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!

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[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Oh, my word, I am a useless creature. *laugh at myself* I've spent a week contemplating this, and all I can picture is The Fellowship of the Ring being a cattle drive scattered and sundered by a large-scale raid directed by Mr. Blacktower, a rich and evil landowner who gained all his land and wealth by deception and force. I guess after that everyone would be trying to find each other again, through a landscape of rugged and unforgiving terrain, multiple American Indian tribes and Western settlements of widely varying allegiances, and the threat of attacks by Mr. Blacktower's toughs. One member of their party, Mr. Baggins, carries a secret that can bring down Mr. Blacktower if exposed, but can he survive to tell it?

*laughs at myself again* OK, that's *ridiculous*, but I hope it pleases.