memery!

[vaznetti]

As seen on yahtzee63's lj --

The Hypothetical AU Meme: Take any one of the fandoms you know I write AND give me another time period (Ancient Rome, Regency England, etc.). I will then explain what story from that fandom I would AU in that era.

It looks like fun, and I am here all afternoon -- meme me!

Comments

[selenak]

Well, you did write one or two Rome ficlets, so I dare you: the Julii plus Vorenus and Pullo in WWI-torn Europe, country of your choice.

[se_parsons]

Or IN SPACE!!!!

[vaznetti]

I have always thought that if Lucas had been thinking (if he were capable of thinking) he would have done something like that for the Star Wars prequels. I mean, you have the huge territory controlled by a corrupt and ineffective Senate, the gradual rise of generals to such extraordinary power that the system can no longer contain them -- then an autocratic movement which portrays itself as a return to old-fashioned, uncorrupt ways, but in fact destroys everything meaningful about the old order... It could totally have worked

[se_parsons]

Oooh, I love the Atia and Octavia angle.

You know, you could totally write this for real by changing it up some. I would read that book for sure.

[vaznetti]

Well, the obvious choice would be to pull a reverse-Syme, with Octavian as a would-be Mussolini in the years just after the war