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[How To Train Your Dragon]

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[Fall Out Boy's "The Phoenix"]

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[pokemon conquest]

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Coffee Shop AUs are in every fandom. Rarely are they that great.

How about a coffee-shop AU that is only a side-story to the main story of a cathedral under destruction?

Could count. But even if it doesn't I'm going to assume there's another out there that does.

I'm guessing this one you mention is actually good?

I'm actually writing about one. The main character is traveling to a city to cheak-up on his brother, who has emigrated there and is operating a coffee shop with his boyfriend. While there, the main character discovers a cathedral that is slated for destruction yet still has a working piano. He plays, one thing leads to another and the whole thing is now being converted into a concert hall. Of course, there are more than just ordinary immigrants in the city, and a political upheaval on the other side of the earth shall bring about trouble close to home...

Is it good?

Sounds like a mix of things with some Coffee Shop AU thrown in as a small part.

And I wouldn't know if it's good. I haven't read it. I'm a firm believer in the idea that it's not what you write, so much, but how you write it. I said that "rarely are they [CSAU] great." That means some are actually great. Most are just okay. Others are bad. Yet, they're all the same premise. It's the author who turns it into something good or bad by virtue of their own writing. Look at Jim Butcher. He wrote an entire series based on that idea. He bet someone that it wasn't about the idea but how that idea was written. He said he could turn not only one bad idea but two bad ideas into a good series. The other person who was betting him gave him two "bad" ideas. I think they were Pokemon and the lost roman legion. The Codex Alera series was born and let me tell you, it's very good. Very popular. So Jim Butcher won the bet.

Your story will be good if you write it that way. Good luck.

I wrote a long-winded coffee shop AU with a friend for a long time. I got bored eventually but it was fun back then as just a silly side project.

That sounds like fun. Did you finish it off or did you leave it a WIP?

It was never finished sadly, but we did a lot with it that we set out to do and it stretched over a couple years. Sometimes we wrote tons or we'd go months without adding to it. I think it died when we both wanted to do other, more serious writing projects. But it was great fun.

That sounds absolutely fantastic. It gives me warm fuzzies thinking about the fun you must have had.

Haha, it was great :) I feel like we started before 'coffee shop AUs' were really a thing (that I knew of) and now it seems like the new high school AU? Or are high school AUs still a thing? I can't keep up LOL

High School AUs are still a thing. I don't read them but I pass them by a lot. Coffee Shop AUs are like High School AUs for people who don't like high school, as far as I can tell.

I had a feeling that's what it was. I probably wouldn't write another coffee shop AU, and I'm way past high school to care about those AUs. :)

Ah, well, you have your memories.

Yup. :) It's just time to change the pace and write a totally dark crossover fic. Or something.

There is one in the Dishonored fandom and it's glorious. The first Coffee Shop AU that I really liked.

Oh, yes, I like that one too.

That sounds hilariously awesome.

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