(You're right, that meeting in his office is certainly scandalous enough to require instant marriage by Regency romance logic! xDD)
I was so amused when it finally struck me!
Also, out of curiosity, how do you select the AUs you choose to write snippets for? Do you have a general list somewhere?
Yes, it was a set meme, except I changed it every time, including the first one, but:
Wild West Coffee Shop Shapeshifters Pirates . . . In SPACE!! Born Another Gender Schoolfic Police/Firefighters Urban Fantasy Regency
(I substituted two of these instead of the original meme's Harem and Cyberpunk, but at this late date I cannot remember which two. Well, Regency I'm pretty sure, but I'm stumped as to the other.)
But I would switch out whichever category I found most tiresome last time I did it each round, so I have two other lists
Wild West Coffee Shop Shapeshifters Fantasy/Fairy Tale . . . In SPACE!! Apocalypse Schoolfic Police/Firefighters/Medical* Supernatural Regency
This last list was the one I was using for this, but because I wasn't doing it as a request meme, I just substituted anything that was a well known fanfic AU type if I wasn't getting anywhere with it. (Canon Divergence got lost because I kept getting hung up on the only thing I could think of was them losing the case, and I didn't want to go there. And shapeshifters was the category I was getting most tired of, so I brought back Apocalypse instead.)
So basically, as long as you have a list of 10 well-recognised fanfic AU types and stick to it, you have your meme!
perhaps because the original source material is so wordy (thanks Rattigan)
It may be, but the 1999 is often rather terse! Honestly, I very nearly did Explanatory Notes on top, so, lol. I don't know whether or not to cure myself by doing this meme again properly, or if I should just never do this meme again properly if I want a life. :-D
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(You're right, that meeting in his office is certainly scandalous enough to require instant marriage by Regency romance logic! xDD)
I was so amused when it finally struck me!
Also, out of curiosity, how do you select the AUs you choose to write snippets for? Do you have a general list somewhere?
Yes, it was a set meme, except I changed it every time, including the first one, but:
Wild West
Coffee Shop
Shapeshifters
Pirates
. . . In SPACE!!
Born Another Gender
Schoolfic
Police/Firefighters
Urban Fantasy
Regency
(I substituted two of these instead of the original meme's Harem and Cyberpunk, but at this late date I cannot remember which two. Well, Regency I'm pretty sure, but I'm stumped as to the other.)
But I would switch out whichever category I found most tiresome last time I did it each round, so I have two other lists
Wild West
Coffee Shop
Shapeshifters
Fantasy/Fairy Tale
. . . In SPACE!!
Apocalypse
Schoolfic
Police/Firefighters/Medical*
Supernatural
Regency
Canon Divergence
Coffee Shop
Shapeshifters
Magic
. . . In SPACE!!
Historical
Fusion
Police/Firefighters/Medical
Supernatural
Regency/Romance Novel
This last list was the one I was using for this, but because I wasn't doing it as a request meme, I just substituted anything that was a well known fanfic AU type if I wasn't getting anywhere with it. (Canon Divergence got lost because I kept getting hung up on the only thing I could think of was them losing the case, and I didn't want to go there. And shapeshifters was the category I was getting most tired of, so I brought back Apocalypse instead.)
So basically, as long as you have a list of 10 well-recognised fanfic AU types and stick to it, you have your meme!
perhaps because the original source material is so wordy (thanks Rattigan)
It may be, but the 1999 is often rather terse! Honestly, I very nearly did Explanatory Notes on top, so, lol. I don't know whether or not to cure myself by doing this meme again properly, or if I should just never do this meme again properly if I want a life. :-D