Go for it! With your own fanfics, you can add trope examples from them, put them on indexes, make pages for them, etc. as with any other work. However, you cannot (a) list them on Fanfic Recs ("that is a tool for readers, not an ad-service for authors") or (b) declare Word of God statements in any wiki page.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
Does anyone else think that the moment a fanfic is labeled as AU, it shouldn't be called a fan fiction, seeing as it stops being a branch of continuity and just plain old FICTION? like a highschool AU for example. It stops being a fan made story about the actual universe and just becomes a story full of expies who just happen to have the exact same names as the originals.
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Pretty often AU is still close enough to the original that the author would get sued if they tryed publishing it as plain old fiction. Besides, some AU fics are closer to the plot and character-dynamics of the original than some non-AU fics, so your suggestion would make things really complicated.
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Do fics that are explicitly set in an Alternate Universe version of the work/franchise the fic is about count as Alternate Universe Fics?
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Yes.
There is a fine line between recklessness and courage — Paul McCartney
In particular, Divergence Fic (say, "what if House had been more severely hurt at the end of Season 4?") is a type of AU fic, and continuation fics that get directly jossed by canon will sometimes get marked this retroactively.
One also finds Alternate Universe fics of the sort (House examples) "Season 6, but Chase and Cameron never married" or "Season 6 with Kutner still in Diagnostics."
There are multiple fics with the premise "Chase lost his license at the end of 'The Mistake' — now what?" One of the kinkier ones also had an international system for registering dominant and submissive people, with subrankings for subs. (House and Wilson were doms. Chase had a sub ranking severe enough that, if he hadn't been hiding it, he wouldn't have had rights.)
So you see, it can and does happen.
There is a fine line between recklessness and courage — Paul McCartney
I'd like to include one of my fanfics which qualifies as an Alternate Universe to this page.
Can I do so?
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