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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.
#fandom#fandom infrastructure#fandom history#was working on the ship polls blog and the comments i get there often reminded me of this#every once in a while i've gotta reacquaint myself with the xkcd expert familiarity comic principle#and the general knowledge that people dont explain the basics of fandom anymore so people have to learn it on their own#while everybody just expects them to know it and that's not fair to them!#i will also put my usual thing: folks are always welcome to ask me anything about fandom stuff#it can be specific pjo fandom stuff or general pan-fandom stuff#i have been in fandom for a long time and i am happy to explain things#legitimately if anyone ever has questions about even the most basic of fandom stuff. go for it. i love talking about it
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is that piece of media actually bad, or is it just not following the blueprint you projected onto it? is that work actually not good, or are you just demanding something from it that is absolutely antithetical to its themes, genre, tone, and narrative goal? is that story actually poorly written, or do you just dislike that it is not the specific things you wanted from it that it never set out to be, never was, and never is going to become? is it actually bad, or is it actually well-executed and you just dislike the story it chose to be because it isn't catering to your specific desires and expectations?
#This was prompted by a specific thing but it is also about dozens and dozens of things#Former Prime Queue-sector of the Trust#ETA: Everyone going “XYZ is actually bad” like congratulations I wasn't saying stuff can't be bad.#I was saying that you should ask yourself these questions first bc sometimes it's just not to your sensibility.#ETA 2: now that it's been months and this is going around again while certain conversations happen in other fandoms I'm in#It's good to clarify what specifically set off this post even tho it applies to many things. But this was about someone#saying Midst is thematically and narratively incoherent bc it wasn't “everyone is miserable forever and nobody gets better” like they wante
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Telemachus, crying that he finally gets to meet his dad: “For twenty years, I never could outgrow you”
Odysseus, the short king, also crying: son, you are several inches taller then I am
#he definitely says it while in tears tho#we love our short king#Telemachus: stop giving literal answers to rhetorical questions!#i can’t help but wonder#the ithaca saga#epic the musical#epic#epic fandom#epicthemusical#odysseus#epic musical#odyssey#epic odysseus#epic the ithaca saga#odysseus of ithaca#epic telemachus#telemachus#telemachus of ithaca#who else had this thought
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i made a character uquiz. i 100% promise you that you will get a character you know AND like
#that's my guarentee#ignore the quiz description#features some of my favourite characters. eg. ianthe tridentarius. jaws. sonny!dog day afternoon. nicolas cage. kendall roy. hope this help#im not going to tag every fandom that's rude#uquiz#quiz#personality quiz#mine#i don't know why i put the sport question i hate the sport question.#wasted like half a day asking stupid questions like 'do we think vriska serqet would prefer football or hockey'
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We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.
#polls#incognito polls#anonymous#tumblr polls#tumblr users#questions#polls about interests#submitted feb 1#polls about the internet#ai#fanfic#fanfiction#fandom
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So
How about my version of human Bill?
It’s for an au where he actually goes through therapy and gets reborn into a human.
The most normal and regular human Bill whose name isn’t even Bill anymore!
Im gonna start working on a comic soon if people get interested in this hahaha

Twink
#my art#gravity falls#gravity falls bill#gravity falls fandom#gravity falls au#gravity falls art#human bill cipher#bill cipher#gravity falls fanart#gravity falls fan comic in question
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selling authentic ldr eclipse autograph 100% legit trust me bro just DM me
LDR AU by @spadillelicious go read the fic please please pleasepleaseplease
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#haha hi how are you guys doing#it's been a while#like a few weeks#a few months? ha#oops my bad#i'm back in internship hell#getting questionnable results#throwing away expensive products because fungi grew in said expensive product#despite everything the ldr worms still going strong over here#oh LDR eclipse#how i love you#i gave him my fake aaah leather jacket and chunky boots#they make for GREAT refs#who knew you could make your own refs using your own stuff#that's crazy#BY THE WAY#genuine question for the people reading this#do you want to see the bajillion LDR magma doodles i have in stock? /gq#anyways#i hope you all are doing great :)#dca fandom#fnaf security breach#fnaf dca#fnaf daycare attendant#ldr#love death and rollerskates#dca fanart#dca au#dca x reader#my art
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first time drawing the Biblically Accurate Boys TM was a few days ago and i just forgot to post them so here you go
#literally like the first thing i've drawn and colored and put actually effort into in like weeks#creativity is not liking me rn#xandraws#fnaf#fnaf sb#fnaf security breach#security breach#fnaf sun#sun fnaf#fnaf moon#moon fnaf#dca sun#sun dca#dca moon#moon dca#fnaf dca#dca fnaf#dca fandom#does this go in that tag because they're biblically accurate or. question mark. is fine whatever i'm proud of these so throws them at you
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Columbo and the Knight (1984)
put me in the universe where Columbo ran through the 1980s and had a crossover episode with Knight Rider. I think they deserved it, and I am not just saying that because they're my two favorite Old Shows. @telebeast wrote a little fanfic blurb about it and I HAD to visualize it into a comic (which is also the longest comic I have finished thus far at five pages...), so writing credit goes to them.
