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

[sophinisba]

Torchwood as film noir, set in 1940s (or so) California.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Torchwood in the milieu of L.A. Confidential! A tall man with a bright smile who can charm anyone of any sex out of their secrets and their pants; his sharp-tongued, sharp-dressed right hand man, as good with a gun as an address-book; their brilliant young Japanese doctor, who fled her homeland rather than participate in the military's imperialism, and who struggles now against the anger and prejudice of post-war America; an unethical but equally brilliant, and utterly smarmy, horndog doctor; and a curly-haired dame with a big grin and a hard right hook, who joined up after the police offered her a job as a meter maid. Whenever there's trouble in the City of Angels of a more-than-ordinary kind, these five are there to investigate, contain, and give out kisses and oblivion pills.

I'm sorry this took me so long, but I do hope you like it.

[sophinisba]

Yes, that's wonderful. Pretty close to what I was imagining (and I do think TW would work really well in that setting) but I love the bit about handing out oblivion pills, adds just a touch of fantasy to it that wouldn't have occurred to me.