[ SECRET POST #2136 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2136 ⌋

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

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02.
[Psych]


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03.
[Karl Urban]


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04.
[pokemon: best wishes]


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05.
[Bleach]


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06.
[Elementary/X-Files]


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07.
[Fievel Goes West]


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08.
[Potap & Nastya Kamenskih]


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09.
[Smallville]


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10.
[Fairy Tail]


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11.
[The Lorax]


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12.
[Robot Chicken]


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13.
[Downton Abbey]


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14.
[Pauly Perette]


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15.
[TVXQ]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 032 secrets from Secret Submission Post #305.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Common Fanfic Plots You Absolutely Cannot Stand

[(Anonymous)]

The dislike of mundane AUs always kind of surprises me, to be honest. :| I've always thought a good author can keep characters in-character/find appropriate backstory parallels regardless of the situation. I've read many, many good AUs, and as a genre, I think it's more good than bad.

(My differing opinion comes with a side of confusion, I guess.)

Re: Common Fanfic Plots You Absolutely Cannot Stand

[intrigueing]

To try to alleviate your confusion: for me, the personalities being intact isn't enough. The stories and contexts and situations that frame those personalities are just as vitally important to the characters, for me. So if there's an alternate backstory/situation/etc that's very much framed by the narrative in such a way that it's a direct play on the canon backstory, that's good, but when the personalities and/or backstory is just kinda there and the way the AU relates to the canon has no real relevance to the story's purpose, I cannot summon up the capacity to give a single shit. If the point of the story is to tell some random original fiction-esque plot, instead of to figure out a clever way to reposition all the characters appropriately in a different setting, then I. Just. Do. Not. Care.

It's easier to make this comparison/contrast in some AU situations rather than others. Which is why I tend to like fairy tale AU's, historical AU's, fusion fics (which are another-fandom AU's), sci-fi AU's, etc, far more than modern-day/normal-person AU's, especially the godawfulness that is college AU's and barista AUs (high school AU's I can occasionally get behind. Occasionally).

Re: Common Fanfic Plots You Absolutely Cannot Stand

[(Anonymous)]

That makes more sense, thank you for the explanation. :) I guess the confusion came mostly from the fact that AUs are a genre more than a trope, and dismissing an entire genre always struck me as odd. Dismissing things like bakery AUs/coffee shop AUs seems significantly more appropriate to the discussion.

Now me and my Avengers steampunk AU don't have to go quietly slink away into a corner.

Re: Common Fanfic Plots You Absolutely Cannot Stand

[intrigueing]

Yeah. And mind you -- I am talking mainly by statistics. I'm sure it's possible to do an amazingly perfect and riveting barista AU, it's just that every single one I've ever glanced at was painfully boring and had nothing to do with the canon material, and I think the setting does have a lot to do with it.

OMFG that sounds totally awesome! I have a big weakness for all kinds of steampunk stuff in, like, everything ever.