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watching spiderverse makes me never wanna see another live action movie ever again like. why did we ever start making comic books into live action movies?? make it animated to explore the art form instead of trying to make it hyper realistic you fucking cowards
staff You are recommending that I follow a nazi blog I blocked last night. Your site promotes anti-semitism to Jews. Your site shoves Nazi Swastikas in the faces of Jews. It’s bad enough that the Nazi blogs seem to be sprouting up like weeds on a site that claims to have an anti-hate policy, but to actively promote them to people who have taken the steps of blocking these blogs is beyond the pale. Clean this place up. It’s turning into Stormfront.
I encourage everyone who sees this post, Jewish or otherwise, to reblog it. Tumblr has been ignoring the growth of Nazism on this site for too long. It needs to end.
Fandom AUs in ascending order of canon compliance:
Some of the names are the same, I guess?
Compliant characters, divergent setting
Compliant setting, divergent characters
Plausible within established canon, save that it didn’t actually happen
You can’t prove this isn’t how these characters spend their free time
At what point does something stop being an AU and start just being fanfic (or, failing the whole story being written, a prompt for same)? Like, using this as an example I’m inclined to say that 4 and 5 fail to qualify but I can’t say that with authority.
Number four is the “plausible in principle but mutually exclusive of canon events in practice” category.
The distinction between number five and just regular fanfic is narrow, and hinges largely on what sort of textual acrobatics you’re willing to do in order to avoid tripping over established canon. Imagine, say, writing a story where Elizabeth Bennet is secretly a costumed vigilante, taking great care to incorporate and work around the events of Pride and Prejudice such that every textually supported objection to the premise is readily accounted for and it’s completely believable that the subject just never came up. It’s an AU in the sense that we can be reasonably certain Elizabeth is not, in fact, pulling a Scarlet Pimpernel in the original novel, but you can’t prove it.
