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Faye ([personal profile] said_scarlett) wrote2009-01-27 10:46 am
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Confessions of A Grown Up Fan Fic Writer

I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO TELL YOU....

Baw, I'm a sheep.

I also have a confession to make. A fandom confession, not the naughty sexy fun kind. ;)

I have a terrible weakness for band AUs. I don't know why, I can't explain what my fascination is, I just love fic or art involving characters as musicians. I know that these are usually terribly done, and they make no sense, and in most of my fandoms it's a ridiculously stupid idea, but the fact remains.

I don't generally go reading these fics, and I'd never write one to post online, but I liked thinking about who would be in a band together, what sort of music they'd write, would they be famous, what would their albums look like?

I guess it's my 'guilty pleasure' scenario, or something. We all have them.

There was also a time I really dug vampire AUs. I've moved beyond that stage, but in the interest of full disclosure, I felt it bore mentioning.

I was up before 10 AM today. I'm going to shoot for that every morning, if possible. I'm very much trying to adopt an 'early to bed, early to rise' pattern - which is why I seem to drop off the face of the earth around 7 or 8 my time. (Though last night it's because I was cooking then eating dinner, then beginning my pre-bed routine.)

I'm starting to get new calluses in my hand from my new cane. It sits just a little bit differently in my hand then the old one.

[identity profile] attilatehbun.livejournal.com 2009-01-27 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I have a terrible weakness for band AUs


I never really got this, this fandom love of band!au. And then I read one. And it was fantastic, and now I fear I may be hooked. Eeep.

[identity profile] theladyfeylene.livejournal.com 2009-01-27 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
It's so random and bizarre, and yet... I don't know. Bands are sexy.

[identity profile] attilatehbun.livejournal.com 2009-01-27 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, totally. It's just such a weird phenomenon though. :)

[identity profile] theladyfeylene.livejournal.com 2009-01-27 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
It seriously is. I remember browsing FF.net for sporkable summaries, and being boggled at how many band AUs there were, especially for FMA. Though considering this is the fandom that gave us mermaid!stripper!AUs....

[identity profile] attilatehbun.livejournal.com 2009-01-27 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
...

Ok, now I need to find both of those. Holy. Shit.

[identity profile] theladyfeylene.livejournal.com 2009-01-27 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
See, your first mistake is assuming that there is one fic where Ed is a mermaid, and one where he's a stripper.

No.

There is one fic where Ed is a mermaid stripper. Or a stripping mermaid, whatever the proper term is.

[identity profile] attilatehbun.livejournal.com 2009-01-27 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh no no, I got that. I meant that one and the band ones.


Because honestly, the brain-breakage of mermaid stripping is so beautiful, I must have it. It's really not like I need my brain anyway.

[identity profile] theladyfeylene.livejournal.com 2009-01-27 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, okay! Hahaha, yeah, I can dig up the mermaid stripper one pretty easy - it's actually relatively IC, all things considered!

The band ones...any preference? I remember one with vampire!rock star!Envy....

[identity profile] theladyfeylene.livejournal.com 2009-01-27 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Random band AU: Ed is a rockstar of a popular band and Envy is a normal teenager... (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2918795/1/FullmetalAngel) For some reasom, they're all Envy/Ed fics.

The Little Meralchemist (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2878074/1/). I shit you not.

[identity profile] rosehiptea.livejournal.com 2009-01-27 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I feel better now about that meme I did where I had to post ideas for high school AUs based on various fandoms.

I still want to write the Pyramid Head x Maria one.

Though high school AUs may never be good, unless there are good ones I haven't read.

ETA: Actually now that I remember someone was working on one I didn't think was bad. But they did, so they never finished it.
Edited 2009-01-27 19:11 (UTC)

[identity profile] theladyfeylene.livejournal.com 2009-01-27 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Hahah, I've actually read some High School AUs. They can be entertaining!

do it!

I sometimes like to indulge in ridiculous AUs, just for fluff reading. Now I'm kind of tempted to go looking....

[identity profile] chaneystarr.livejournal.com 2009-01-28 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
OKAY FEY I'M GOING TO TRY TO STOP FAILING SO EPICLY NOW!!!

In other words, I FINALLY replied. >.>

[identity profile] chaneystarr.livejournal.com 2009-01-28 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
Also I still randomly have a secret fetish for vampire AU's of various canons. Then again, I also love a lot of vampire canons on their own. But I think my favorite AU setting would be prisoner-verses of some sort. I'm not quite sure where that came from, but it's there all the same. XD