An AU story based around minor OCs from an AU of an AU of an AU that has since been thoroughly jossed!
You broke my brain.
I've seen AUs of AUs, but not 3rd-gen AUs, and not minor characters of those taken into their own AU. I WANT EXAMPLES.
Um. And I clicked "fanfic" on almost everything, and left a couple blank 'cos I'd have to think of it as case-by-case decisions (which means it'd be impossible to make a policy about it those).
I don't want AO3 to host "original fic." But I can't think of any way to phrase a "no original fic" policy that doesn't exclude some types of fanfic. You left out the various gamerfic categories... story of our party of adventurers in a published dungeon-crawl module? Story of the adventurers' time between adventures? AU story where characters that were written up but never actually played have adventures not actually possible in that gaming system, but using some elements of the gameworld? (It's like OC historical fic, only in a non-historical setting. How far from the published details is it allowed to get before it stops being fanficcish and becomes an original setting?)
I don't want someone making those judgment calls. Don't want anyone at AO3 having to decide, "gee, is this *really* some kind of fanfic, or is it original fic?" (And let's not think of how this nightmare connects to fanart, okay? How do you tell the difference between a picture of an OFC exchange student on her way to Hogwarts and one who's "just" an original-art modern witch on a broom?)
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You broke my brain.
I've seen AUs of AUs, but not 3rd-gen AUs, and not minor characters of those taken into their own AU. I WANT EXAMPLES.
Um. And I clicked "fanfic" on almost everything, and left a couple blank 'cos I'd have to think of it as case-by-case decisions (which means it'd be impossible to make a policy about it those).
I don't want AO3 to host "original fic." But I can't think of any way to phrase a "no original fic" policy that doesn't exclude some types of fanfic. You left out the various gamerfic categories... story of our party of adventurers in a published dungeon-crawl module? Story of the adventurers' time between adventures? AU story where characters that were written up but never actually played have adventures not actually possible in that gaming system, but using some elements of the gameworld? (It's like OC historical fic, only in a non-historical setting. How far from the published details is it allowed to get before it stops being fanficcish and becomes an original setting?)
I don't want someone making those judgment calls. Don't want anyone at AO3 having to decide, "gee, is this *really* some kind of fanfic, or is it original fic?" (And let's not think of how this nightmare connects to fanart, okay? How do you tell the difference between a picture of an OFC exchange student on her way to Hogwarts and one who's "just" an original-art modern witch on a broom?)