What If? AU Challenge

Hello! I’m your host, brumeier. For my birthday I decided to treat myself to one of my favorite fic things: an AU! How do I define an AU? For me, it means taking canon characters and making a significant change in their circumstances. This can happen within the confines of canon (canon divergent) or the characters can be dropped into completely different worlds.

Basically, an AU is a fun way for me to see how I can keep canon characters familiar in wholly new surroundings or circumstances. As simple as ‘what if character A had done this instead of character B’ or as complex as ‘character A is now a barbarian with mystic powers’. And everything in between!

Starting April 2021, the monthly posts will be going bimonthly. I'm keeping this community nice and simple, so here’s everything you need to know:

We’re multifandom! This challenge welcomes all fandoms, including RPF and original fic. All ships, romantic or platonic. I only ask that everyone remains respectful. There’s room for all of us here.

No minimum wordcounts! You can write as little or as much as you want to meet the challenge topic. In fact, you don’t have to write at all. Challenge fills can be fanvids or fanart or whatever outlet your creativity feels like using.

Prompts welcome! I'll offer up some suggestions for each theme, and encourage anyone else who wants to do the same. If you have a cool idea for how a particular theme could play out please respond in the comments.

No deadlines! Every other month, a new theme will be posted, but if you start working on something that takes on epic proportions, you can post it any time. You'll still get added to the masterlist even if you write something for a theme that's years old.

Must be a joiner! Only members of this community will be able to see posts and leave comments. We want this to be a safe place for ideas to be shared. I will also be cross-posting to LJ to maximize participation.

That’s pretty much it, folks. I hope you’ll be inspired by each theme. I’ll be trying to write something for each one as well because, as I mentioned, I love AUs!

You can post your completed works anywhere, as long as you link it back here to be included in the masterlist that I compile for each AU theme. And we can all revel in the loveliness of AUs!

You can find the AO3 collection for this community here.

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Update: If you're looking for a beta reader or would like to offer your services as one, please check out this post.

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