I'd like to lure more people into participating in the AU Exchange, for alternate universes! Both canon divergence (what if Lobelia Baggins got the One Ring?) and actual alternate universes (what if Little House on the Prairie was a space opera?)

You can select from available fandoms and types of alternate universes here in the tagset - the types of alternate universes are under "freeforms," sorted by ones specific to certain fandoms and ones that can be applied to any, labeled "ALL." So, for instance, you select "Narnia" as your fandom, "Eustace Scrubb & Jill Pole" as your characters, and "ALL: Creepy/Dark Circus" as your AU. And so forth.

Here are a few of my favorite alternate universe tags which you can request someone to write for you, or offer to write yourself:

Star Wars Sequel Trilogy: Everything is the same except Kylo Ren is a chicken

Star Wars The Last Unicorn: The Last Unicorn is set and true in Star Wars

X-Men Comics: Xavier's Mansion Haunted By All The Dead Team Members

ALL: Heian Japan AU

ALL: Travelers on the Silk Road AU

ALL: Hyperspace test pilot AU

ALL: Female characters are the major players

ALL: Humans Soulbonding To Animals Is Common But Looked Down Upon

ALL: One Character Is A Demon That The Other Character(s) Summoned

ALL: Soulmate or 1000 Roaches AU (Context.)

I'm still working on my letter but in the meantime you can look at this one for an example of how it all might work. Contains huge spoilers for all listed fandoms, but if you click you'll see them all under a cut so you can just look at the ones you want to see.
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From: [personal profile] sholio


I'm still working on my signup, but this looks super fun. It's taking forever because there are so many prompts to choose from!
sholio: sun on winter trees (Default)

From: [personal profile] sholio


I'm reading the other signups and I am both amused and charmed by the one prompt about Charles Xavier being a cat all along and just using his psychic powers to convince everyone that he's not a cat.
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From: [personal profile] sovay


the one prompt about Charles Xavier being a cat all along and just using his psychic powers to convince everyone that he's not a cat.

I'm not so sure about James McAvoy, but I feel absolutely nothing in Patrick Stewart's interpretation disproves this.
sovay: (Morell: quizzical)

From: [personal profile] sovay


Star Wars Sequel Trilogy: Everything is the same except Kylo Ren is a chicken

I must ask if you've seen this.
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From: [personal profile] sovay


Witch King: no living man can kill me - AUGH FUCK, RACCOON, RACCOON ON MY LEG ARGHHHH

I really love that one. Also the reaction of the Ringwraiths.
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From: [personal profile] sartorias


Avert! Averrrt!

WHY do I always get hit with ideas that will not pay bills?

Avert, avert, avert, will not look any farther in tag set, not not not.
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From: [personal profile] sartorias


As soon as I saw the three choices under Jane Austen, I thought OMG resurrection fic: pirates, wolves, empress of the Tang dynasty (that is a super popular trope, modern women resurrected back in time and kicking ass and taking names in ancient China), gender-cross fun . . . If you know the characters in Austen it makes it the more delicious.
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From: [personal profile] larryhammer


OMG Jane Austen heroine transmigrated to Chinese (pseudo)historical imperial family politics eeeeeeEEEEEEEE!!! That would be SO AWESOME.
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From: [personal profile] sartorias


I KNOW. I sat there for like ten minutes picturing this, then wrenched my eyeballs back to the desk pile. Maybe somebody else will pick up the idea, because I'd read the heck out of that, in a Wu Xia or Xian Xia setting.
monanotlisa: symbol, image, ttrpg, party, pun about rolling dice and getting rolling (Default)

From: [personal profile] monanotlisa


I love the last four ALL prompts!
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From: [personal profile] emceeaich


"Star Wars Sequel Trilogy: Everything is the same except Kylo Ren is a chicken".

Thank you. That made my day.
chomiji: Shigure from Fruits Basket, holding a pencil between his nose and upper lip; caption CAUTION - Thinking in Progress (shigure-thinking)

From: [personal profile] chomiji


I may have to do this. It looks like Saiyuki 7th Night Smut, which was relationships in AU settings, is dead.

On the other haned I have another exchange due a week before this one.

*is conflicted*

chomiji: Hakkai and Gojyo form Saiyuki, with autumn leaves drifting down and the caption Falling (Gojyo and Hakkai - falling)

From: [personal profile] chomiji


Yeah ... I can even assemble a request that I've been longing to have someone write, but no one's ever picked up the prompt:

Group: Cho Hakkai/Sha Gojyo
All: One Character Is A Demon That The Other Character(s) Summoned

I'll have to look at it this weekend, when I may have time to breathe!

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From: [personal profile] kore


It sounds fun but I also got really burned out on AUs when I would look for canon or canon divergent MCU fic on AO3 and find NOTHING BUT untagged AUs of all kinds, so I am soured on non-divergent AU stuff at the moment.
nenya_kanadka: let me fall into the dream of the astronaut (@ astronaut)

From: [personal profile] nenya_kanadka


Not sure this is something I have energy for right now but it sounds amazing. ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜
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From: [personal profile] vaznetti


I think I will do this if I can pull a signup together on Sunday -- there are so many amazing options!
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From: [personal profile] jack


Oh, that's awesome. I want the chicken one. Except I don't think I actually have time to sign up to more things.
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From: [personal profile] cyphomandra


Ooh. I mean, Iโ€™m behind on everything and my household have just developed gastro, but this sounds fabulous...
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