Have you been in the situation where you know the characters' AU occupation well enough that it threw you right out of the story?
Ohhhh, yeah. Classical music won't do it for me - I go to concerts and performances and that's where it ends. But there are occupational AUs where I'm TWITCHING, going, "It's not like that! It's not!" (Canon also does this to me all the time.)
Out of curiosity: did String Theory throw you out of the AU?
I have a haunting fear that someone will write an opera AU and I'll have to read it. I may have to write it in self-defense (or just to exorcise the image of Radek the repetiteur who's the only person competent to argue authenticity with Rodney.)
OMG WRITE IT WRITE PLEASE. I would read that! I would so read that! And it would make me deeply happy. (I know very little of opera, although I have a sick addiction to books about the formation and management of opera houses and companies. And I've been to operas, of course.) And it would save you from having to cringe your way through one written by someone else! Everyone would win! Can you be bribed?
I haven't even read the HTLJ fic yet, but yes please!
The Anubis Gates, by Tim Powers. It is pure fetish porn for those of us with Egyptian mythology, time travel, and Romantic poets kinks. (Which, wow. I didn't think there would be so many people who shared all three kinks, but I should've remembered that these are fans. Oh, fandom, how are you so awesome?)
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Ohhhh, yeah. Classical music won't do it for me - I go to concerts and performances and that's where it ends. But there are occupational AUs where I'm TWITCHING, going, "It's not like that! It's not!" (Canon also does this to me all the time.)
Out of curiosity: did String Theory throw you out of the AU?
I have a haunting fear that someone will write an opera AU and I'll have to read it. I may have to write it in self-defense (or just to exorcise the image of Radek the repetiteur who's the only person competent to argue authenticity with Rodney.)
OMG WRITE IT WRITE PLEASE. I would read that! I would so read that! And it would make me deeply happy. (I know very little of opera, although I have a sick addiction to books about the formation and management of opera houses and companies. And I've been to operas, of course.) And it would save you from having to cringe your way through one written by someone else! Everyone would win! Can you be bribed?
I haven't even read the HTLJ fic yet, but yes please!
The Anubis Gates, by Tim Powers. It is pure fetish porn for those of us with Egyptian mythology, time travel, and Romantic poets kinks. (Which, wow. I didn't think there would be so many people who shared all three kinks, but I should've remembered that these are fans. Oh, fandom, how are you so awesome?)