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⌈ Secret Post #5030 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

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)]

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)]

I'm the opposite I guess. High School AUs that are about the "bad crowd" type of kids who party a lot and have no parental supervision are similar to my HS experience. I read them out of nostalgia.

[(Anonymous)]

Same here. I was in the closet throughout highschool because I didn't want to get my ass kicked on top of the bullying I was already going through - so I'm living through all my m/m and f/f highschool fics where the characters can be happy (I mean, there's still going to be conflict - but it's usually created with hurt/comfort and a happy ending all the same)

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Understandable. Read on, nonny.

I don't usually like high-school AUs but I did like this one (it's Star Wars [Kylux]), you might as well:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/14476539/chapters/33440853

[(Anonymous)]

I don't mind high school AUs because they tend to have a lot of moments of the cast just hanging out and being friends and sometimes I just want some nice low stakes cast hanging out and being friends fic, especially when it involves characters who don't interact with the main cast much in canon.

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I alway wonder how long most people tend to stay focused on their high school years? Because, to be honest, I'm 37 and I barely think of it, and don't remember 2/3 of my classmates if I don't have a class photo before me.

I didn't have a great time at high school either (I had to switch classes at one point it was so bad), but high school AUs have never held any appeal to me. I'm done with this shit, why should I go back? It's just a tiny piece of my life that took place 20 years ago...?

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like high school AUs always make everything like the high schools they see in teen movies, and having had a high school experience that was nothing like in the movies* I just don't identify with high school AU fic, regardless of why people write or read it and what they might be working through.

*There was no one clique of popular kids that ruled the school (or even multiple cliques that ruled the school). The cheerleaders I was acquainted with were nothing like the stereotypes. I would have been one of the looser outsider kids in a teen movie, but in real life I was never bullied and had lots of friends. It wasn't some kind of high school utopia by any means and there were plenty of assholes, but it wasn't anything like any high school movie I've ever seen. So, if a fic makes this character a jock and that character a nerd and then Breakfast Club stuff happens, I see no point in that.