oh yeah

[lazulisong]

AND WHERE ARE THE RETARDED BAND AUs, PEOPLE? THE RETARDED BAND AUs THAT INVOLVE DRACO BEING EMO LIKE LINKIN PARK GROWLING LYRICS TO THOUSANDS OF SCREAMING TEENIES AND HARRY HAVING A PRIVATE MOMENT WITH HIS GUITAR ON STAGE?!

shut up I LIKE band AUs

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[icebluesilver]

I AGREE.

As to your last post, try wandering around Contra Veritas (http://www.contraveritas.com/archive/).. Some make me want to claw my eyes out, but it's got a rather more mature writer-base. I recommend 'Bachelor Party' by Neuri (http://www.contraveritas.com/archive/viewuser.php?uid=96), if only because I love his and her characterisation... it's rather well written :)

That's about what I can get off the top of my head.

[icebluesilver]

Uh, on a second note... y'know the D/Hr fic you noted in your last post? The valentine's one? It's by Neuri too -_-;; just noticed.

[startredder]

. . . This Thing is a phase, right?

[lazulisong]

*soothingly* I just cycle through fandoms, dear. Soon I'll be back to trying to put fourteen year old boys in bed together. Don't worry.

[flyby]

Short answer: because there are hardly any AUs at all.

Long answer: for some reason I cannot fathom HP fandom is obsessed with Staying As Close To Canon As Possible Because JKR Is God. The idea that 'fixed' canon could also be open to interpretation (or changed! in fic! gasp!) is something that is totally alien to the fandom, really. Probably the main contributing factors are that the very first mailing lists were totally canon-only, and the main archives are totally insistent on all the small canon details (like spell names and age restrictions and stuff) being 100% correct. It means that there are very very few of the 'small' AUs - the what if kind where a few details are changed - and even fewer of the big ones. I can think of one major AU fic - copperbadge's Stealing Harry. That's pretty much it.

Whoa. I ramble. Sorry.

[cephy]

... *snerks loudly*

Yes, that does need to be written. My goodness, yes.

/delurks

[blacktheboots]

so, recs:
band!fic
Blush is close, but is a WIP that hasn't been updated since 2002
So You Want To Transfigure Yourself a Rock Band
the ongoing au at dirtytrousers features a band (not with Draco or Harry as band members, but they do feature as characters...)
the moste lamentable tragedie of prince wyrd and the milkemaide [working title] is more along the line of pantomine fic than band fic, but close enough
generic recs
A Little to the Left, Professor Snape/Hermione
Draco/Harry
Cliche #5 Remus/Sirius
Of Cloaks and Daggers Snape/Remus
Physical Education Remus/Sirius
Seven Things That Never Happened At Hogwarts On Valentines Day, Or Maybe They Did Remus/Sirius
A Run in Tights gen
These Are Words That Go Together Well James/Lily
Man of the People Harry/Draco
The Revenge of Lord Vodkamort Technically Ron/Hermione and Harry/Ginny, but mostly just funny