Snowflake Challenge #3

[elliebird]

Challenge #3

Put some favorite characters into an AU, fuse some favorite canons together, talk about your favorite AU/fusion tropes, or tell us why AU/fusions aren’t your cup of tea.

I love a good high school or college AU. One of my favorite fics ever is from Generation Kill, a show I know NOTHING about. It's s 90s hs AU that felt like it was written for me, with the most epic sexual tension, silly high school drama/misunderstandings and a brilliantly satisfying payoff. I still remember reading it for the 1st time. 50k of besties being stupidly codependent and falling for each other (my actual kryptonite) with the angst that comes with being a teenager and realizing you're not as straight as you thought.

I have written only a handful of stories breaking 20k and that was at least 6-7 years ago. Three of them were college AUs. I would love to find the inspiration/motivation to write long like that again.

I have 2 that I especially want to write.

I want to write 50k (hah I'm dreaming) of Luke and Alex (Julie and the Phantoms) in the 90s. I just want to go to town on all of the tropes, write thousands of words of them just being soft for one another while navigating high school in '95 (same time I was in high school omg) and falling hard for each other.

And I want to write a non-famous 5SOS AU of the guys all living in LA after college, Calum and Ashton being besties and then all the porn happening.

What can I say, I'm a simple girl with simple tastes. I just like to write about besties being stupid for each other.