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I have a bad case of fic!rage at the moment.
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.
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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It's not so much the grammar/writing of it that's killing me, really. It's the destruction of everything that I love about the characters and their relationship. It's the ludicrous, implausible and out of character way that the idea was executed. It's how there's never any explanation of why a character is doing something that really, really demands an explanation.
I just...damn, I might end up doing this anyway.
Oh, that and it got seventeen comments requesting more. And people wonder why I doubt the quality of my writing when everyone just comments that they love it?
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