[ SECRET POST #5030 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5030 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I completely agree! Not begrudging other people's happy wish-fulfillment fic (as I know if I say anything to imply fluffy cutesy content isn't "as good" it puts people on the defensive) but I am completely baffled by the takeover of AUs... I couldn't tell if this was just in my fandom, or if this shift had happened in ALL of fandom. FS suggests the latter. In years past I feel like I didn't mind AUs with an actual plot to them, and I know those still exist, but I've even become wary of THAT because of the oversaturation in the market. To be honest, I think there's a bit of a problem regardless of if it's a fluffy coffeeshop AU or a dark supernatural AU with NEEDING to write the characters meeting for the first time so that you can fill space talking about their appearance and how attracted they are to the other and whathaveyou. It's like, people laud crafting a whole new story from the ground up and when done well I can understand why, but I think fandom overlooks the storytelling chops it takes to actually utilize the history canon has given you and build a compelling story about their relationship and their real problems without needing to fill space with the "first meeting, describing how I wish the character looked, cute misunderstanding, falling in love" dance we've all seen a thousand times.

[(Anonymous)]

NEEDING to write the characters meeting for the first time so that you can fill space talking about their appearance and how attracted they are to the other and whathaveyou Bingo. You've solved it, I think. Think how easy it would be to preserve a lot of canon relationships even in the most cookie-cutter scenarios. A can work in a coffee shop but B can still be his friend that he's known for years who knows about his abusive dad and B can still think A is super fine, it's not like we only develop crushes on people we've just met. But then you're going off-formula and oh, now we need a different instigating incident to get them together. Writing hard.