Re: Last fic you read
anonymous
March 3 2014, 12:33:29 UTC
"what are you harping on about?" (http://archiveofourown.org/works/1250269), Sterek fic with Stiles being the most awesome special snowflake ever. He's not only a A-student but is a total bad-ass deputy sheriff and secretly a supernatural creature shifter. Also he's an asexual and feels oppressed because of it. I liked the writing style, though.
Re: Last fic you read
anonymous
March 3 2014, 14:34:19 UTC
I started a punk!au for by an author I like but meh, got bored. Not that the author's writing isn't excellent, but it's just (1) I was a punk and hung around with annoying-ass punks so been there, done that, and (2) when it comes down to it, AUs are really useless for me because they don't enhance the canon relationshp at all, and the canon relationship is what I'm after.
Re: Last fic you read
anonymous
March 3 2014, 16:02:47 UTC
ayrt
Definitely it's easier for authors, because in canon-setting they'd have to deal with the worldbuilding, military structure, ages of characters, canon characterizations, etc. But it just seems anymore that "AU" is the default setting, like so many fanarts and headcanons that are posted under the tag on tumblr are AU and then someone draws it and someone else writes it and yay for participation but boo for awesome writing in canon.
Re: Last fic you read
anonymous
March 3 2014, 16:49:49 UTC
AYRT
Oh, gripe away anon, I almost posted something along these lines in Unpopular. And added examples for newest Bond because spying is as difficult to write as military.
(Still, can't remember if FMA had these problems? Then again, it had enough non-military events going on, and tumblr wasn't present.)
Yes, a large part of it is probably communal squee. What's worse is that it sucks away whatever creativity present in the concept, because I might be interested in one coffee shop AU if you can sell it, but I'm not interested in 100 that will most likely have overlapping pairing and characterisation.
(Military canteen divergence AU would be awesome though IMO.)
Re: Last fic you read
anonymous
March 3 2014, 17:31:45 UTC
I heard about that junior high spinoff, and holy moley it looks like so much crack. Not in a bad way, mind you. Maybe people will start writing canon if they can write canon AUs? Hah. (I definitely couldn't read smutfic if it involved characters that young, however.)
Re: Last fic you read
anonymous
March 3 2014, 17:55:10 UTC
i joined fma fandom not long after the first anime finished in japan and was airing for the first time in english, and there was definitely not this much au that had nothing to do with canon. there were a lot of first anime canon divergent aus where ed and al had their normal bodies back and had never left their own world, but without any sort of explanation, though.
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wtf with all the AU in SnK fandom gdi
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Definitely it's easier for authors, because in canon-setting they'd have to deal with the worldbuilding, military structure, ages of characters, canon characterizations, etc. But it just seems anymore that "AU" is the default setting, like so many fanarts and headcanons that are posted under the tag on tumblr are AU and then someone draws it and someone else writes it and yay for participation but boo for awesome writing in canon.
just griping don't mind me
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Oh, gripe away anon, I almost posted something along these lines in Unpopular. And added examples for newest Bond because spying is as difficult to write as military.
(Still, can't remember if FMA had these problems? Then again, it had enough non-military events going on, and tumblr wasn't present.)
Yes, a large part of it is probably communal squee. What's worse is that it sucks away whatever creativity present in the concept, because I might be interested in one coffee shop AU if you can sell it, but I'm not interested in 100 that will most likely have overlapping pairing and characterisation.
(Military canteen divergence AU would be awesome though IMO.)
Then again, there is canonical junior high AU spinoff, so... (http://kc.kodansha.co.jp/content/top.php/1000006211)
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Heed the warnings, but it's really fucking good. Great Tony voice, great Bruce, excellently disturbing.
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