ugh, that one is one of my favorites. but fuck, they're all my favorites. lol *headdesk* like I said, I want to wait until we know a little more about them during that time period to keep it canon compliant, so it's partly a strategic back-burnering. but I love jailbait fic, so this idea actually came out of a lot of strategic maneuvering like, "how do I get Harvey to fuck an underaged kid?" *snorfle*
and college AUs. do eeet. I feel you on not having the motivation though - that's the worst, when you like an idea you came up with but just don't want to write it. but you want it to exist.
my mind definitely moves towards AUs on its own. sometimes AU in a small way, sometimes AU in a this-world-doesn't-even-look-like-ours way, but my plot bunnies almost always begin with "what would happen if..." and the number of AUs/ARs I've written since finding fandom far outweigh 'canon' fics, from the very beginning. I really don't know why my thinking runs that way, just like I'm baffled by how people can create missing scene canon fic that not only fits canon perfectly, but sometimes even repairs it. that sounds a lot more difficult to me, haha.
*but*...when I write AUs, I do spend a lot of time thinking about things that never appear 'on screen' - part of the reason it takes me so damn long is that I feel compelled to hash out everyone's life story in that particular universe before I know exactly how they're going to react to something. whereas when I write more canonical fic, the backstory becomes a lot easier to reach for, because it's right there.
(so very flattered by "seamless" btw - thank you! and my inner neurotic thanks you even more profusely, haha)
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and college AUs. do eeet. I feel you on not having the motivation though - that's the worst, when you like an idea you came up with but just don't want to write it. but you want it to exist.
my mind definitely moves towards AUs on its own. sometimes AU in a small way, sometimes AU in a this-world-doesn't-even-look-like-ours way, but my plot bunnies almost always begin with "what would happen if..." and the number of AUs/ARs I've written since finding fandom far outweigh 'canon' fics, from the very beginning. I really don't know why my thinking runs that way, just like I'm baffled by how people can create missing scene canon fic that not only fits canon perfectly, but sometimes even repairs it. that sounds a lot more difficult to me, haha.
*but*...when I write AUs, I do spend a lot of time thinking about things that never appear 'on screen' - part of the reason it takes me so damn long is that I feel compelled to hash out everyone's life story in that particular universe before I know exactly how they're going to react to something. whereas when I write more canonical fic, the backstory becomes a lot easier to reach for, because it's right there.
(so very flattered by "seamless" btw - thank you! and my inner neurotic thanks you even more profusely, haha)