Ask Me Anything December #2
Dec. 8th, 2018 10:23 amFor the Ask Me Anything December meme - Day #2
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schneefink: What are your favorite kinds of AU and why?
Crossovers, obviously, but we’ll come back to that.
In a move that will come as no surprise to anyone who has read my collected works, domestic AU and found family AUs top out my list. I also love messing with details in any universe just a little bit, so for Yuri on Ice, it would be a ballet AU where Yuuri stuck with dance instead of skating.
For the former, it has to do with building relationships (which is what fanfic is all about and I will fight a body on this) and exploring more about the characters themselves. Also found family is wonderful and the best part of crossovers is saying “well of course these characters are already connected it makes perfect sense the set-up is all there in canon so let’s just go with it shall we).
The little detail swap AUs have to do with minor tweaks to how a character’s life and path turned out, and looking at how they will still make these deep relationships with others even though some parts of their life turned out differently.
But going into the way-back machine, I cut my teeth writing crossover fanfic, and it has a lot to do with my love of remix culture – taking the really cool elements of two (or more) things and smooshing them together and making it work. Because when you can figure out how to make it work? (Like how to put together Anita Blake and Harry Potter and make it work?) that is an amazing feeling.
The question today comes from
schneefink: What are your favorite kinds of AU and why? Crossovers, obviously, but we’ll come back to that.
In a move that will come as no surprise to anyone who has read my collected works, domestic AU and found family AUs top out my list. I also love messing with details in any universe just a little bit, so for Yuri on Ice, it would be a ballet AU where Yuuri stuck with dance instead of skating.
For the former, it has to do with building relationships (which is what fanfic is all about and I will fight a body on this) and exploring more about the characters themselves. Also found family is wonderful and the best part of crossovers is saying “well of course these characters are already connected it makes perfect sense the set-up is all there in canon so let’s just go with it shall we).
The little detail swap AUs have to do with minor tweaks to how a character’s life and path turned out, and looking at how they will still make these deep relationships with others even though some parts of their life turned out differently.
But going into the way-back machine, I cut my teeth writing crossover fanfic, and it has a lot to do with my love of remix culture – taking the really cool elements of two (or more) things and smooshing them together and making it work. Because when you can figure out how to make it work? (Like how to put together Anita Blake and Harry Potter and make it work?) that is an amazing feeling.