Time to post about non-school things!

[lea_hazel]

So I was going over a list of fanfic cliches that was linked through the Homestuck Shipping Olympics. It occurred to me to mentally check off which cliches I've written and which I've only read. Of course there's a list of all the stock A/Us, like the canon fork, the high school A/U, alternate selves... and the historical A/U.

There are a lot of common historical A/Us. I think ultimately the Victorian and Regency A/Us, and the semi-related steampunk A/U, reign supreme in most fandoms. Then you get the Western, and sometimes other periods. There are several popular, recurring fanart A/Us in Homestuck fandoms, mainly 50s-stuck and 30s-stuck. I couldn't see myself writing in these historical settings, although I've certainly read the hell out of them. The obvious answer to this conundrum would be to write an A/U out of the history I'm most familiar with which, no matter what anyone says, is not actually more cracktastic than a flapper A/U or Austen-stuck or whatnot.

But that still doesn't mean I'm going to act on the initial instinct. No way am I writing an A/U of the Jewish underground under the British mandate in Palestine in the thirties. Just... no. No matter how adorable certain characters might look in khaki. OMG my brain.