Beyond the Roundels

I finally wrote the AU Meme for Catherine Winslow & Sir Robert Morton from The Winslow Boy! I was going to say I have no explanation for why it took me so long, but that's not true: I blame the moment when I realised the perfect fusion fandom was Star Wars (Prequel Era) for breaking my brain into tiny little pieces. (It also took me absolutely ages to come up with the obligatory Romance Novel one, until it finally dawned on me that the 1999 pair had canonically done a thing that would totally be a Scandalous Trope requiring instant marriage in the Romancelandia Regency.)

I should apologise for the SW, the crossover, and probably more, but what are daft AU Memes for if not doing these things?

(The question now is, is it TWB that's the problem or am I just getting terrible at encapsulating an AU into as few words as possible?)

AU Meme: Catherine Winslow/Sir Robert Morton (3933 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Winslow Boy (1999), An Ideal Husband (1999)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Robert Morton/Catherine Winslow
Characters: Robert Morton (Winslow Boy), Catherine Winslow, Arthur Winslow, Grace Winslow, Lady Gertrude Chiltern, Mabel Chiltern
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés, Alternate Universe - Star Wars Fusion, Alternate Universe - Supernatural Elements, Alternate Universe - Fairy Tale, Crossover, 1910s, Alternate Universe - Medical, Alternate Universe - Apocalypse, mentions of John Watherstone/Catherine Winslow, Edwardian Period, Alternate Universe - Regency
Summary: Ten AU scenarios for Catherine Winslow & Sir Robert Morton for an old meme.

I finally managed to complete another AU Meme ficlet, and two makes a post, so here we are:

AU Meme: Sapphire and Steel (1135 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sapphire and Steel
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sapphire & Steel (S&S), Sapphire/Steel (S&S)
Characters: Sapphire (S&S), Steel (S&S), Gold (S&S)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Ficlet, Request Meme
Summary: 10 AU scenarios for Sapphire & Steel, written for a Dreamwidth meme.


AU Meme: Kathryn Janeway (1046 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kathryn Janeway/Tom Paris
Characters: Kathryn Janeway, Tom Paris
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Episode: s02e15 Threshold, Blake's 7 Fusion, Ficlet, Memes, Request Meme
Summary: 10 AU scenarios for Kathryn Janeway in a Dreamwidth meme.

Only a month and a half between them! What's more, I realised that the Janeway one makes me eligible to sign up with Voyager as an option for Remix if I want now, which is cool. Also I'm amused because at least one of those snippets could 100% not be AU, I realised as soon as I wrote it.

I haven't forgotten the AU Meme, despite appearances (that exchange fic was long and awkward and took it all out of me for two or three weeks), and here, as proof, are the first two sets, for hamsterwoman and philomytha respectively:

AU Meme: Vila Restal (1158 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Blake's 7
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kerril/Vila Restal, Kerr Avon & Vila Restal
Characters: Vila Restal, Roj Blake, Kerr Avon, Kerril (Blake's 7), Cally (Blake's 7)
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Alternate Universe, Request Meme, Alternate Universe - Star Wars Fusion
Summary: 10 AU scenarios for Vila written for a Dreamwidth meme.


AU Meme: Gytha Ogg (1227 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Discworld - Terry Pratchett
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Giamo Casanunda/Gytha "Nanny" Ogg, Gytha "Nanny" Ogg & Esmerelda "Granny" Weatherwax, implied Gytha "Nanny" Ogg/Owen Tudor
Characters: Gytha "Nanny" Ogg, Esmerelda "Granny" Weatherwax, Giamo Casanunda, Samuel Vimes
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings Fusion, Humor, References to Shakespeare, Innuendo, but probably not as much as there ought to be
Summary: 10 AU scenarios for Nanny Ogg written for a Dreamwidth meme.

Time for a meme! I thought I'd give the AU one another go round - I did it last year in celebration of the end of summer and here we are again, so:

Give me a character/pairing and I will write snippets of ten different alternate universes for it. One line, ten lines, a ficlet if you're lucky.

Canon Divergence
Coffee Shop
Shapeshifters
Magic
. . . In SPACE!!
Historical
Fusion
Police/Firefighters/Medical
Supernatural
Regency/Romance Novel

I have changed some of the options up again, just to vary things up a bit. The full list of people/pairings I have already done is under the cut below, as I am not sure I could do this twice for anybody! Otherwise anything I know is fair game, and I'll just let you have another choice if I really can't do something. (My tags and my interests are a fairly good indicator of things I know & like between them.)

( List of already AU-ed Characters/Pairings )

(I'll get there eventually!)

( DW - Sarah Jane Smith )

( Miss Marple )

( DW - Donna Noble )

I am doing the AU Meme, honest! Here are the first three results, by way of proof:

( Discworld: Sam Vimes )

( B7: Deva )


( DW: Five, Tegan & Nyssa )

I've managed a few of the AU Meme ficlets so far (and a few still yet to come). I have been posting them to AO3 & of course in the comments, but in the absence of other things going on, I thought I might as well round them up here, too:

( Liz Shaw )

( Justin Alastair, Duke of Avon )

( Nine & Rose )


( Adam Adamant & Georgina Jones )

( Harry Pearce/Ruth Evershed )

( Leela )

( Roderick Alleyn )