#but hey. maybe in a funny au

[nikatyler]

nika how many times do you want to completely change mason’s appearance?

yes

[dontvap0rdawave]

They share a singular braincell, and none of them have it right now

[hollis-art]

I am in love with your 80s AU. Do you have anymore amazing information to share about the crew on their apartment? ❤️

i do! honestly not a lot, though. i didn't expect so many people to like the AU so much

there is a little story line of Lal and Molly being friends! it's almost all i've thought about for the AU actually... before the O'Brien family moved to ds9, i think Data and Keiko bonded over being one of the only few with little kids in the building, so they hung out a LOT. imagine Keiko and Data gossiping at the little tea party their daughters are throwing??? this still happens once the O'Briens move ofc but sadly not as much

then there's also the case of Picard and Q. Picard is the headmaster of the college that Data goes to (where he gets a really big deal off on his tuition because Dr. Soong was an alumnus at the school or something? i dunno), and he's this long-suffering guy who comes home after a long day at work, just wanting to watch some old horse film he has re-watched to the point the VHS has worn through, and then every so often Q is just there, lounging on the couch in his underwear and a frilly robe. like Q is not a good roommate (he's LOUD and ANNOYING and LOVES invading Picard's personal space), but that doesn't matter because he's hardly ever even there. I like to think that he's an actor in this AU, but specifically local community theater sort of actor and he will never just tell anyone he acts. he'll tell them that he's whatever his current character is. which is why Picard is under the assumption that Q is a lawyer (to be fair he did go to law school, but he dropped out to do his other passion instead). in turn, Q is under the impression that they are both deeply in love with each other (Picard cannot stand the man)

oh, and also!! in this AU, Riker and Worf are both personal trainers and that's how they met :) i just think them working together and helping various people out right beside each other is really cute. Riker would be the kind of guy to just be really enthusiastic and supportive to his clients while Worf would just yell with them as they are dying from exhaustion to hype them up so they can keep going

[maxladcomics]

Is it time for everyone to make a Vampire AU now?

[maize-is-lost]

Pikmin 4 au where instead of landing near the S.S. Shepard you land near wherever Leafling Olimar hangs out and instead of developing your fun little found family with your crewmates you're out in the wilderness reenacting Survivor with every castaway you pick up and this Leafling guy who wakes you up everyday at 4 am like "Wake up kid it's Dandori or Death" and keeps trying to convince you and everyone you rescue to embrace the leaves

[ratatatastic]

men who have a normal relationship with each other and the cup

[alicentflorent]

HOTD really should pick a fucking lane when it comes to Aegon and what kind of person they want him to be. Last season they introduced adult Aegon by having the opening scene be of teenage servant coming forward as aegons rape victim and aegon himself showing no remorse when confronted. Then the following episode he’s revealed to be down right sadistic because he bit only rapes, but he watches children in fighting pits for entertainment and profit, he SA’d Aemond by forcing him into a brothel when he turned 13. The show wanted him set up as their version of joffrey. Cruel and depraved, someone capable of being a worthy opponent/villain for Rhaenyra simply because he’s capable of sick and evil things. Then comes 2.01 and they’ve (yet again) done a complete 180 with his character by reverting him back to the teenage version of aegon, clueless about politics, definitely an asshole but not quite a villain, more of a comedic character than a super dark one. Either you want a character to be a clear cut villain or a grey character that we can sympathise with and understand at first but we continue to watch them become more irredeemable. They failed in writing one nuanced character that is somewhere in between these two versions who they are building up to become more sinister and a bigger threat as the war goes on

[unproduciblesmackdown]

winston (quant kid 2) (billions) declining a hookup (or work shit) later to instead give himself multiple orgasms (or go to math meetup)

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

ok but how funny would it be if i put a lil Shenanigan in the Lights Out au where a couple of teenagers break into the ~spooky abandoned studio~ and throw Eddie in the water. like. they just find him and toss his little 4ft body in the Lake™️for shits and gigs

[xenon-demon]

I fucking love pretty much every version of the “celebrity x Just Some Guy™” trope that there is for Steddie, but in honor of having a totally reasonable amount of wine I’m going to tell you about the version I’m currently thinking about all the time, one of my dumbest yet also funniest AU concepts: modern!AU with streamers Steve & Robin and Hardcore Fan™ Eddie who writes reader-insert fic about Steve.

