#also my betsyororo shadowhunters au from three (

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Shadowhunters AUs - taking the characters from an unrelated work and placing them in the Shadowhunters universe - are so interesting & compelling because there's a lot going on in TSC. There's race issues/fantasy racism, there's weird class stuff, there's tension between the idea of the found family and Clare's obsession with biological family, there's the idea of women as equal warriors but not worthy leaders, there's the way that the world government they have seems to privilege American and European people, there's the Clave's homophobia but also their transphobia, which is explicitly connected to their ableism, there's the runes themselves and the way that artistry and divinity are linked, there's all this religious stuff that is never really explained but is mined heavily for aesthetics, there's just a lot! And much of it is created because Clare's worldbuilding is kind of sloppy and haphazard. Taking some other work and trying to figure out how those characters are going to act out their plots and their themes within that world is really fun because you get to tease out the parts you think are relevant and say, oh, now we're gonna talk about this, or this, all while dressing your favourite characters up in fantasy leather and letting them fight demons. It's a fun time.

#m.txt #tsc blogging #thinking about my deancas shadowhunters au. it's actually pretty compelling imo. #(it exists only in my head; i haven't even started writing it yet.) #but there's so much you can do with shadowhunters as a setting #and again i think that's in part bc the worldbuilding and messaging from clare are not very well crafted #and the fun bits are plagiarized anyway! #I just don't want this post to be taken as me praising CC's talent ajkfdhasdfkajd #but really they are fun #also my betsyororo shadowhunters au from three (?) years ago i love you and i'll never give up on you