In your own space, put some favorite characters into an AU, fuse some favorite canons together, talk about your favorite AU/fusion tropes, or tell us why AU/fusions aren’t your cup of tea. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Well, I was *going* to finish up an AU prompt meme that I owe to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
romanajo123 from literally months ago, but RL has been very much demanding the priority this week (general exams, yay! XD) so instead I will simply make the resolution of doing it very soon. It was a great prompt and I look forward to finally doing it when there is brain!
In general, I don't think I've ever done a fusion fic or setting-change AU longer than the mini-ficlets from the prompt memes, and for me that seems to scratch the itch. Once I've found roles for everyone, that's what I wanted out of the fusion--no need to keep going! But then I'm not a very plotty writer in general. Of course, I write mainly in Doctor Who, and you can already put them in pretty much any setting canonically, so the whole question is a bit moot actually!
(I think I would draw a lot of fusions and setting AU if I were a visual artist, because that's the same thing--just the vignette of character + setting is exactly what I want. I did draw an eighteenth-century Mel Bush once. She had a polka dot apron.)
On the other hand, I really enjoy good crossovers--especially when they act as a sort of quasi-meta, a way to comment on characters and characterization, by bringing either two similar characters or two very different characters together.
On the crackier side, I love those fics that bring together characters played by the same actor. I was listening to The Eternal Summer and thinking that it's at least my second-favorite audio drama in which Peter Davison gets trapped in an English country village by alien forces, and maybe I would write a crossover with it if I can keep this WtOVPIC writing streak up.
Oh, yeah, I never said what I wrote for Yuletide, did I? Well, at least not here, I've been talking about it everywhere else I think! It was two fics for Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully, an assignment ("Bestride the Narrow World") forthisbluespirit and a treat ("Dear Villageswap Author (Probably Lucy, Let's Be Honest)") for isis. I got lovely comments from both recipients and was pleasantly surprised to see how many people knew the fandom enough to enjoy the stories! The first was what counts as plotty for me, while the second was exactly as meta as the title suggests, so I felt like I stretched myself a bit, which was nice.
( Cut for intense writerly navel-gazing )
Well, I was *going* to finish up an AU prompt meme that I owe to
romanajo123 from literally months ago, but RL has been very much demanding the priority this week (general exams, yay! XD) so instead I will simply make the resolution of doing it very soon. It was a great prompt and I look forward to finally doing it when there is brain!In general, I don't think I've ever done a fusion fic or setting-change AU longer than the mini-ficlets from the prompt memes, and for me that seems to scratch the itch. Once I've found roles for everyone, that's what I wanted out of the fusion--no need to keep going! But then I'm not a very plotty writer in general. Of course, I write mainly in Doctor Who, and you can already put them in pretty much any setting canonically, so the whole question is a bit moot actually!
(I think I would draw a lot of fusions and setting AU if I were a visual artist, because that's the same thing--just the vignette of character + setting is exactly what I want. I did draw an eighteenth-century Mel Bush once. She had a polka dot apron.)
On the other hand, I really enjoy good crossovers--especially when they act as a sort of quasi-meta, a way to comment on characters and characterization, by bringing either two similar characters or two very different characters together.
On the crackier side, I love those fics that bring together characters played by the same actor. I was listening to The Eternal Summer and thinking that it's at least my second-favorite audio drama in which Peter Davison gets trapped in an English country village by alien forces, and maybe I would write a crossover with it if I can keep this WtOVPIC writing streak up.
Oh, yeah, I never said what I wrote for Yuletide, did I? Well, at least not here, I've been talking about it everywhere else I think! It was two fics for Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully, an assignment ("Bestride the Narrow World") for
thisbluespirit and a treat ("Dear Villageswap Author (Probably Lucy, Let's Be Honest)") for isis. I got lovely comments from both recipients and was pleasantly surprised to see how many people knew the fandom enough to enjoy the stories! The first was what counts as plotty for me, while the second was exactly as meta as the title suggests, so I felt like I stretched myself a bit, which was nice.( Cut for intense writerly navel-gazing )
