#aus......... nnot a fan of those

[carlyraejepsans]

Are there any "classic" aus (fell, swap, outertale, horror, etc.) that you enjoy? Or ones that you feel have an interesting concept but a pretty bad execution?

Personally, I'm of the belief that a lot of them did have some amazing concepts in the beginning but were ultimately flanderized by the fandom due to just how allergic they were to any characters that weren't Sans or Papyrus, no matter how much it just didn't make sense for them to be involved. Like, I just don't understand ink!sans for example. Maybe i'm just missing smth

I feel as though you've probably answered questions about this before and if you have I am so sorry. The search function on mobile is awful </3

i think pretty much every main au landed in the "mid to ok concept, bad execution", if only because to become main aus in the first place they had to be visually distinct yet vague enough in characterization/execution for people to play around in like a sandbox. which is not exactly ground for a good story—or exploration of the original one, for what matters. if an au is really good, you're not going to hear of it getting lumped in with the multiverse extravaganza stuff. it's going to be a standalone comic. or fic. or whatever. it NEEDS its own story to exist for the characters to work, and that can't happen on a large scale like the au fandom where the entire point is to mix and match everything into the same blender and start the interactions from there.

so uh. no. not really. but i recognize that i'm also just too uninterested in that side of the fandom to look deeper and try to prove myself wrong.