[ SECRET POST #2346 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2346 ⌋

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08. http://i.imgur.com/08bopWC.jpg

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[(Anonymous)]

[Agron and Nasir from the television show Spartacus are kissingin the background of the secret.]

I just got in to this show as a kind of guilty pleasure, and I love Agron and Nasir and I'm so happy they're canon. So it drives me crazy that 99% of the fic for them is modern generic AU stuff with no characterization. The historical setting and their backstories is what makes them interesting to me.

s!b squee-harshing, entitlement, etc.

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(Agron and Nasir from Spartacus kissing)

I just go into this show as a kind of guilty pleasure, and I love Agron and Nasir and I'm so happy they're canon. So it drives me crazy that 99% of the fic for them is generic modern AU stuff with not characterization. The historical setting and their backstories are what makes them interesting to me.

s!b squee-harshing, entitlement, etc.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not particularly familiar with this particular canon, but I think in general, historical settings tend to scare people away from writing canon-compliant fics. Because unless you're willing to do a shit ton of research, it's pretty difficult to write a good, believable long-fic. And even with short ones there's a fair bit of research that has to be done, and then you have to match up the speech patterns and such. So I can imagine it's very off-putting.

I can empathise with that, actually, considering my main fandom is Les Mis, and if I were to try and write for that it would almost definitely be a modern AU.

[(Anonymous)]

That sucks, I have been planning to watch this and the setting would be one of my fave things to.
Its interesting which fandoms have more AUs - Thinking about Harry Potter I can remember barely any because the world is so much a part of why people love it.

[(Anonymous)]

That's an interesting point. I remember there being almost none in Lord of the Rings either. People who wanted AUs would just write RPF about the movie actors instead.

DA

[(Anonymous)]

I used to think AU with anything Tolkien was just too weird. Elves in high school? Maybe as a joke.

But then The Hobbit movie happened and people wrote all kinds of modern day AUs and now I don't know what to think.

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

More thoughts!
As a scifi and fantasy fan I am used to reading to explore a world or an evolution of an idea, and I know other people are most definitely not into that. So maybe that's part of the difference. People who get into something from a character-focused perspective VS people with a speculative fiction background.

-Thread OP

[(Anonymous)]

Reminds me of the fandom for "Eagle of the Ninth" - also a lot, lot, lot of modern AU fic, even though their character dynamics are so interesting in the movie... It seems a waste.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

And while I won't say that modern AUs are inherently bad (I loved The Student Prince just as much as the next person), I do think that as stories the ones produced in The Eagle fandom tend to be much less interesting and to have worse characterizations than most canon-era fic.

Roman slash

[(Anonymous)]

If you like hot slash set in ancient Rome, try Dominus. It's a WIP and only a few chapters so far but the author updates pretty well.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/804488/chapters/1517062

Re: Roman slash

[(Anonymous)]

OP here - thanks!

pfff

[(Anonymous)]

let me sing to you the song of my people on AO3

actualsettingevenifAUfic!nagron:

A Different Arena- gaygreekgladiator
I Will Help Shoulder Weight- agggron
Neither timid nor tame- laufeyette
I've Got No Strings- agggron
Anyone Who Isn't Us- gaygreekgladiator
If I Had a Voice- agggron
and random stuff by emptypalm

Re: pfff

[(Anonymous)]

OP thanks you! :D

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Well I don't know the show, but a sympathise with your opinion of modern AUs. The only way I can read modern AUs is a recently discovered thing: reincarnation modern AUs. They're somewhat common in the Hobbit fandom and I feel they solve the issue of losing the rich backstory the characters have in canon.

Maybe someone in your fandom needs to do a reincarnation fic to preserve the character histories in a modern AU setting.