The AU Meme

[browngirl]

I saw this meme and loved it immediately. My version is a mashup of the ones I saw in penknife and miakun's journals:

The Hypothetical AU Meme: Take any one of the fandoms you know I write AND give me a type of AU (space opera AU, pirate AU, superhero AU, etc.) or a time period (Ancient Rome, Renaissance England, etc). I will then explain what story from that fandom I would write for that AU.

While I will very much not mind being asked for a Minoan AU, I like other time periods and settings too!

Comments

[ilyena_sylph]

Babylon 5 in the Renaissance?

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

I'm really sorry I took so long to write this. I've been thinking about it, because while my first inclination was to write about the unification of Italy (after all, one of the most important characters in both is named Garibaldi) but that unification was long after the Renaissance.

Italy still seemed like the best setting, though, with its fragmented, warring city-states. I never managed to do more than to envision a castle called Babylon, neutral ground for people from all these mutually hostile states, the fifth castle built on its hill after the first three fell and the fourth vanished one night in a wild storm. A station headed by a gallant young English captain named Sheridan, and whose ambassadors include a mysterious princess, rumored to be a faery or a witch, named Delenn.

It's a setting, at least.

[ilyena_sylph]

Ooooooooh!

It's a setting I like, certainly! *grins* I like your explanation for it being 5, too.

and hey, you're a busy woman, and I think this was a pretty quick turn-around on this meme...

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