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I love a mafia AU. But I think that is because for some weird reason, most of the ones I've read involve a lot of praise kink as well.

Yaaaas I love mafia AU. One of my fandoms actually IS mafia, and I can't read many AUs for it, cause I'm like, he's the DON he would not take that shit!

Oh? What fandom?

AYRT

KinnPorsche. I've seen teacher AUs and office worker AUs, American highschooler AUs, Pacific Rim fusions, etc. Dude shot someone in the head to make a point in the first ten minutes of the first episode. I canNOT see him as a literature professor. XD

I've never watched that but someone I follow on Tumblr reblogs it a ton.

See, this is my problem with so many AU settings. The characters' sense of self and purpose seems utterly denatured by taking them out of the only world where they really make sense. The writer can slap their canon names on people who look like them, more or less, but it just almost never works for me.

It definitely depends both on the skill of the writer, and on what settings you're going between-- in my current fandom, there are a LOT of shitty modern AUs because it takes work to keep characterization intact when you're changing so much of how characters grew up. When you shift everything by a couple of tech booms, when there are different cultural touchstones, when the general social mores are different... either the characters feel out of place, or (more often) they feel nothing like themselves.

BUT, there are also people who put a lot of thought into it!

Personally, there are a lot of AUs I won't read unless they're recced by someone because I don't want to sort through the million modern/school AUs looking for the handful of actually good ones when the premise doesn't appeal to me anyway, but there are other AUs I'll always check out (generally supernatural ones)

Yeah, I'll definitely give you that writer skill matters a lot in this area and that it's hard to pull off "characters live in the present world and this is in any way as fun to think about as the setting they were taken from." And it's bizarre to me how many people in fandom will admit that they had an awful, traumatic time in school, yet think "school AU" is an optimistic change of scenery.

I thought possibly part of the problem was that people had been shamed and intimidated out of writing things that they don't have experience with, but school AU as I've often seen it written is in some mirror universe.

Mm, yeah, that's a good point-- especially I think young writers who are still finding their confidence and their voice have an easier time with a familiar setting. When they can work within a setting they know, then they can focus instead on dialogue, descriptions, the craft. So even though I don't enjoy reading high school AUs for my shows-with-adult-characters, I get why there are a lot of them as a sort of rite of passage.

(and, for fandoms that *have* school-age characters, something that's specifically a high school *AU* lets them write their school experience where it differs by region/era)

Like I said ... I'm pretty sure if more people were writing the high school they knew, suicidal ideation, emotional/physical/sexual abuse, sketchy adults in positions of power, and social mobbing would be way more common to the genre than happy-go-lucky fluff.

I'm tired of people only writing the high school that scriptwriters are allowed to put on television, over and over.

Your experience of school as constant misery isn't universal. Most people enjoyed some parts of it, even if other parts of it sucked. It's just as easy to not read high school AUs as is it to read them and then complain that they're not addressing your trauma.

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