#like canon divergent is technically an AU

[tragicclownwrites]

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[half-a-life-left]

LOYALTY (PART 6/?)

[thespacebetweenworlds]

Season 3 of Wheel of Time looks incredible but it's coming in March which is in 4 months which is good except I'm only 5k into my planned 40k+ toxic lesbians Wheel of Time fic and it thematically just really needs to be published before season 3

[oceanwithouthermoon]

kaido thinks hes kubosais designated third wheel, when actually theyve been trying to worm him into the polycule for months

[why-is-it-always-autumn]

The problem with big fandoms (using "problem" in a very loose sense here) is that it's really hard to stumble across the weird niche undertagged stuff when its being buried in five million coffee shop/royalty/high school/soulmate aus. If there are 150 works in the tag total you can look through very quickly and find anything that appeals to you. When there are over a million it is much harder to do that.

[lab-trash]

So, uh... I may, or may not, be writing a Midam college fic about Adam's friends slowly thinking he's crazy and then learning he's bodying with an archangel.

And it might include Clark Barker, because I'm a huge sucker for that dumbass.

And I was wondering if you would maybe be interested in maybe reading that?

[aestheticallynotdeerlightful]

So. Who’d be interested in hearing more about my Terios!Sonic au :]

[iamnmbr3]

Ain't Thorki is a family ship between Thor Odinson and Loki....

Plz tell me you don't actually ship family

omg they're WHAT?! wow. I had no idea. thank u for letting me know. i thought the 9239432843824923890 times they called each other "brother" in canon referred to them being brothers in arms or something. i thought they were just really good friends who lived together in the same palace and both referred to the same people as father and mother. omg. can't believe I totally missed that. Thanks for sending this totally helpful and good faith ask to point it out.

I will definitely stop reading thorki fics immediately and will never post any thorki content again. Instead I'll just consume popular mainstream content like Game of Thrones. Which is totally fine. Bc it's made by HBO and thus allowed to portray problematic content without needing to be censored.

[acerathia]

labeling my relationship with obito as 'complicated' bc it just is

[bizarrelittlemew]

Hey thanks for that great detailed and researched answer about AU's in this fandom! (/gen) My curiosity is satisfied! It's always interesting to see how fandoms respond to their shows in fic, isn't it? 😄 AU's just aren't my thing and I'll keep digging for the canon-verse fics, but you all keep writing them! Ed and Stede *will* be in love in every 'verse if you carry on! 💕

you're welcome!! and thank you for the interesting question!

i wish you happy reading and that you will have a good time if you ever do give AUs a chance 😌

a note due to some of the tags on the other post: canon divergence is tagged as AU on AO3 (and is supposed to be tagged that way). "Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence" is the commonly used tag, and is a subtag of "Alternate Universe - Canon". so if you're interested in canonverse fics and don't mind that they deviate from canon, i'm guessing filtering out the "Alternate Universe" metatag will hide them from you. if you look at the subtags here, you can get some inspiration for exactly which tags you want to filter out (or search!) ✌️ (it's a long list but you can see which tags are subtags to other tags - e.g. if you filter out "Alternate Universe - Retail" you automatically exclude bookstore, flower shop, music store, pet store etc.)

[tanjaded]

I have a surprising number of fics (aka, more than the ones that are in the official AU series) that are technically in the same timeline as Crushing on a Devil and I just never mentioned it

[sneak-a-cat]

when you are listening to your liked songs and rediscover a song that now perfectly encapsulates the first scene in a fic you've been planning for months and the main pairings relationship in general and-

i am deceased insane for this so overjoyed its literally perfect.

