Fandom Snowflake Challenge

Day #3: In your own space, put some favorite characters into an AU, fuse some favorite canons together, talk about your favorite AU/fusion tropes, or tell us why AU/fusions aren’t your cup of tea.

I'm not really one for crossovers, including fusions, and I've only read them when a fandom event involved it. I don't have anything against the idea of a crossover, or anything. I just don't tend to gravitate towards reading or writing that type of premise without a bit of a nudge, especially if I don't know one of the universes being added into what I do know. For some fandoms, it's also easier to get rid of oneshot collections that have been piled into one fic with, say, 15+ fandoms tagged by excluding crossovers in AO3 searches.

AU fic is such a sprawling idea that I can't say that I haven't used it, but I also don't usually set out to write AUs.

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Original Pillowfort post can be found here.