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.
I like mice.
Well, pixies. Reposting all my recent pixie works because I’m obsessed with these mouse/rat sized little shits. Lil adorable marsupials. Total snacks. Eat em by the handful.
Reblog to bonk your mutuals on the head every time they start thinking negatively about themselves
Requirements for marriage.
Rough comic I made quite a while ago for chapter 23 of Trod. They are both dumb
[Transformers Until one💫] nova storm
Forgive me my bare bones rp blogs, but i am five years out of practice RPing on tumblr and even in my day I never quite learned how to format a fancy system like most of the more well put together folk have. I have no interesting borders and i don't really have the energy to make icons for every expression as much as I wish I could. And as an unemployed disabled late 20-something I cant afford to commission any...
Maybe some day I can figure out how to do all that and it look natural for my characters. But until then, I'm sorry my posts are bare and uninteresting.
Fuckin uh update!
sketch comes with alt versions for most aus I’m slowly chipping away at but not gonna share probs until I’m done
(human, catgirl, furry, demon, troll, lamb,etc)
Sitting on some Ginger art. (And a vore themed succubus tat for her)
Someone come kick my ass and tell me to finish it or something.
does anyone else feel me. can anyone hear me in here.
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narinder being actually pretty physically affectionate hc my beloved
Streamer, gamer, artist, queer, furry. Foul mouthed stoner with just enough anxiety to need my emotional support friends in public.Keep it civil, keep it gay, and if a bitch sees cool art? Reblog it.
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