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i had a thought of "do people not know what AUs are anymore?" and then i remembered nobody explains fandom stuff to new people anymore so it is entirely plausible people genuinely don't know what AUs are and nobody has explained it to them, so for today's lucky 10,000:

"AU" stands for "Alternate Universe" or "Alternative Universe" (same difference) and is basically any thought scenario for a fandom that isn't canon and can't fit within the canon universe. If it takes place in the canon universe but something is notably different, that is typically what's known as a "Canon divergent AU," because it diverges from canon.

an AU can be absolutely anything. There's a couple of widespread pan-fandom au scenarios that often get thrown around, like coffee shop aus, genderbend aus, hanahaki aus (hanahaki is a whole thing in itself i'd recommend researching on your own), etc. One you might hear sometimes is "crossover AU" which is when you have characters from one fandom interacting with characters from another.

You can have as many aus as you want. They can be whatever you want and you can do whatever you want in them. It's a sandbox for you to play around in and explore how things would be different or how the characters would act in those circumstances or environments. Maybe they have different relationships with each other. Maybe they behave slightly differently. Or you can just say "Okay, [x] is true. How did they get here? How would things have to be different for this to occur?" which can also be fun.

If you are ever confused about why people ship something that seems completely out of the blue or doesn't make sense to you in the canon setting, there's a good chance they like it in an AU setting! Not everything everybody is interacting with is necessarily the canon! Not everybody wants things to exist in canon and just want to explore playing dolls in a different sandbox and that's okay. And their sandbox might look a lot different than yours, and that's also okay. You have the freedom to make your sandbox whatever you please. Do whatever you want forever. Get funky with it. AUs are fun.

Okay that's my schpeal. everybody go have fun and play nice now.

swordvan mammals........ cw implication of miscarriage

It's ok guys he's fine--

This art made me feel nostalgic for me

lalala lets all skip around and hold hands

Therapist: How's work going?

Me:

animated one of my favorite vines ❤️

Day 205 - 🌒

tavros and yiffy r friends :D

I felt like this one deserved it's own post

Mage of Blood = Understand (with/through) Blood (bonds)

To me Harry is a leader like his father, but he can be very self centered. Blood is related to bonds and i feel like that's something Harry needs to learn about. To comprehend the stakes of being on the center of the stage with everyone depending on you to save the play. Also, him being a mage comes from his mother and all her wizardy vibes.

Maid of Light = Heals, creates and (re)generates (with/through) Light (Knowledge)

Light is knowledge. I see fit for Vriska's descendant to be a healer born and raised in a peacefull world, being kind of an oposite to her, mirroring what she could've been had the world not required her to be ruthless to survive. It can also be a learning oportunity for Vrissy, who wants to be cool and badass like Vriska, but her power is centered on creating and helping instead of stealing and destroying like her

Having the same class as Aradia, who killed Vriska, and The Dolorosa/Porrim who Mindfanf/Aranea, her ancestor got killed, also reflects this. Serkets and maids don't go well. But this one does, this one will brake the cycle

I also really like keeping the aspects as a family thing that get's passed on with trolls

Thief of Time = Redistributes (with/through) Time for Own benefit

This girl is done. She was made in secret, has been hidden, pushed away like an inconvenience, sent to live far from everything, used as a hostage at a war made by all this people who are suposed to be important and are suposed to be her family but that she doesn't know. She doesn't care. She's ask for her life back but who knows how much of it she can consider hers. She just wan't her time back. The time this gods took from her. And she's going to take it one way or another.

I also love the pattern of time players being always red(ish) and space players always being green

Heir of Rage = Invites change, control and manipulation of/in/with/through Rage.

If someone deserves to explode is Tavros Crocker. Like a joke from the universe, the off brand John is a heir like his brother, but not a heir of freedom, no, the total oposite actually. He inherited something worst and he's about to use it to full buldose everything in front of him.

I think it's also cool that Hope and Rage are oposite aspects and he has Gamzee's aspect, and oposite to his dad's. Kinda reflecting all the messed up dinamig going on at his home

So basically, Harry and Vrissy will learn about responsability and help others and Ruby and Tavros will fucking obliterate the planet