Steve and Robin, aka EvenStevens and BirdBox_ on Twitch (“My name is spelled with a P-H, Robin, that’s such a stupid name.” “No, it’s actually even better this way! You don’t want to just use your real government name for something like this, and you would just make your username ‘SteveHarrington01′ or something equally uninspired-”) frequently stream together and have a shared YouTube channel. They got popular doing reaction videos that quickly devolve into the pair of them bickering on camera, and since the internet just loves the ‘snarky woman and her emotional support himbo’ dynamic, they got very big, very quick. Plus, it certainly doesn’t hurt that they had the combined might of Dustin and Erica to help them bend the algorithm to their whims.

While most people recognize their platonic-with-a-capital-P soulmatism, there are still some that are convinced they’re secretly dating - they can’t decide if it’s hilarious or absolutely maddening that every time they try to disprove the rumors, they somehow get stronger. Robin doesn’t feel comfortable coming out to the internet yet, and without that trump card some people just can’t understand why they’re not dating.

...there are other sections of their fandom, however, that absolutely do believe they’re not dating. Mainly because they’d rather be dating Steve or Robin (or both!) themselves, and write all the reader-insert fanfiction you could ever possibly need about it. Robin is largely ambivalent to the concept of fanfiction being written about herself as long as they’re not writing smut, since at least that way they’re not insisting she’s dating Steve.

Steve on the other hand finds it absolutely hilarious how despite how much he’s changed, he’s back to being the heartthrob he used to be in high school - and, he’ll be honest, he thrives on the attention. He’s given everyone the green light to write whatever they want - dared them to make it raunchier, even - to the point where it’s a running joke that Steve will read your reader-insert fanfiction about him unless you tag it with some form of ‘Steve don’t look’. He even used the prevalence of fic about himself to come out on stream.

(Steve’s in the middle of re-organizing his flower field in Animal Crossing when he’s interrupted by a donation. “Hey Steve, really sorry to tell you this but people are writing porn about you... and they’re making it gay. Like writing about you getting fucked by a dude. Just wanted you to know so you can say something about it.”

Steve stops dead, his screen freezing on his open inventory. “Hey, uh, why the fuck would I have a problem about a fictional version of me bottoming? Or- wait, do I seriously give off homophobic vibes? I’m literally bisexual. Hey Dustin, can you ban that guy please? Christ, the nerve of some people. If that’s how you feel about people being gay, or about people writing things that I’ve already said I have no problem with, you can leave this stream right now because I don’t want you here.“)

Many people lost their minds after that stream, one of them being popular tumblr blog whorefireclub.

Eddie didn’t plan on starting a tumblr blog for self-insert fanfiction about a twitch streamer. Really he didn’t, and every time he thinks about it in terms that plain he kind of dies a little on the inside. It’s really all Gareth’s fault, for getting fed up with Eddie’s dumb parasocial crush on a streamer and daring him to just “get it out of his system already”. So, using a bare-bones anonymous tumblr and many, many beers as his cover story, Eddie posted some of the most quickly written and unedited pieces of writing he’s ever produced in his life.

Except he wrote it with an AMAB reader character - and for those of you unfamiliar with the reader-insert sphere, that’s like fucking hen’s teeth. People are pretty good at making things gender neutral at least in their descriptions, and sometimes the anatomy is vague enough that it’s ambiguous, but the majority is written with AFAB genitalia for the reader character.

Eddie’s little drunken post blows up, and at first, he’s never regretted a life choice more.

After thinking about it, and seeing just how many people left comments with their reblogs or came into his askbox directly to thank him for giving them the representation they wanted, he starts to feel a bit better about the whole thing. In fact, it kind of tickles his “protector of the outcasts” instincts; there are people who can’t enjoy the content they want to because it doesn’t gel with their anatomy or gender identity. Eddie could, hypothetically, if he wanted to be absolutely insane about this one hot streamer guy, help fix that problem somewhat.

