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What Is AU or AR?
Dec. 1st, 2006 07:12 amJust posting my thoughts on what is AU or AR in BtVS and AtS.
Well for the complete purist, anything which is not controlled by Joss would be AU or AR, therefore all fanfiction is, as it is the fanfic authors version who has control of what happens to the character(s). I am not a purist, so I don't hold to that view myself.
My AU or AR is a completely different reality from the Jossverse, such as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
sexymermaid's Wings, Manhunter or The Janitor.
Anything set in the world of Joss where, for example, Angel and Spike are vampires, Buffy is a slayer, the Scoobies are the Scoobies, And either Sunnydale or LA are as stands in the Jossverse are variations of cannon to me.
The least AU or AR are stories which are episode reinterpratations, an example, fromsexymermaid would be Jan's latest Seven, a Spander reinterpration of Season Seven. They keep the most detail from the Jossverse seasons, and are closest to cannon.
What does everyone else think? Sorry for using you as an example Jan, but I think your work is the most widely known in my bit of the BtVS and AtS world.
Well for the complete purist, anything which is not controlled by Joss would be AU or AR, therefore all fanfiction is, as it is the fanfic authors version who has control of what happens to the character(s). I am not a purist, so I don't hold to that view myself.
My AU or AR is a completely different reality from the Jossverse, such as
sexymermaid's Wings, Manhunter or The Janitor.Anything set in the world of Joss where, for example, Angel and Spike are vampires, Buffy is a slayer, the Scoobies are the Scoobies, And either Sunnydale or LA are as stands in the Jossverse are variations of cannon to me.
The least AU or AR are stories which are episode reinterpratations, an example, from
sexymermaid would be Jan's latest Seven, a Spander reinterpration of Season Seven. They keep the most detail from the Jossverse seasons, and are closest to cannon.What does everyone else think? Sorry for using you as an example Jan, but I think your work is the most widely known in my bit of the BtVS and AtS world.
