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starting a collection of my favourite AO3 author’s notes

honourable mentions

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i had a thought of "do people not know what AUs are anymore?" and then i remembered nobody explains fandom stuff to new people anymore so it is entirely plausible people genuinely don't know what AUs are and nobody has explained it to them, so for today's lucky 10,000:

"AU" stands for "Alternate Universe" or "Alternative Universe" (same difference) and is basically any thought scenario for a fandom that isn't canon and can't fit within the canon universe. If it takes place in the canon universe but something is notably different, that is typically what's known as a "Canon divergent AU," because it diverges from canon.

an AU can be absolutely anything. There's a couple of widespread pan-fandom au scenarios that often get thrown around, like coffee shop aus, genderbend aus, hanahaki aus (hanahaki is a whole thing in itself i'd recommend researching on your own), etc. One you might hear sometimes is "crossover AU" which is when you have characters from one fandom interacting with characters from another.

You can have as many aus as you want. They can be whatever you want and you can do whatever you want in them. It's a sandbox for you to play around in and explore how things would be different or how the characters would act in those circumstances or environments. Maybe they have different relationships with each other. Maybe they behave slightly differently. Or you can just say "Okay, [x] is true. How did they get here? How would things have to be different for this to occur?" which can also be fun.

If you are ever confused about why people ship something that seems completely out of the blue or doesn't make sense to you in the canon setting, there's a good chance they like it in an AU setting! Not everything everybody is interacting with is necessarily the canon! Not everybody wants things to exist in canon and just want to explore playing dolls in a different sandbox and that's okay. And their sandbox might look a lot different than yours, and that's also okay. You have the freedom to make your sandbox whatever you please. Do whatever you want forever. Get funky with it. AUs are fun.

Okay that's my schpeal. everybody go have fun and play nice now.

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MXTX protags my beloved. Prettyboy table for the win

Bonus page:

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old shatterhand really is one of the characters of all time. one of his favorite activities is pretending he's not old shatterhand. he out-mary-sues most mary sues. when he was a teenager his nickname was "sappho". he canonically has pretty hands and doesn't care about the REAL MEN EAT ROCKS NEVER WASH AND ARE GIGANTIC gender norms. when he goes on an adventure he brings glasses and a telescope and a sewing kit (somehow all in his pockets) with him. he is the "we're selling giving you away to some Famous People without asking you! have fun!" trope. also the "goes to a new place and the Coolest Guy Ever immediately falls in love with him" trope. he's literally so in love with his best friend that they canonically don't even have to be in the same place and they'll still act in harmony with each other, and he forgets not everyone can read said friend's mind. also before they actually became friends the other guy tried to kill him many times but that still didn't stop OS from thinking about him lovingly 90% of the time. whenever somebody is making fun of him in a skillful way he goes "i like this guy :)". he pretends to not be himself so often that other people should at this point just assume that if something looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, swims like a duck and smells like a duck, it's probably old shatterhand dressed as a duck. when he was a teen he wrote a poem that was so good all his friends learned it by heart and years later he is still meeting random people who know it somehow. he's the most annoying celebrity ever. he goes to Very Dangerous places to search for cool plants and stones and bugs.

these books have so many many flaws but sometimes i want to study this guy under a microscope like a bug

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Yeees, the loophole!!!

I also did this. Apollo’s forgot about the loophole.

My girl Cassandra deserved a better fate. Let her be one of the Ithacan sisters.

