Snowflake #3 and #4 (Public Post)

[author_by_night]

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.

It all just depends. I like some AUs better than others. I don't really like high school AUs or college AUs. I kind of understand the appeal, they are just not for me.

Also, I don't really like AUs where the entire context changes unless it really explores the what-ifs. Sort of like It's A Wonderful Life. That I can get behind, and have written. But if something major never happened yet the characters remain the same, it's harder for me to buy into. I'm no fun, basically. :P

I love fantasy fusions in non-fantasy fandoms.


In your own space, make a list of things that you wish existed in fandom or elsewhere, and/or that you'd like someone to create or do for you.

- Meta. I always say this, but I'll say it again. I miss meta. I'll take theories and deep character dives over shipping any day. Okay, that's a partial lie, shipping matters to me, though not to the same magnitude as a lot of fans. I have my ships, I love my ships, but it's not all I'm there for, you know?

- More kindness in fan communities. I'm currently in a fandom community that's so nice, and it's reminded me that actually, it IS possible. And drama is hardly new, so it's not that. Rather, I think it's about putting in the work to make a space kind and listening to one another.

For example, someone brought a concern up a few weeks ago, and when I read her post I sucked in my breath. Due to prior experience, I thought, this is it, this is the blow-up. (Even though I actually agreed with her. 100%.) Nope. While there were one or two comments which bordered on testy, that was the worst of it. I'll take "bordered on testy" over some of the things I've seen in prior fandoms. :P But why can't it always be like that, you know? Just listen to people. We're all in this together. *Is a Hufflepuff*

- Far more specific, but speaking of fusions actually, I want a fic where Buffy and Harry meet up for drinks and talk. Maybe it gets shippy, maybe not. I'd just love that.

- A pony. Not really, I just felt like throwing that in there. *Is a dork AND a Hufflepuff*

(Obligatory disclaimer, since I made Harry Potter references here - I don't stand by JK Rowling at all. She's a TERF, and I despise TERFs.)

Comments

[silveradept]

It's meta, I suppose, bit I've put more than 500k of words (between quotes and commentary) on the Dragonriders of Pern on AO3, and I really need to get the rest of it posted for a complete and clean away all the way through.

More kindness and talking through with other reasonable people with differences would be fantastic.

If you want to have the possibility of that Harry/Buffy drink, maybe join intoabar if you haven't already and see if the dice favor you. (They might get a drink with someone else, but it'll still be a bar setting.)