Semimonthly Discussion Post #2

[deadfinch]

Welcome to thelockedtomb's semimonthly discussion post. I'm currently posting a new entry every other Friday. This community's norms are still in flux; let me know if you feel like this was too late, too soon, or just the right amount of time after the last entry.

In the spirit of synergizing with TLT Monthly, this post's totally optional topic will be alternate universes. The definition of AU is as expansive as possible, including total-setting-change AUs (e.g., how would the characters' roles in the story map if we were to place them in a modern-day Catholic school?), canon divergence AUs (e.g., what would have happened if Harrow really had taken Ortus to Canann House instead of Gideon?), and everything in-between. (Topics are still a pilot idea, and we may or may not continue with them depending on feedback and engagement. Feel free to submit topic ideas to me here.)

As always, you can also just talk about whatever you want.

There is currently no policy regarding spoilers or content warnings.

Comments

[themorikelife]

One of my favorite Alternate Universes for TLT are Modern AUs. Give me a College/University AU featuring Griddlehark and 50k+ words and I will devour it slowly throughout a week. Bonus points if it's got one or both of those delightful Enemies to Lovers or Angst tags attached to it. Because of these Modern AUs, I learned a few things about myself: (1) I better understand people's attraction to romance novels, and (2) I may have engaged more with fandom earlier in my life if I had discovered femslash.

Has anyone else had a similar experience, either with TLT or another fandom, where reading fanfiction helped you understand an aspect of original fiction or why people might enjoy one genre over another?