Round 2: Alternate Universes

[hwarium]

Status: Closed This round has closed. It remains open for fills and comments, but prompts are no longer accepted. Seventeen Holidays Round 2: Alternate Universes About Sometimes its the characters that move us, but sometimes we fall in love with the the world behind the story. Something transformative occurs when we place the characters we love in an unfamiliar world, like the light has shone on a new side and we're seeing them anew. Run to the classics; revisit the magic of Harry Potter, the heart-punch of a Pacific Rim drift, the warmth of a Coffee Shop AU. Or maybe dig your fingers into a story that blew your mind - Battle Royale, The Raven Cycle, Interstellar - or demand better from a book that let you down (The Poppy War fin- mmph). Perhaps! You might combine two of your fandoms for maximum joy (Haikyuu and Tennis adjacent mutuals, I'm looking at you.) The possibilities are literally endless. Do it for the aesthetic, do it for the drama. Examples Wonhui x MDZS/Untamed Wonwoo as Lan Wanji, Jun as Wei Wuxian (Minghao as Jiang Cheng?). I want a cast that feels betrayed and shocked at Junhui's demise but then gradually learning his reasons behind it. Mingyu/Seungkwan Debating AU Imagine them as third speakers in the high school circuit. Rivals! Mortal Enemies! Prepared case summaries derailing into personal attacks, and then when their coach calls them out on it they become passive aggressive e.g. "there are major flaws in the opposition's arguments..." Jeonghan as Mal from Inception Any Jeonghan ship will do. I just want him to chaotically haunt a person while being sexy about it. Rules Sign up is not required. Fills have a minimum of 400 words for prose, haiku-length for poetry (3 lines), and 400px by 400px for art (memes are also art). Other mediums are fine too! There is no maximum cap. Tag and provide content warnings at your discretion, but a good guide are the Ao3 four (Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con, Underage) and this list of common CWs (cr: SportsFest). NSFW/Explicit content should be tagged NSFW art should not be visible. Please provide a link to the art. You may crop the artwork and embed a SFW preview. How it works Prompting Click on [Post a New Comment] at the bottom of this post; Change the subject to something interesting and saucy; Copy+Paste the following HTML into your comment and fill in the sections. Feel free to add as much detail as you want! <strong>Ship/Member:</strong> Any <strong>Major Tags:</strong> N/A <strong>Additional Tags:</strong> N/A <strong>Do Not Wants:</strong> None <strong>Prompt:</strong> Filling Reply to the original prompt; Change the subject to [FILL], you may add a title or stay chaotic; Copy+Paste the following HTML into your comment, fill in the sections, and add your text You may also upload your fill to the AO3 Collection <strong>Ship/Member:</strong> Any <strong>Major Tags:</strong> N/A <strong>Additional Tags:</strong> N/A <strong>Permission to remix:</strong> Yes/No/Please ask *** Filling with art/media Do the same as above, also; Upload your work to any platform (twitter, imgur, youtube, soundcloud, google maps, etc.) Insert the link to your work, done! Optionally, you can embed a picture into your comment. Please use the following code instead. (To explain, the HTML resizes your picture to 400x400px so that it fits on most screens, users can view the full size if they click on it. You can also add a link to your work on twitter so that others can share it, or to any other website you want) <strong>Ship/Member:</strong> Any <strong>Major Tags:</strong> N/A <strong>Additional Tags:</strong> N/A <strong>Permission to remix:</strong> Yes/No/Please ask *** <img src="INSERT IMAGE URL" width="400px"> <a href="INSERT ANY URL YOU WANT">TEXT THAT DESCRIBES THE LINK</a>

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Re: [FILL] part of me (gone)

[klav]

HWA!! I am so glad you enjoyed this - is enjoyed the right word? Got something out of it X) To be honest, I hardly remember writing this, because I wrote it last year and decided not to post for some reason - think I was nervous about meddling in a new genre. But I know this became jeongcheol 80% to Get you and 20% to explore Seungcheol's tragic heroisms haahahahaha. (The Carson epigraph however was 100% to Get you)

Like you were displaced and now you're misplaced. When you know that everyone you met had already grieved you and moved on, and the world no longer has a space for you. - gah this is beautifully worded, making my feelings overgrow as well

Ahhh, the way you talk about the emotions that sci-fi usually elicits vs how you felt reading this, the fear from disaster stories crossing over, that is SO interesting!!! I had to sit down and really think about what science fiction is about. Truthfully I haven't read much sci-fi, I mainly watch it. The media that stuck with me most all had elements of horror, and I think that subconsciously became a cornerstone of the genre for me (on top of my interest in climate + disaster stories just spilling everywhere LOL). I'm wondering if my perceptions are out of whack, brb searching for a link to Interstellar or Voices of a Distant Star to test this -- are there any other, I'm not sure, softer sci-fi medias that you would recommend? Or, more focused on adventure rather than fear/fallout?

(Star Trek is sort of in that vein of depictions but I think so often of [voyages] by ao3 user junos, I can't remember if we've talked about this fic before?, but there's a line about Seungkwan there, A golden cloudlike parasite once used him as a host, undetected. After, after they lured it out and destroyed it with electricity, before it could feed from any more of the crew, Boo hung his head between his knees and sobbed and said it was so lonely, it was the last of its kind. The fic is in Trek verse and not otherwise Scary, but what I felt reading that line in particular - terrified, choked up, knocked off my feet, etc. - is I think how I understand the genre as a whole.)

I haven't read the exo lj fic!!! It looks like op has hidden it, or I just don't know how to request access yet - will poke around and see if I can read it because wow, what a concept. I've never eaten time dilation & had no idea it was such a Trope, would love to see more *__*

ANYWAY sorry this got a bit long, thank you for responding to this so generously!!! You always have the most eloquent thoughts on media + writing and I feel like I learn so much from listening TT__TT <3 Very happy if this could Get you!