#and then come up with a seperate contemporary fic idea

[vampylily]

i wonder if my penchant of writing far-from-canon-AUs stems from the fact that canon rpf is really hard to characterize 🤔 you have to get a good sense of the general perception of the "person" to go on to explore what they would say/do. but for certain styled AUs, some of the wonky characterizations are covered by the fact that it's intrinsically part of the au. so you get a lil leeway.

an addition: my complete lack of knowledge on instruments/guitars/how bands work especially a big one like fob/touring might be a big part of why it's so hard to write for me.

setting aside music as shared love language throughout the band. i still have to describe shit and i literally can't. patrick plays the guitar and the most i can say is that it's shiny and red and maybe "patrick glimpsed down to check before he continued to sing into the mic." Joe plays the guitar and its "Joe's nimbles fingers flew over the strings." Pete plays the bass and its "Pete bopped his head down to keep rhythm as he played the bass." Andy plays the drums and its "Andy was drumming, his arms in constant motion."

and not the mention the movie references. they start saying shit like the [insert old movie] and i'm like. cool. i have to google that👍🏼

and not to mention, the generational gap between myself and fob/lack of knowledge on time periods, similiar to the movie thing. when talking about like 2005 fob with trl and warped tour and shit. it's literally a historical au for me bc i have very little frame of reference what life was like then. (<- girlie who was a child in 2005 and did not live in the us).

i guess AU gives me the ability to write with my favourite "characters" by scooping them up and plopping them in a universe where I know the rules and thus can figure out how they might react in those situations.

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