Cannon Alternatives (with Happy Ever Afters)
I haven’t watched a single minute of the Crisis Crossover, but after scrolling through my timeline I’m still depressed and a little sick to my stomach, so I can only imagine what everyone who has been watching this season feel.
In the spirit of cheering us Olicity fans up, I’m plugging Cannon Alternative Fanfiction.
AKA Cannon Divergent Fanfiction/stories (preferably long multichapters) that are true to cannon up to a specific point and then diverge and give us the Happy Ever After we all deserve.
This fandom is lucky to have a gluttony of Beautifully written AUs, but only a small portion of them fall into this category.
This is my all-time favorite type of Fanfiction and the reason I came to Fanficiton in the first place so it really isn’t surprising that almost all my fics fall into this category (the only story I’ve written that is fully AU is To Sacrifice the Sun.)
So here’s my Shameless plug part of this post with a list of my own Cannon Alternatives:
1. Found- branches off from cannon at 3x9/3x10 (complete and I have a sequel started)
2. Of Redemption and Inebriation/ Locksley verse- branches off after 4x23(complete)
3. (Don’t) Let Me Go- overlaps 5x20-5x23 and then diverges (complete)
4. It’s in The Air- branches off during holiday party of 5x9 (completely written but being edited and updated every Sunday.
5. Another Kind of Island- branches off after 2x23 (I’m reluctant to add this because it’s so not complete but its is a cannon alternative)
And so this isn’t ALL about me, some of my favorites (I guess that is still about me ;-/) Cannon Alternative Fanfictions:
1. Forever is Composed of Nows @dust2dust34 @so-caffeinated - definitely the most famous of Olicity Cannon Alternatives, probably because its one of the best written and the most complete Universe if you want immerse yourself in a life Oliver and Felicity deserve.
2. Infinite Love Universe- @realityisoverrated-fic I’m adding this because I really think it’s incredibly well written long term Universe that falls nicely into this category. But I’ll warn you it’s not really Olicity, It’s Smoking Billionaires, but no one has ever done a closed triad better and it’s beautiful.
3. Devil’s Backbone- @anthfan by Anthfan- is a sexy alternative to season 3 and it haunts me. Probably inspired DLMG
4. little wonders (twists and turns of fate) @alexiablackbriar13 diverges between season 4 and 5 with the 5x20 flashback and deserves a large part of the credit for getting me back into Olicity this fall and allowing Air to be posted.
PLEASE add your own Cannon Alternative favorites to this list to help us all survive this month!
snowghoul
jbbartram-illu
theartofmadeline
2087
dededos
germansingergirl
kianamaiart
titsay
