[ SECRET POST #6099 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6099 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

Oh, that's a huge pet peeve of mine as well! AUs are endlessly fascinating to me for precisely that reason; if you're not gonna make the change ricochet in both natural and unexpected ways, why make the change at all?

[(Anonymous)]

Because tweeny fangirls wanna self insert themselves into Harry Potter books, hence all the Holly/Harriet/Cristal/Jaylene/Mysterious Goth Girl's Name Potter fanfics.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't really think "character insert" when I think "canon au".

[(Anonymous)]

No one's hurting you by doing that, go outside.

[(Anonymous)]

OMG yes. The number of MDZS fic I've run across where it's a modern AU but they basically redo the entire canon drives me up the wall.

[(Anonymous)]

SAME.

I don't like ones that swerve wildly away from canon either - but what I want to see is how the change changes canon, not to just re-read canon but by a worse author.

I think in some cases, especially the genderswap, trans/ND 'headcanon', or modern-day ones like that, it's just people doing a y/n with the MC - they experience media by projecting on a character but also project better on a character similar to them, so a re-read of exactly canon but with a slightly different MC *is* all they want. But it is not what I want.

[(Anonymous)]

I completely agree.

[tabaqui]

Yes! I like AU's because they introduce new things and new outcomes, not because they put a thin veneer of 'other' on the same old story.

[meadowphoenix]

it sorta genuinely confuses me on what they were exploring lol. different dialogue i guess?

[(Anonymous)]

I've written several and working out what changes is the fun part! I have no idea why you would just re-write canon.

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes the point of reading fanfic is reading something a million times in slight variations or in different writing styles/mediums -- hence coffee shop AUs, and tropes, and canon rewrites. Same thing with canon AUs that are like this. You just want to read an element being added/changed or an idea of an element being added/changed, but enjoy reading it interacting with the familiarity of canon. The familiarity but slight deviations in how canon is written in every fic is fun, refreshing, and hits a soft spot in the reader's heart!

[(Anonymous)]

I read AUs because I want to see my faves get together in different ways in different settings. And so giving nods to canon is cute background dressing for me, whereas it sounds like a core frustration for you.

Basically, this is probably one of the only times when you really can blame shippers for the lack of good fic. We aren't interested in the plot!

[(Anonymous)]

I actually like it when they make their way back to canon. A lot of the AUs I read are pretty angsty and it's sweet and comforting to me when the characters make friends and discover hobbies that give them joy in canon, having gone a very different route.