I Don’t Think I Am - Blog Posts

Yall I haven’t been in the fanfiction realm in awhile but back in my day (circa 2016-2017) an AU meant that people were ACTUALLY in situations that were completely outside the realm of the canon (marvel characters in a high school AU, House MD but they’re veterinarians, Johnlock but they’re professors, etc)

BUT NOW IM SEEING FICS WHERE IT SAYS THE DUMBEST SHIT POSSIBLE!!! Like when someone kept everything very canon and timeline compliant but made a character autistic in the realm of their fic and calls it an Autism AU! Like I’m pretty sure THATS NOT HOW IT WORKS?????

Or like calling the fic an AU (with no label) but all that’s different is that the ship the fic is centered around is “canon” and like…THATS JUST A NORMAL FANFICTION??? ARE YOU FUCKING DENSE????

But like I said I haven’t really been into fanfiction since 2016-2017 and just got deep back into it in the past month ish so maybe the term has changed but I feel like I’m going crazy someone help me