[kingofanemptyworld]

I’m just going to accept at this point that I can’t do long-fics. I’m not built for that. Instead I’ve found my niche in interconnected one-shots that span an indeterminate amount of time and can be anywhere from a single scene to a cross-section of an entire arc. And then I can just get the idea out of my head and pick it up again whenever the urge strikes me. No need to feel guilty about not updating that wip with 2/? chapters currently posted

[thatone-highlighter]

ILYSMMMMMMM i’m so honored that i’m someone you think about and enjoy talking to <333 u can message me on disc literally anytime about literally anything and i’ll enjoy it bc i think ur so so neat ILY DUCKIEEEE

CAAAATTTTTT

I really wanna talk to u and stuff but im so bad with coming up with things to talk about shdkdhshhs

[arcadia-of-pluto]

Twist of Fate; Masterlist

Pairings; OT4 x reader

Themes; isekai, eventual smut (I would add au, but it's technically not...but there is canon divergence!)

Warnings; 18+ for swearing and some mature themes

Notes; This is a work in progress so please bear with me if I make mistakes! I might also write more than just this but ToF is going to be my main priority as of right now! You can ask me any questions if you'd like and I'll do my best to answer them! I've been writing for eleven years on and off (one-shots only, no stories) and thought I'd try my hand at a story.

Upload Schedule; Every weekend (either fri, sat, or sun)

ToF on AO3 || About the Writer || Future Plans

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"Will you enter the game?"

"Please take care of them for me.."

Late one night while playing Love and Deepspace, you get a message from an unknown person in-game. After going back and forth with them for a few minutes, you fall asleep and suddenly wake up inside of the game as the main protagonist.

This is your story.

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Twenty One

Twenty Two

Twenty Three

Twenty Four

Twenty Six

Twenty Five

Twenty Seven

Twenty Eight

Twenty Nine

Thirty

More to come...

[blackkatdraws2]

This little NPC is lost. The Narrator [Black] has come to guide her back to where she needs to be. [Blank Scripts AU]

I imagine Black would be a lot more tolerant toward his NPCs since they're basically just the Dungeons spawns, and by extension, his own creations.

[If you're familiar with manhwas / manhuas that features the dungeon / system genre, you'd be able to understand this AU a lot easier. The majority of my inspiration for worldbuilding came from those specific genres.]

[NOTE: 'Dungeon' is just another term for the Parable. Technically, Black owns a Dungeon and the Parable is just a small part of it. The Dungeon itself is much, much larger.]

For context, the comic below references this post about the Dungeon's children/guard dogs.

[They're more like the immune system since all they do is make sure the (body) is safe.]

[The reason the Narrator [Black] considers them his children is that the Dungeon is feeding off his energy and in turn shares the 'nutrients' to the monsters it produces, which transforms them into an image that resembles his power.]

And the old man below is Joseph!

Joseph is NOT AN NPC! He is a person who exists outside of the Dungeon!

[There are two separate 'worlds' for this AU. Inside the Dungeon (where most of the game-like stuff is happening) and the world outside (pretty much their normal world.)]

[There is a secret third world, and that's our world. Our reality.]

These characters are not actually important or anything, I just made them to make the AU feel more lively. To make a world that exists, you know?

When the Narrator [Black] first established himself in their world, he found a growing problem with homelessness. Not understanding human norms or why this has become a problem in the first place, he offers (tricks) them into working for him as janitors for the Dungeon and they accept for the money.

Most of them left after they got paid, but Joseph was one of the people who stayed. He doesn't have anywhere else to go and has no ambitions in life. He just wishes to live a peaceful life with food and a roof over his head.

Joseph defaults to referring to the Narrator [Black] with feminine terms due to his appearance despite his voice. The Narrator [Black] is not the type to care for such terms anyway so he doesn't care how other people refer to him as long as there's respect.

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This post focuses more on the worldbuilding and background aspects of the AU! There are a lot more in store for the Blank Scripts AU, and I want to explore more on how the characters might interact with their surroundings and how this would work to make a world that makes sense.

It would be so cool if people made self-inserts or OCs for my AU actually. I'd love to see how you guys would work with my stuff. Play around with it like a barbie world for your little barbie dolls. Be canon compliant, be canon divergent, who cares, have fun.