[ SECRET POST #6031 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6031 ⌋

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Comments

Re: What are your favorite AUs? What AUs would you like to see?

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: What are your favorite AUs? What AUs would you like to see?

[(Anonymous)]

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)

Re: What are your favorite AUs? What AUs would you like to see?

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: What are your favorite AUs? What AUs would you like to see?

[(Anonymous)]

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.