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[sage]

Helllllllllooooooo, AU-makers! We are SO GLAD you're playing in the Alternate Universe challenge, and we want to say a huge thank you to everyone who's contributed to the GIANT BRAINSTORMING POST OF AWESOME! If you haven't looked lately, go check it out. It's still open to new suggestions, and everyone is welcome to jump in (again and again) at any point.

Right now we want to give y'all a place to chat about what you might want to make. Feel free to ask for or offer help, work out logistics, recruit co-creators, ask research questions, request help with plot or format ideas, crowdsource ideas for your AU fanworks-to-be, and so on!

Comment Policy:
Kindly be respectful! We have a wild array of fannish loves in this challenge, and so we expect ALL characters, pairings, fandoms, and fanwork-formats to be treated with respect, no matter how far out in left field you might think they are. Please leave the "My OTP is the BEST!" jingoism at the door, okay? There's totally enough fannish love here for everyone!

Deadlines:
The first posting weekend is in 9 weeks! The last one is in 29 weeks. ALL types of fanworks are welcome, of whatever length/complexity, so let's get started!

Optional questions:
What are you making/going to make?
How far have you gotten?
When/how did you find DS/C6D fandom?

The next check-in post will go up in 2 weeks, but they'll become weekly as the deadlines near. As always, if you have any questions, let us know! \o/

Comments

[luzula]

Oh, interesting! I know of one fic that does that (switching the Rays) which I could link you to if you wanted, but of course you might also want to write it without reading that fic first. : )

[garonne]

:( I might have known it was too nice an idea not to have been done already! Please do send me the link - I'd rather be sure I'm not just writing the same story again. If it's also a Fraser/RayK story from RayV's POV then... argh! I'm out of luck...

[luzula]

Okay! Here it is--it is hugely long.

And I hope you didn't take it as discouragement! There is absolutely room for many takes on the same story idea. : )

[garonne]

Thank you! Wow, that is long... And thanks for the encouragement! :)

[sage]

Oh, honey, keep in mind that Due South's pilot aired 18 1/2 years ago and the fandom's existed since the Usenet days. Don't fret over whether something's been done before. Focus on making it what you want it to be. Granted, it's nice to check and see if you're accidentally echoing something someone else already wrote, but as Oliver Welles would say, "That just proves it's a good idea." You can absolutely reframe it in a way that makes it your own. Yay transformative work! :)

[ardyforshort]

That's a fab attitude. I'm just going to put the last part of this in my quote journal for a rainy day :)

[garonne]

Hey, thanks for the encouragement! Yeah, I guess I was being a little bit naive :-) I haven't been kicking around in this fandom for very long. I even just had to go look up who Oliver Welles was. Well, now I know what show I'm going to be watching on youtube this evening!