Can I lure you to a fic exchange?

[rachelmanija]

I'd like to lure more people into participating in the AU Exchange, for alternate universes!

Both canon divergence (What if Narnia isn't destroyed after Calormen wins? What if different characters survive the plague in The Stand?) and actual alternate universes (what if Edward II's Isabella had a dragon? What if the Jeeves & Bertie Wooster stories were set in space?) These are all actual tags, by the way.

You can select from available fandoms and types of alternate universes here in the tagset - the types of alternate universes are under "freeforms," sorted by ones specific to certain fandoms and ones that can be applied to any, labeled "ALL." So, for instance, you select Heian Jidai | Heian Period RPF as your fandom, Murasaki Shikibu/Sei Shonagon as your characters, and ALL: Noir AU or ALL: Character(s) forced into circus run by evil being as your AU. And so forth.

These are all also actual tags, by the way.

Here are a few intriguing alternate universe tags which you can request someone to write for you, or offer to write yourself:

ALL: Amateur theatre group AU

ALL: Character plays a game with Death in exchange for their/somebody else's life

ALL: Characters are soulbonded to psychic wolves

ALL: Characters Have Or Acquire Fire Lizards

ALL: Cosmic Horror/Eldritch Abomination AU

ALL: Cube (1997) Fusion

ALL: Dimension hopping to find a timeline that isn't doomed

ALL: Dinosaurs & Tropical-Type Climate & Flora Survived to Canon Time Period
ALL: Megafauna Survived To Canon Time Period

ALL: Everything is the Same but one Character is a Kitten

ALL: Everyone wakes up amnesiac
ALL: Everyone wakes up amnesiac on a spaceship

ALL: Finisterre (Cherryh Night Horses) Fusion

ALL: Female characters are the major players

ALL: Fuck/Marry/Kill Is Sometimes Magically Binding

ALL: Good Character Meets Their Evil Counterpart From Another Dimension (or Vice Versa)

ALL: Groundhog Day timeloop

ALL: Groundhog Peggy Sue
ALL: Possessed by time travelling future self

ALL: Magical Horticulturalists

ALL: Power Swap

ALL: Snowed in at a Haunted Hotel

ALL: Soulmate or 1000 Roaches AU (Context.)

ALL: Tethered (Us) AU

ALL: The Belles (Dhonielle Clayton) Fusion

ALL: With the right postage you can send letters anywhere anywhen

Dragonriders of Pern: Canon Dragon Colors Have Different Cultural Meanings

Dragonriders of Pern: Dragons Have Different Colors With Different Cultural Meanings

Marvel Comics: (Non-Empath) Hellions Join the New Mutants

Marvel Comics: Different Characters Trapped In Limbo

What tags are calling to you?

Comments

[larryhammer]

Hmm. The tags that are calling me aren't in the tagset:

ALL: All marriages are soderetu

ALL: Gethan AU (all adults have a kemmer-somer cycle)

Yeah, apparently I'm really into a Le Guin headspace right now. I'm surprised I don't want ALL: Valley of the Kesh AU.

(Double-hmm: How would the Kesh handle the pandemic?)

[sheliak]

You can still add those in, as noms have reopened!

(There is already All: Sedoretu.)

[larryhammer]

Huh! I didn't find it when I searched.

Hmm ......

[yhlee]

Oh man, I wish I hadn't missed nominations...maybe next time.

[sheliak]

Nominations are in fact open again! It's a little confusing, but I think you can still get things in.

[yhlee]

Ah, thank you! I've thrown in a couple noms and am waiting to see if they make it in. :)

[grayswandir]

I clicked on the "Soulmate or 1000 Roaches AU" link and oh my god. I hope this AU is now being written as it deserves to be written, by everyone who participated in that thread. "A millihelen is a face that launches one ship." XDDDDD

[rachelmanija]

New soulmate AU: your chances of finding your soulmate are determined by how many roaches you're willing to face for them.

[rachelmanija]

BUT I WOULD SEE 500 ROACHES
AND I WOULD SEE 500 MORE
JUST TO BE THE MAN WHO SAW A THOUSAND ROACHES
RIGHT OUTSIDE YOUR DOOR-OR-OOORRRRRR!

[grayswandir]

Right? I'm never going to unhear that now!

[isis]

*dies*

[isis]

TBH I can't really think of anything I'd want to request, but I'll keep an eye on PHs and (like last time) I'll gleefully read the collection.

[silverflight8]

The freeform tags...everything in there is made of stars...*_*

[minoanmiss]

I am already there milady!

[havocthecat]

Oh, hey, I could maybe do this.

I do this a lot already.

Let me look at these and also gauge my energy levels.