I Wish There Were More Creative AUs

I get tired of reading high school, college, mental hospital, and tour AUs all the time. It gets old after a while and too many of them end up sounding the same because so many authors want to give the people the same problems and not vary it up. Or in the case of mental hospital stories, usually misrepresent or romanticize serious mental health disorders (reminiscent of "one sick love story" bleh). There's not much else to choose from. There's not that many genderswaps, sci-fi, fantasy, or just a normal AU where they're regular people with regular jobs. I've read some really fantastic AU on AO3, for instance (fantasy, time period change, genderswap, sci-fi, etc.) and it's kind of sad to not see as much creativity on a site that is much, much larger with more members and more stories. And despite there being hundredrs of pages for some bands, I've still done extensive hours of searching to end up with maybe a handful of stories that don't fit one of the four popular categories. Some variety would be nice.
February 24th, 2014 at 02:58pm