Meta Monday : I don’t drink coffee, a post about AUs

May 12, 2015 01:22

Hi! Welcome to Meta Monday, in which I go tl;dr about stuff.

I very nearly titled this "AUs are gold" but I figured no one wanted to deal with Periodic Table of Elements jokes at whatever time it is wherever you are.

So, way back when these were supposed to be a December Talking meme, wordsofastory asked "Favorite types of AUs! Or just your general ( Read more... )

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ladymercury_10 May 11 2015, 23:49:47 UTC
I very nearly titled this "AUs are gold" but I figured no one wanted to deal with Periodic Table of Elements jokes at whatever time it is wherever you are.
What are you talking about, science jokes are always excellent at any time of the day! :P (Lol, now I am having fond memories of the Chemistry Cat meme.)

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dhampyresa May 13 2015, 23:02:00 UTC
There's another science joke under the cut just for you. (I don't think I've ever seen the Chemistry Cat meme, clearly my life has been sadly deprived.)

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ladymercury_10 May 14 2015, 00:30:15 UTC
There are a bunch of Chemistry Cat posts here! :)

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dhampyresa May 15 2015, 23:27:26 UTC
OMg, that's amazing like Oxygen and Magnesium.

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wordsofastory May 12 2015, 01:11:37 UTC
This was a great post! Your division of types of AUs is pretty much the same way I think about things. It's also interesting how some characters are so much harder to adapt than others. I generally love AUs, but I've had fandoms where I just couldn't come up with believable scenarios for an AU that kept enough of the essential features of the characters, no matter how hard I tried.

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dhampyresa May 13 2015, 23:08:50 UTC
Thank you!

I think the closer a character's backstory is tied to their setting the harder it is to adapt them to another.

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_profiterole_ May 12 2015, 10:44:25 UTC
Je crois que j'aurais râté le jeu de mots si tu ne l'avais pas mentionné. Honte à moi ! XD

AU where everybody lives
J'approuve. Pour tout fandom. Même ceux dont je ne fais pas partie.

Une fois, j'ai discuté du concept "coffeeshop AU" avec une autre Française et du fait que sa popularité nous passait au-dessus. Culturellement parlant, c'est très américain, même si on a des Starbucks en France.

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dhampyresa May 13 2015, 23:16:46 UTC
Tu veux un bonnet d’âne?

J'approuve. Pour tout fandom. Même ceux dont je ne fais pas partie.
La même. J'aime bien aussi "tous les morts vivent ensemble", mais c'est plus rare (et pas tout à fait pareil).

Culturellement parlant, c'est très américain
Bon sang, mais c'est bien sur! Dit comme ça je comprend mieux.

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_profiterole_ May 14 2015, 13:40:43 UTC
"tous les morts vivent ensemble"

J'ai lu des fics comme ça pour Pacific Rim. Même en dehors des fics, je pars toujours un peu de ce principe-là. Ca vient de ma jeunesse traumatisée par les CLAMP qui ne tuaient jamais qu'une personne par pairing. Les sadiques ! >_>

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