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[re_white]

Reading werewolf AUs is like playing Russian roullette. The gun is loaded with bestiality.

Also! I'm back from Montana. Number of Anti-Choice Signs Seen: four. Number of Cocktails Consumed: six.
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Comments

[dalesql]

I'm probably going to regret asking. But what is a werewolf AU? A werewolf story from austrailia?

[re_white]

A werewolf AU is a genre of fanfiction. AU stands for Alternate Universe, a fanwork in which a element from canon is changed. This can range anywhere from setting to plot point. Example: Tony Stark is a super villain, Spock Prime is actually from the mirror universe, or (as I just read) John Watson from BBC Sherlock is a werewolf. Some werewolf aus are absolutely brilliant, some are poorly executed, and others are terrible. And then there are the authors who don't tag their fics with appropriate content warnings. That can be jarring.

[akavertigo]

Unless you're reading Teen Wolf. Irony.

[re_white]

Have you read this? Every time I think I'm done with TW fic this kind of thing happens and I'm back to picking through rec lists.

[elaineofshalott]

I just don't get the appeal of creature AUs. Aren't there enough vampires and werewolves in the culture? Do we really need yet more? Though I suppose if it's well written, and seeks, for example, to counter werewolf and vampire stereotypes, or twist them in some interesting way...no, stop me before I cave and read one; the bestiality bullets would kill me with shame and anguish. (I have not faced them since that one ill-fated Lupin/Tonks fic I read, back in the dark days of the fandom which dare not speak its name.)

[re_white]

Sometimes the fandom setting seems so incongruent with creature!au that I have no choice but to read it just to see how it's done. (I read a really fantastic werewolf au for the Star Trek reboot a couple years ago that blew my mind with how seamless the characterization was.) I like seeing how authors try to twist the mythos around to make it fit. Some takes are just so well done or clever that I can't make myself dismiss the tag when I see it.

(Sherlock fandom in particular has some of the best AUs I've ever read, period - magical realism, genderswitch, ect).

[eonism]

The gun is loaded with bestiality.

The greatest out-of-context quote in history.

[re_white]

I sort of want it on a t-shirt.

[re_white]

Yikes.

Let us drink together.