Autism W!
#columbo#knight rider#art#michael knight#kitt#comic#highlight reel#crossover#telebeast#there are two small easter eggs here. can you find them. they were somehow not Entirely lost when i resized these for the public#this is what i mean when i say I Draw And It's Everyone Else's Problem. look at my INCREDIBLY niche crossover comic boy#if the knight rider fandom has like 12 people in it. how many of y'all have seen columbo#this comic is for like 4 people and me and phoenix are already two of them#niche is my specialty lets be real. weird niche obscure shit and ships nobody's paid attention to yet#not to suggest this is ship art. columbo has his wife and michael has his car lmfao#stylizing real people is EXTREMELY hard btw sorry for when they get off model. its partly a 'better imperfect than never finished' situatio#cant tell you how much i redrew some of these panels. weeps#this took me 2 weeks but i think i thumbnailed it all in may and the ideas been rollin around in my head since march#is anybody good at editing. please edit michael and columbo into an image together like its a screenshot. NOT generated. edited.#it would be so cool#ive drawn columbo a lot but i haven't drawn a lot of michaels. i was learning things about his outfit AS I WAS DOING THE DAMN#COLORS ON THIS. all the lines done. it was too late to change anything. i did all the lines and colored page by page#i realized my mistakes on like page 3. 1 and 2 were already done. it was Too Late.#imagine it though. them working a case together. switching between the more serious tone of columbo vs the goofier#action antics of michael and kitt. columbo being so impressed by Modern Technology. there's more i could say but phoenix may write#more of this crossover and i don't want to spoil it :'3#there's opportunity here though i swear. there's gold to be dug.#i like how kitt gets shading but columbo's junker peugeot doesn't. kitt looked wrong without any. columbo's car is matte and dirty#i also applied effects to this to make it look a little film-grainy and VHS like. some CRT TV vibes#the only question left is. did they put knight rider into columbo; or columbo into knight rider 🤔
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tommy kinard's outfit formulas (insp)
#tommy kinard#bucktommy#lou ferrigno jr#911edit#911#911 abc#*#tusersonny#usernicolo#userkayla#usernewbs#maxtracks#tusercole#loafrunners#useralien#singinprincess#userbuckleys#fourteenthofaugust#tuseruta#usercats#userarrow#usersoph1#uservik#tusersaf#userkit#userange#tommykinardedit#new fandom question dropped: how many pairs of jeans does this man own
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Deep/Fun Questions to Ask!
Do you like watching sunsets?
Have you ever started a rumor?
What makes you laugh hard?
What's the last concert you went to?
If you believed in it, what would you be reincarnated to?
What's your current vocal stim?
What shirt are you wearing?
Who or what is on your mind?
What are your favorite pair of shoes?
What would easily win you over if someone gave you it?
What three words describe you?
What's a funny memory you have?
Do you have any drunk stories?
What's one thing you own that you're sure no one else has?
Do you have any superstitions?
What is your guilty pleasure?
What weird thing do you do when you're alone?
What is the worst food you've ever had?
What fictional character would you bring to life if you could?
If you could join a career immediately, what would it be?
What keeps you going during the day?
Current song on repeat?
Funniest inside joke?
What's your favorite piece of jewelry you own?
Favorite niche topic?
What fandom are you currently in?
Most controversial take?
Favorite ship and why?
Do you have any piercings or tattoos, and what are they?
What is your worst & best quality?
#send asks#asks#inbox open#send me shit#ask me shit#art#aesthetic#fandom#fanfiction#writing#wattpad#ao3#community#lgbt#lgbtq community#queer#tyler joseph#josh dun#funny#questions#opinions#just curious#sherlock holmes#john watson#johnlock#shipping#ship#supernatural#dean winchester#twenty one pilots
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Fandom OC Ask Meme
⟢⋱⟡☾ a collection of asks for OCs belonging to specific fandoms
How does (canon character) feel about your OC?
How does your OC feel about (canon character)?
Has your OC ever made (canon character) laugh? / What about cry?
Do your OC and (canon character) ever cross paths?
Which canon character annoys your OC?
What canon character gets annoyed by your OC?
Which canon character respects your OC most? What gained that respect?
Which canon character doesn’t respect your OC whatsoever?
Which canon character does your OC respect a lot?
Which canon character does your OC not respect at all? Why?
Which canon character is pissed off by the general presence of OC? (we all have those people)
Does your OC have a crush on anyone?
Who would probably have a crush on your OC?
Who would your OC most likely to get a puppy-crush on? (but it can’t be the cc they’re actually shipped with!)
Who would your OC say is their best friend?
Who would call your OC their best friend?
Who has brought your OC to tears before?
