[ SECRET POST #4255 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #4255 ⌋

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[fscom]

06. https://i.imgur.com/W2893Tz.jpg

[case]

I get you but at the same time I wouldn't have expected any less (or should that be more?).

Most people don't know enough about Roman Britain to write the setting confidently, and can't be expected to research it enough to write it convincingly which might take hours just to write a one-off fanfic or something. The most dedicated will, and props to those writers, but I wouldn't expect the majority of casual movie fans to do so.

I'm more curious why there aren't more easy-peasy similar-enough generic medieval fantasy AU settings of this! Grey Warden Warrior Marcus Cousland and Totally-a-Rogue Secretly-A-Mage Elf Esca the Reluctant Companion would be fun.

[(Anonymous)]

I think there's an Uncanny Valley effect with AUs sometimes, where you have a setting that's close enough to the original source material that it feels weird to write it up as a proper AU, or not worth the effort.

[case]

That's true. Adding magic/fantasy to a "realistic"-historic-fictional Roman setting would make it pretty different though, at least to me.

[greghousesgf]

if it were done right I think it might be kind of interesting to read a slice of life Roman novel where the gods were real.

[case]

The Republic era would have some interesting polytheist stuff! Empire era would get pretty complicated fast though, and then Constantine happens and that's a minefield...

[(Anonymous)]

Hi, case! Can I say how awesome it is that you're commenting on secrets? :)

[case]

I don't have too many fandoms I'd read fic for or anything, but the Eagle is one of them!

(What that says about my taste, I don't know)

[tweedisgood]

It's good. How about "Rome"?

[(Anonymous)]

It could be interesting but you'd have to do a lot of research - or at least, I would only be interested personally if there was a lot of research. I think it'd be pretty easy to fall into a Percy Jacksonesque approach to mythology, and that's been done a lot at this point. But something that really tried to look at actual ancient Roman religion in practice as opposed to mythology would be really cool.

[tabaqui]

Huh, really? I've read nothing but in-canon fic in that fandom. I don't recall seeing a single modern AU.

[(Anonymous)]

I was a fan of the book, so I joined a couple of fan comms on LJ when the movie came out, but all they ever posted were, like, coffee shop AUs and college AUs and for some ridiculous reason figure skating AUs

[tabaqui]

How bizarre.
Check out the fandom on AO3. That's where i've read some very good in-canon fic.

[(Anonymous)]

I think you may have given up on the fandom a little too early. I got into it a year or so after you, and by that point the LJ communities were about half canon era fic and half modern AUs. And in the years since, the canon era fic has easily become the majority. (A bunch of those are still AUs, but they're canon divergence AUs or canon era werewolf AUs or etc.)

Sorting by kudos on AO3 gets you really good fic in The Eagle, imo. If you're still interested in the fandom, you might want to check it out.

[(Anonymous)]

I read canon-era fic for it and am also bored by modern AUs, but I wouldn't dare write fic for it. I was a Classics major in college, but even so there are so many things about daily life that I'm not sure of. Reading Vergil and Ovid doesn't prepare you for writing something realistic about Roman Britain set a few centuries later. ;) I can understand how some people might be intimidated by the necessary research to write canon-era fics.

[(Anonymous)]

Huh. Just from my experience in that fandom, I would say it has more canon era fics than most fandoms I've been in.

I don't mind the modern AUs though. If they still have an interesting relationship, I'll read whatever. There are a couple of modern AUs that I love in that fandom because the authors used elements of their canon (movie more so than book) relationship.