Oh that's right, I forgot about the genderswap AUs! And the rest, a/b/o etc. There seem to be a fair number of those.
I think for me, though, the ones that add something to the canon 'verse without changing anything else read somewhat differently than the total AUs. There's an absolutely lovely AU in which Bucky is a secret merperson and all other things stay more or less the same -- but I don't know, it reads somewhat differently to me than an "everybody is a merperson and they all have an undersea adventure" AU, if that makes any sense? I don't even know quite how to classify it, because I've always sort of classified AU's into the "turn left at canon" type and the "total AU" type, but those seem to be a third kind yet, the "secret history" or "change one thing and go from there" type in which Steve is female but nothing else is different, or whatever ...
I'm also intrigued by the idea of more canon-divergent AUs, although so far, most of the ones I've seen were taking place within a fairly narrow set of options ("Steve is the Winter Soldier" is the most common one, it seems). As with any fandom, I guess that I'd love to see more of a variety of plots, and more people exploring parts of canon that aren't very well developed in fandom ...
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I think for me, though, the ones that add something to the canon 'verse without changing anything else read somewhat differently than the total AUs. There's an absolutely lovely AU in which Bucky is a secret merperson and all other things stay more or less the same -- but I don't know, it reads somewhat differently to me than an "everybody is a merperson and they all have an undersea adventure" AU, if that makes any sense? I don't even know quite how to classify it, because I've always sort of classified AU's into the "turn left at canon" type and the "total AU" type, but those seem to be a third kind yet, the "secret history" or "change one thing and go from there" type in which Steve is female but nothing else is different, or whatever ...
I'm also intrigued by the idea of more canon-divergent AUs, although so far, most of the ones I've seen were taking place within a fairly narrow set of options ("Steve is the Winter Soldier" is the most common one, it seems). As with any fandom, I guess that I'd love to see more of a variety of plots, and more people exploring parts of canon that aren't very well developed in fandom ...