Changing the mythology

[lizardbeth]

When I'm writing an AU (by which I mean a "What if X happened differently?" AU, not a "Everybody's in High School!" Elseworlds type thing), I tend, because I have canon-neuroses, to try to keep everything the same up to that point, including character backstories and 'verse mythology. That way, the plot and characters may unfold differently, but the underpinnings remain the same

However, I'm not going to be able to do that for my BSG Not all that we are-verse story. Okay, I COULD, but I'm not going to, because I like the mythology I created. It is, however, giving me TWINGES OF GUILT, like "no one's going to read this because it's going so far afield of canon. WOE!"

So, in order to make me feel better about continuing a story that will completely and utterly reject everything we have now learned about the Opera House, Hera, Earth, the Head People, etc, how about a poll?

[Poll #1375303]

I know, I know it's silly. I think it's my inner Tolkien canon-whore. It's kind of a disease. I'll still write, I'll just cringe a little, until I get used to ignoring canon so blithely (in a place I would usually USE it).

Comments

[ivanolix.livejournal.com]

I think it's my inner Tolkien canon-whore

Never heard it called that before. ;-) But anyway, it's not something I'd do for any other canon, but it's fine to mess with the underlying mythology of BSG. Most fic out there was completely jossed but still worth reading, and given that it's kind of a strange situation (where mythology is actually meant literally), it feels right to play with AUs where things were just different. So even though I'm normally neurotic about canon, I've considered writing fundamentally-changed AUs for BSG...and I'll definitely read more of yours.

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

oh, (some) LotR fans are NOTORIOUSLY hard on canon-flouters. I'm also VERY persnickety about my LotR canon when I read, and the one major AU I wrote there was extremely canon based. I did research - I found EVIDENCE to back up my assertion that Sauron was embodied in case anyone challenged me. It's a ... different sort of fandom from t.v. based fic.

So anyway, for the next AU-fic, Ariadne, I'll disclaim at the beginning to expect different answers and hope it's cool enough I take everyone with me.

[ivanolix.livejournal.com]

Oh, Tolkien was my sole fandom playground for a couple years...I know all about the goings on there. ;-) It is very different from other fandoms; I just never heard it referred to in that way before.