A couple of months later and he’s become “the guy who writes inclusive reader-insert fic”. While a fair amount of his work is gender-ambiguous, both in anatomy and in avoiding gendered language, more than half is written for anyone who finds themselves underrepresented in the usual reader-insert scene; anyone AMAB, AFAB people who can’t do female language, he’s even written a few oneshots with intersex reader characters. He did research for it and everything. It’s certainly not how he planned for this to work out, but it’s actually kind of... nice. He’d written a lot of fanfiction in his youth, mainly about Lord of the Rings and Star Trek, and while this isn’t how he’d imagined returning to the hobby it’s actually really fun. (It’s making his celebrity crush on Steve a million times worse, of course, but he’s in denial about that so it’s totally fine.)

He’s a little shit, so his blog header has - underneath his personal details - a PSA that reads “Steve, don’t look at this unless you have the balls to shout me out on stream ;)”. Eddie thinks he’s absolutely hilarious.

Right up until he wakes up to find his following has exploded overnight, and upon checking his DMs from his mutuals realizes that - oh shit - that bastard actually did it and talked about his blog on stream.

And Steve said he liked it. Steve likes the porn that Eddie wrote about him. Jesus H. Christ, Eddie is so unfathomably fucked.

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if this were to exist as a fic it would be told through social media posts/DMs. one of those fics that uses unconventional (i.e. non-prose) formatting, you know the ones. the concept actually came from the fact I fucking LOVE fics like that, I’m a slut for any of that House of Leaves-type shit. one time I read a fic that consisted of 8 short stories and each one had a HTML puzzle you had to solve to be able to read it, e.g. one you had to highlight because the text was in white, another you needed to hover your mouse over to make it scroll through the text - I can’t remember the rest but it was SO COOL.

(or, to put this another way, I read homestuck at a formative age and it forever changed how I feel about formatting stories.)

[im-kino853]

more trigun idol au doodle dump ig More. under cut

silly guy (forgive me for the amounts of babymetal references...)

[saym0-0]

au where, when going to pick up toy soldier from the ruins of the wax museum, the mechanisms also pick up tim (stoker)'s body, turning him into a mech. i just think mechanism!tim stoker is so silly he deserves it

[soundwave-radioandbroadcast]

I'm having more brainworms for the "Tarn and Rodimus are brothers" AU.

Like Rodimus having this dead look in his eyes. Like he comes off as very cheerful and happy, a jokester, maybe kind of guided by his ego but no one can, expect Drift but even he sometimes has to look away, look him in his optics because they look so dead and lifeless.

His optics so dead and lifeless because he never got a chance to mourn his "dead" brother, the trauma of the war and suddenly becoming a prime.

Maybe Tarn has much more warmer or like kinder looking optics, maybe because he could still hear Rodimus' thoughts and in a way that help ground him, help him stay sane while he commit horrid acts in Megatron's name and the Decepticon cause.

Maybe his kinder eyes make it easier for people to look at him, make it easier for him to kill people, because why wouldn't you trust the mech with the warm, gentle, maybe soft red optics who smiles so sweetly and voice is like honey, maybe how he kills you will be much quicker and merciful. Almost like a siren's song he abuses.

[kaeyachi]

modern!Kaeya wearing high fashion casually and always looking good in it

he looks like he should be on a runway with how bizarre but cool and artistic his outfits are

and sometimes, the stuff he wears should not have been wearable in the streets, and yet he looks oddly normal in them? It's the way he moves and the way he looks that make the clothes he wears truly work ( it takes confidence and proper planning to rock said outfits in the first place, and he does it so well).

People would take a double take if he ends up wearing something simple like a button up with slacks. He looks underdressed all of the sudden lmao (they legit go "Who are you and what did you do to our Kaeya?!")

[sock-kaleidoscope]

Ofif au spoilers!!!

[numberfiveisback]

not sure if the idea exists already but...

CC/Evan being stuck in a loop of his own birthday. Aka death day. Think Groundhog's Day!

Nobody else remembers the loop of course. Just him. And he has to find a way to end said loop despite the fact he always somehow gets nomed on or vibe checked in increasingly concerning ways.

He manages to escape the diner? He forgot to look both ways crossing the street. He gets past the street? A stray baseball knocks the life out of his body. He somehow gets home? He trips on his own feet and hits his head against a table.

At one point Mike jumpscares him and his heart gives out.

By Day 73 of the loop he's sick of everything and probably decks Michael. Unfortunately the surprise of doing it makes him faint and oh there he goes hitting his head again--