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nothing funnier to me than when AI does math wrong. like I get why it happens, it's a language model that's treating the numbers you feed it as words rather than integers and then giving you an answer based on how those words typically appear in a block of text instead of actually performing a calculation. but the one thing computers are genuinely incredible at. you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did, look at it it's got hallucinations

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old shatterhand really is one of the characters of all time. one of his favorite activities is pretending he's not old shatterhand. he out-mary-sues most mary sues. when he was a teenager his nickname was "sappho". he canonically has pretty hands and doesn't care about the REAL MEN EAT ROCKS NEVER WASH AND ARE GIGANTIC gender norms. when he goes on an adventure he brings glasses and a telescope and a sewing kit (somehow all in his pockets) with him. he is the "we're selling giving you away to some Famous People without asking you! have fun!" trope. also the "goes to a new place and the Coolest Guy Ever immediately falls in love with him" trope. he's literally so in love with his best friend that they canonically don't even have to be in the same place and they'll still act in harmony with each other, and he forgets not everyone can read said friend's mind. also before they actually became friends the other guy tried to kill him many times but that still didn't stop OS from thinking about him lovingly 90% of the time. whenever somebody is making fun of him in a skillful way he goes "i like this guy :)". he pretends to not be himself so often that other people should at this point just assume that if something looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, swims like a duck and smells like a duck, it's probably old shatterhand dressed as a duck. when he was a teen he wrote a poem that was so good all his friends learned it by heart and years later he is still meeting random people who know it somehow. he's the most annoying celebrity ever. he goes to Very Dangerous places to search for cool plants and stones and bugs.

these books have so many many flaws but sometimes i want to study this guy under a microscope like a bug

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I feel so called out right now

Did i just smell someone who didn't get 8 hours of sleep last night?

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Please expand on this. What actually happened

Manwhore!AU AU

Odysseus: *Rolling to seduce Zeus* Eurylochus: *Slowly becoming traumatised* Odysseus: *Gets behind Zeus, before drawing his sword and violently stabbing Zeus in the back* I HAVE A WIFE YOU DUMB FUCK! Zeus: AAGH! *Grabs Ody and yeets him towards Calypso's island.* Zeus: *Hunched over* Fuck it. *Picks up Odysseus's ship and gently places it in the port of Ithaca* Penelope: *Suddenly appearing with Telemachus* Where's my husband?! Eurylochus: He stabbed Zeus. Penelope: What? Eurylochus: He stabbed the king of the gods... and got thrown towards an island. *Ten years later* Odysseus: *Appears in the doorway of his palace, red eyed, breathing heavily, and covered in Ichor, making eye contact with Antinous and the other suitors that crawled back in because Eurylochus and his men went with Telemachus* I'm home, Bitch.

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I want happiness in late march too😔😎

Happiness Will Come To You.

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Be honest, everyone reads these like oneshots (unless you are forced to stop by …external factors)

I have read authors notes like this…

Best one shot I've ever read lmao

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Happiness Will Come To You.

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Take 2, please reblog for spread

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Athena: Odysseus are you okay?

Odysseus rested his head on the table, exhausted, partially dehydrated, and blushing. He let out a loud yawn as the two gods invited themselves into his kitchen for a visit.

Odysseus: Penelope and I have been... Reclaiming the missed twenty years together and although I've been wanting this day since trying to return... I am out of energy.

Athena: I'm kind of confused what could you two be doing that is leaving you this drained?

Hermes (exasperated): Athena... they're Hades and Persophone when she returns from her required mom vacations.

Athena (blushing): Oh... Oh! Odysseus you poor human soul!

Odysseus: I'm not complaining, it's just she keeps asking for it and I can't say no to her. Not that I would. I... Love her so much... And how gentle she can be. Usually she's rough, but I don't want to wake our sweet son. You know?

Hermes: Yeah... I remember a summer with so many nymphs... Oh and my kid was sweet to spend time with.

Odysseus: Is it odd I enjoy when she gets on top of me and takes charge?

Hermes: My word, you're going to get a long so well with Hera.

Athena blushed pointing at the sky to stop her father from eavesdropping further.

Athena: I feel like a woman dying of thirst watching another man drown.

Hermes (eating toast): You're a maiden, dear.

Athena: A goddess gets bored and half of the demigods are my siblings.

Odysseus: When has that stopped... Any of you?

Hermes: That's my grandson.

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