#au bs

[rockshipshamezone]

commission for meowgon! hagumi but........homestuck

[rockshipshamezone]

been talkin about some REALLY gratuitous gently furry cyberpunk au jaspidot horseshit w @zombine

[rockshipshamezone]

more late night au scribble bullshit

peridot summoned these two shitty demons at the same time to exploit a soul ownership loophole. she’s very pleased with herself and they’re not

[rockshipshamezone]

orc jasper bc i guess im holding like 50 AUs at any given time 

she got her nose melted off by dragon venom. gross

[polypomefiore]

hello knight sebek x prostitute epel anyone

[rowanisawriter]

a shop talk question (belated): when you're thinking about AUs, how grounded in the source material do you want them to be? how do you feel about the differences between the alternate universe and teh original--like, is there a "too far" beyond which it doesn't feel like what you're trying to capture anymore? I have been thinking some about this lately and am interested to hear your thoughts!

hi bestie thank you for giving me the opportunity to rant about AUs… stepping onto my podium now 🎤

so to me personally i like AU that’s still on rails. obvs you can do whatever you want forever (and i will read it 🫵) but my favorite AUs are the ones that hold onto imo the most critical aspect of what the source is: the essence of the character. this needs to carry across into the AU, even though the setting and circumstances are different.

“too far” to me is when the thing that makes the character interesting in the first place isn’t carried into the AU, for example zagreus always needs to be running from himself, escaping the confines of his family, butting heads with his father, etc because that’s who he is, when you insert him into a universe where he isn’t trying to “escape” and expand his narrow existence then who is he? he’s like an oc at that point🧍

basically i love AU because i love putting characters into every situation possible so if the characters aren’t themselves anymore then it’s not interesting to me lol

[rowanisawriter]

Hullo :3

For the talk ask... How do you come with ideas from AU and what's your process to fit characters and themes in the new setting? Does it come naturally or do you need much planning ahead?

hi bestie thank you!!

my process is, i imagine a Situation, let me check ao3 and see if i can read this, usually i cannot, so i have to write it 😭

seriously though i will usually get an idea from art or something im reading, and if i can fit the characters into it in a way that follows the canon as closely as possible, i will do that lol. i love AU but i reaaaaallllly love when the canon fits into it neatly, like in my hades biblical AU it fit neatly that zagreus takes lucifer’s place and hades takes god’s place, and other details just fall into place after that. like with all my fics i try not to plan too much and just write and see what happens, otherwise my brain will be tricked that outlining/planning is the writing and i won’t do it 😭 its a chaotic mess but it ends up working out lol

[rowanisawriter]

anyway i’m going back to the dark scary forest now (mass effect detective AU wip i suddenly remembered i was writing once and am now determined to complete at all costs)