Who has your OC made cry?
Is there someone your OC didn’t like at first, but then got along with later?
Is there someone your OC liked at first, but then grew to dislike?
Who does your OC hate?
Who does your OC love? (platonic)
Who does your OC love? (familial)
Does your OC love anyone? (romantic)
Has your OC ever had to let a canon character down easy?
Has your OC ever been rejected by a canon character?
Did your OC bear witness to anyone’s full character arc?
What is the worst thing your OC does in their story?
What is your OC’s ‘‘darkness moment’’ in the plot?
What is your OC’s redemption moment?
Is there a canon character that your OC needs to ask forgiveness towards?
Is there a canon character your OC needs to forgive?
Is there anyone who your OC would die for?
Is there a canon character who would die for your OC?
#(( I couldn’t find that this existed so I made one myself ))#fandom ask#fandom ask meme#oc#fandom oc#fandom oc ask#fandom oc ask meme#oc ask#oc ask meme#oc ask game#fandom oc game#ask meme#ask game#ask#prompts#oc prompts#oc ask prompts#oc questions
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Happy Obey M3! announcement day everybody.
Some silly ideas for you:
Newlywed Mammon, Leviathan, Asmodeus, Beelzebub, and Belphegor might be so excited to carry you over the threshold into your new home that they accidentally bonk your head against the door frame.
If you marry any of his brothers, Belphegor will get upset and leave the reception. You'll find him fast asleep in your marital bed at night once the wedding is over.
Leviathan reading his vows and you hear the Ruri Tunes notification sound from his suit pocket.
MC enters into a timeshare style marriage where every 52.1428571429 days (they count it to the second) they divorce one brother and marry the next in line. It's only fair.
Asmodeus spending hours practicing his walk down the aisle. It's the most important day of his life. He has at least 5 different outfit changes planned for the duration of the wedding, but he won't let you see what any of them are until he wears them at the ceremony.
Satan lowkey considers the wedding to double as a celebration for finally beating Lucifer, despite trying his best to only focus on you. He gets a little irked when Lucifer actually gives a heartfelt speech. You can tell because he squeezes your hand really tightly.
Mammon disappears for a while before the wedding. Everyone claims he got cold feet and tells you to move on. He's actually working back to back to back jobs to afford the biggest wedding bash the Devildom's ever seen.
Marrying Lucifer and moving into a new house where his brothers come loiter all day anyway. It's like you're all still housemates, except Lucifer is constantly irritated about his brothers practically living on your couch.
Beelzebub cuts the first slice of cake with you and the slice is bigger than your torso. He relishes that wedding cake as the best thing he'll ever eat in his long life.
Everyone constantly clinking their champagne glasses to try and drunkenly one-up the others' speeches.
Devil's food cake wedding cake.
#the important question is. do we get newlywed barbatos.#obey me#obey me!#omswd#obey me shall we date#obey me scenarios#obey me swd#obey me x mc#obey me headcanon#obey me fandom#obey me ideas#obey me x you#obey m3#obey me brothers
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big news! not only do we now have the sequel to “anyhermit”, but Joe just said on stream that he got the idea from his daughter watching my little pony and realising he can replace words with “hermits”… so this is quite literally inspired by “everypony”
#the gentlehermits in question were etho and xb#going insane over this he really saw “everypony” and went. i should steal that#hermitcraft#joe hills#locus fandom time
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Trapped in a vicious cycle of pining? Try gay sex! (More things to learn over at Tiger Tiger!)
#tiger tiger#jamis arlesi#remy bonnaire#Arno#through a series of unfortunate events I will be posting this after the update will be out so my timing will be more so:#“Alternate take on how that scene played out” Rather than my funnier “My prediction for how it will go down”#I truly think Remy would rather admit to crimes he didn't commit than confess he has a thing for men.#It would be funny! It would be so funny if this is how Jamis found out. Alas...Not yet...Not yet...#I do love the idea that Jamis completely overlooked the all the elder god horror to get right down to the question of 'HOW DO YOU KNOW HIM'#Remy knows him. Knows him carnally. Wouldn't you like to also know your captain better? In spirit and body and mind?#Jealousy looks good on Jamis. Now he just has to do something about it.#Poor Remy though...He love Jamis so much he'd do anything to prevent losing him.#Which entails never giving Jamis a chance of rejecting or accepting his feelings!#Meanwhile...Jamis is a bisexual disaster man who is at his *limit*.#(For the MDZS fans looking at this Tigers comic who still have no context:#This is like Lan Xichen finding out Jin Guangyao hooked up with Nie Mingjue after LXC spent all that time thinking JGY was straight.#Better yet. This is like WWX just starting to realize his crush on LWJ and then finding out he and JC hooked up in the time skip.#'Nice to know you're into men but why did I have to find out like this' moment.)#((Yes I am trying to bridge the gap between the fandoms I am in. Yes I am still on my propaganda train. Choo Choo!!!))
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