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[personal profile] fscom 2020-10-13 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Official advertise your fandom-related event thread.

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[personal profile] fscom 2020-10-13 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Official clickables thread.

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[personal profile] fscom 2020-10-13 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
General comments:

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[personal profile] fscom 2020-10-13 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Games thread!

(Anonymous) 2020-10-13 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Hear, hear. I don't get wanting to waste time dumping on stuff I don't like when there's so much fun I could be having with the ships I enjoy instead.

(Anonymous) 2020-10-13 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Never say never, OP. Fandom may just surprise you.

(Anonymous) 2020-10-13 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
My old school understanding of AU was that you changed one event or several events in a character's past and wrote an AU based around what would have happened then. That was how most fic seemed to roll with it anyway.

NOW it's all high school AUs and coffee shop AUs and shit where, exactly as you describe, they erase all history. They are not my cup of tea.

I very much miss the old school type of AU fic.

(Anonymous) 2020-10-13 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm simultaneously gutted I missed the whole thing and kinda sad for the people involved. That's a level of crazy where the people involved probably need some actual psychological help.

(Anonymous) 2020-10-13 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope she's not doxxed too. Doxxing is effed up.

(Anonymous) 2020-10-13 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I used to disdain these AUs, but canon in my fandom started to irritate me so much that this way, I can enjoy the personalities and beauty of my ship without being monumentally miffed at what the showrunner's doing.

(I considered myself very much a true-to-canon-events shipper.)

My show is going away soon, so I'm glad I can still enjoy the characters doing other things in AUs no matter what happens.

(Anonymous) 2020-10-13 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
If I wrote My Immortal (I did not, sadly) I'd never tell another soul. Even on my deathbed. I like the mystery too much.

(Anonymous) 2020-10-13 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Alternatively: AUs prove that a ship is so strong and meant to be that no matter what the circumstances (angsty or otherwise) and history, the couple will end up together. Also not all AUs get rid of history in exchange for meet-cutes. And the possibilities are endless, even if there are common tropes. You seem to have a very limited understanding or definition of what AUs are.

I mean, you also seem to think that everyone shares your opinion of what the appeal of a ship is and so what would "kill" it. That is so ludicrous, it's not worth commenting on further.

(Anonymous) 2020-10-13 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I got into polytheism and there are people who are Odinwives.

It's EVEN CRAZIER.

(Anonymous) 2020-10-13 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
My reasons for enjoying high school AUs are pretty similar. My school life wasn't really trash, but it was pretty boring because I had the strictest curfew out of all my friends and didn't get to do as much fun stuff as they did. High school AUs are kind of my way to live out an idealized version of high school.

(Anonymous) 2020-10-13 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
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(Anonymous) 2020-10-13 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
This is similar to how I feel about campus novels. I was incredibly depressed and lonely at college, and I love stories that romanticize that period and allow me to imagine a better experience.

(Anonymous) 2020-10-13 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
AUs prove that a ship is so strong and meant to be that no matter what the circumstances (angsty or otherwise) and history, the couple will end up together.

Yeah, this is how I tend to see a lot of those kinds of AUs, too. I do love stories that explore the characters' history as it stands in canon, and I agree with the secret that a lot of my favorite ships are the sort that tend to have a history of some kind, because it provides a great foundation to build on. But yeah, it can be very interesting sometimes to see what would've happened had they met in another way, or another lifetime, or whatever, too.

(Anonymous) 2020-10-13 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Timely secret

(Anonymous) 2020-10-13 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I was so disappointed in how Irene was characterized and handled in general! You're right that her being fridged was pointless and that she could have had a cameo that made way more sense for the character. I thought these were really fun films overall but Irene's treatment was one of the things that bothered me a lot about them.
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[personal profile] feotakahari 2020-10-13 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm . . . I don’t think the one I’ve encountered is actually an Odin WIFE. She’s just had Odin sex. Less commitment that way.

(Anonymous) 2020-10-13 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh? Did something related happen recently (other than JKR controversy in general)?

(Anonymous) 2020-10-13 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
It might be the same person. I hope so.

(Anonymous) 2020-10-13 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
There have always been both types for as long as I've been reading fic. There are always trends within bigger fandoms, but there have been both types of AUs for a long, loooooong time.

"Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence" is the AO3 tag for the type you're thinking of. There are plenty still being written.

(Anonymous) 2020-10-13 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I only ever see reference to Snapewives when someone posts something here and i think that says alot about the lack of impact it's had in fandom.

(Anonymous) 2020-10-13 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Sometimes the canon history between two characters can make their relationship unhealthy or weird in a way you're not comfortable with, and sometimes those things won't be revealed until after you started to ship it.

You might find out they're married to someone else, or one of them has done something unforgivable, or they grew up seeing the person you ship them with as a father figure or any number of other things.

AUs let you take the characters out of the situation and put them in a new one where you can still imagine them naked together without it being weird.

Also sometimes you stop watching things after the first or seconds season because the plot sucked, but you still like the characters. Just me? Lol.
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