#generator ships

[aroaceleovaldez]

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.

[swan2swan]

Whoever conceived and animated this moment, I hope they're doing well and thriving. This is S-rank romance stuff here.

[crypto28ro]

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[indigonite]

There’s a lot you can learn about it, trust me

[mesopelagos]

DON'T TOUCH THAT DIAL! IT'S TIME FOR-- REAL DRAMA!! REAL ACTION!! REAL BLOODSHED!!

[dailymothanon]

hear me out

Thundercracker x Soundwave x Skyfire

Absolute cinema I need 14 more of this immediately… tho I wasn’t sure how to go about this so I just did a buncha drabbles to see where it’d go 🫡 but . I actually have thought about this pairing before cuz. The wife loves TC and Jetfire, I love Soundwave, it’s only very wise to imagine the peak of combining our favs 😌 just three gals that are honestly tired Always like. These three are always putting up with a lot and are too patient at times 💔💔

[spirkbitch]

differences i’ve noticed between TOS and TNG

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

sorry starscream

[zorangezest]

skids in at 10000 kilometers and collapses in front of you

[0wldn0]

I miss drawing my Earthspark AU but I wanted to redraw this hug first 🥺💕

[finnstati0n]

[ohmygawditssunnyout]

[umblrspectrum]

i love learning cursive just to write text for exactly one character

[palecartoon]

Me when two characters are so obviously gay but are somehow not canon

[cozylittleartblog]

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!