I have a bad case of fic!rage at the moment.

[jaina47]

Do you know what makes a good AU?  It's writing characters in a different situation and showing how those characters would react in different circumstances.

Know what it's not?  It's not putting two unrecognizable people, who have not the slightest, vaguest resemblance to the characters that I know and love, and slapping character names on them and putting them in a completely different situation.  

That's why say, a crossover with Harry Potter can work and something as simple as a character choosing left instead of right can be epic fail.

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[infinitlight.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I love AUs, if they're well done (exception: those sucky everyone's in high school things (althought there was a great Criminal-Minds-in-the-O.C. fic in thelittlebang this year)). Sadly, like, 95% of them suck.

[jaina47.livejournal.com]

I try not to write off a particular type of fic. I figure there's an author out there that can make just about anything work if they're a good enough writer, but high school fic is the one exception to the rule. I have never, ever in any fandom seen a good one.