Minor grumping.

[krait]

Dear Homestuck authors:

If you are writing an all-human AU, please tag your fic with that!

Hint: tagging it with plain old "AU", or any subcategory thereof (such as "college AU") does not remove the need for a "Humanstuck" tag.

Thanks.

P.S. - I realise this is a matter of personal taste, but why do you all write so much humanstuck fic?! Your fic would be a thousand times better if it were, say, a coffee shop AU or college AU or rock band AU, or whatever, and did that without ducking out of the issues that come along with mixing two disparate cultures and species! Call me a one-trick pony, but watching humans and trolls pair up and accomplish life goals is ever so much more interesting when you don't take away two-thirds of the potential conflict before the story even starts.

Sigh.

P.P.S - Star Trek fandom, this goes for you, too. (I haven't been reading you nearly as much, lately, but that may change when/if I see the movie, so you can't hide forever!)

Comments

[novembermond]

yes, this. I really want to able to weed those out and not find out that there are only humans five §§ in. and homestuck fandom even has the perfect term for it to tag with. (of course homestuck has a term for everything).

[krait]

Yes! I have picked up fics where I had to skim two or three chapters to find out if it was humanstuck or not! That's ridiculous. Especially since, as you point out, homestuck has a perfect term/tag for everything!