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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-03-03 07:07 pm

[ SECRET POST #2617 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2617 ⌋

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Re: Not Cool AU scenarios

(Anonymous) 2014-03-04 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
ayrt

I mentioned the POW story because eventually the Holocaust/a forced march to a death camp did get involved in the story. So it does count, IMO. The reluctant guards were also guards at a death camp and that fact was extremely pivotal, so...

Just, sorry, trying to figure out what you're saying - by "genocide AU" do you mean Nazi/Jew and none of the other possible combinations? I mean, lots of other types of people killed there, gays being significant for the slash fics and all, whether they were Jewish or German or Nazis themselves or not. A slash ship in the middle of Nazi Germany would definitely be affected by the Holocaust considering what would happen to them if found out.

Re: Not Cool AU scenarios

(Anonymous) 2014-03-04 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
I would find gays in WWII Germany in a concentration camp equally exploitative tbh. What, a high-school bullying AU or getting-run-out-of-town AU isn't high stakes enough? Gotta have concentration camps, amirite?

As for genocide AU I'd say I'm talking about at least one of the characters AU'd to be a member of the race/people being exterminated AND the setting being an area where the extermination is taking place, though either one of them on its own edges into nope territory for me.

Re: Not Cool AU scenarios

(Anonymous) 2014-03-04 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
It all depends on how you'd go about it, I suppose. Could it be cheap and angsty and an exaggerated high school drama with the wrong writer? Sure. Could it be heartbreaking and a fascinating look into psychology with the right one? Sure to that too. Sometimes things are interesting when they're extreme where things that wouldn't ever happen otherwise with lesser stakes, do.

Those are some pretty specific standards for genocide AU, anyway. And not at all as narrow a field I'd think of if you told me only "genocide AU". I'd think of any AU involving, happening alongside, or being impacted by a genocide. Like a "war AU" could involve anything to do with war, not only frontline soldiers, couldn't it?