almost any AU you choose to write, so the most vital aspects of the characters rarely feel like they're missing. A lot of AUs even carry the crime-solving over and just have Sherlock doing it as a side gig in addition to whatever other occupation he's been given.)

Whereas AUs never worked that well for me in, say, TXF fandom, because Mulder and Scully just didn't really feel like Mulder and Scully without The Work, and the FBI, and supernatural shit, and shadowy conspiracies, and paranoia, and Mulder's very specific childhood trauma. Their personalities were heavily defined by, and interwoven with, a context that couldn't be carried over into most AU scenarios.

I'm not in SPN fandom, but I imagine similar could be said for that fandom. I mean, how can Sam, Dean, and Cas be anything like themselves without being Hunters? Without demons and religious mythos and one of them being an angel?

I'm not in the MCU/Avengers fandom, but it's hard to imagine how The Avengers could be themselves if you make them people who've never had superpowers, living in a world where superpowers don't exist.

Would I have any desire to read Harry Potter AUs in which magic didn't exist? And in which Harry isn't a famous, accidentally heroic, fated figure? Probably not.

And now I'm picturing a LOTR Mean Girls AU, with the elves/hobbits/dwarves/men/etc as different high school cliques. It's cracking me up, but only because of how deeply awful it would be.


Bottom line, I love AUs and I think AUs work splendidly in some fandoms; it's just that those fandoms are probably the minority.

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder if you read any of my Sherlock AUs.... I tend to go for magical/supernatural.