I Had A Thought Of "do People Not Know What AUs Are Anymore?" And Then I Remembered Nobody Explains Fandom

i had a thought of "do people not know what AUs are anymore?" and then i remembered nobody explains fandom stuff to new people anymore so it is entirely plausible people genuinely don't know what AUs are and nobody has explained it to them, so for today's lucky 10,000:

"AU" stands for "Alternate Universe" or "Alternative Universe" (same difference) and is basically any thought scenario for a fandom that isn't canon and can't fit within the canon universe. If it takes place in the canon universe but something is notably different, that is typically what's known as a "Canon divergent AU," because it diverges from canon.

an AU can be absolutely anything. There's a couple of widespread pan-fandom au scenarios that often get thrown around, like coffee shop aus, genderbend aus, hanahaki aus (hanahaki is a whole thing in itself i'd recommend researching on your own), etc. One you might hear sometimes is "crossover AU" which is when you have characters from one fandom interacting with characters from another.

You can have as many aus as you want. They can be whatever you want and you can do whatever you want in them. It's a sandbox for you to play around in and explore how things would be different or how the characters would act in those circumstances or environments. Maybe they have different relationships with each other. Maybe they behave slightly differently. Or you can just say "Okay, [x] is true. How did they get here? How would things have to be different for this to occur?" which can also be fun.

If you are ever confused about why people ship something that seems completely out of the blue or doesn't make sense to you in the canon setting, there's a good chance they like it in an AU setting! Not everything everybody is interacting with is necessarily the canon! Not everybody wants things to exist in canon and just want to explore playing dolls in a different sandbox and that's okay. And their sandbox might look a lot different than yours, and that's also okay. You have the freedom to make your sandbox whatever you please. Do whatever you want forever. Get funky with it. AUs are fun.

Okay that's my schpeal. everybody go have fun and play nice now.

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3sbeee

1 year ago

I just realized that the point of these was not to make a depiction of yourself that’s as accurate as possible but too late I suppose

A picrew chain? *looks closer* PERRY THE PICREW CHAIN?!. Haha sorry i had to make that joke,'cause that meme is stuck in my head and it's consuming every fiber of my being-. And the top picrew is perry the human whereas the bottom one is my actual picrew :p. Anywho i decided that i'm gonna make my OWN picrew chain after a long while of joining others' chains. Also,i edited the colors of the clothes and tea and also added the tail n' invisible beak in ibispaint 'cause the picrew didn't have any "perry" colors.

Picrew link: https://picrew.me/ja/image_maker/231305 (to copy paste :]).

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@r0ttingsystem @mayhem-moth @phillycheesesteakcore

@it-came-from-mount-ebott

@chiwhorei @ghosty-ghouls @your-penthouse-in-the-sky @hobgobknowsbest @3ntity56 @thesolitarygoblin @zegalba @morguemaw @glitchysquidd @nostalgiasoup @princeofmisfortune @cinnacowboy @the-girl-who-barks and anyone else who wants to join. Woahg that's a lot of tags.

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3sbeee

5 months ago

If your reasoning for thinking caitvi isn't "proper lesbian representation" has ANYTHING to do with them having to be a specific level of 'pure, healthy, unproblematic, nontoxic, etc', I have some bad news for you.

You have fallen for the homophobic demands of society that you have to be a well-behaved little gay in order to not stir the pot and coexist with the heteros among you. You have inadvertently convinced yourself that queer rep has to be held to higher standards in order to be acceptable for the masses to consume. And what a fucking goddamn shame that is.

Queer people should be allowed to be as messy, complicated, and human as anyone else.

Do not allow yourself to be manipulated into thinking a queer person has to be on their best behavior in order to be loved and admired.

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3sbeee

2 months ago

do me a solid and just reblog this saying what time it is where you are and what you’re thinking about in the tags.