The Good AUmens AU Fest is an event of over 100 authors and artists, all producing new alternate universe works based on a prompt that was assigned to them. They’ve been at work since early March and the works will debut during the month of June.Â
This is the second of five weekly masterposts.Â
[ Link to previous masterposts: 1Â ]Â
Works arranged by date posted
June 7
Memory Loss AU: Another Time, Another Place by @indigo-angels​
Medical AU: An Ending (Ascent) by @antikate​
June 8
Medieval AU: Opposite Sides (art) by @scriobharis​
June 9
High Fantasy AU: This artwork by @khenqart​
Rumplestiltskin AU: Spinning Straw by @nicnacsnonsense​
Post-Apocalypse Survival AU: This artwork by @it-is-ineffable​
June 10
Fey AU: through the silent wood by @summerofspock​
Western AU: Your lasso wound around my neck by @d20owlbear​
Roommate AU: Lest They Be Flatmates in Disguise by @theoldaquarian​
Animal Rescue AU: See the beginning of the series here (art) by @apocalypsenah​Â
June 11
Stage Thespian AU: The Show Must Go Wrong by @noodlefrog-omens​
Tolkien AU: The Lord of the Wings, or To the World and Back Again by @mirach​
Pokemon AU: See the beginning of the series here (art) by @katherine1753​Â
June 12
Public Transit AU: come on darling, let's be lovers by @truncated-symphony
1950s Queer Activists AU: Put down the apple, Adam, and come away with me by @arokel​
Neighbors AU: Yellow Grass, High Tide by @ivory-line​
June 13
Psychics AU: things not seen by @splitting-infinities​
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normally i would suggest musketeers but given the trainwreck context, like, maybe anna karenina? i feel like i threw my head back and groaned a lot of times while reading it
whaaaaaaat see that's so interesting, because multiple people have told me anna karenina is really good, and better than war and peace. who do I believe!!!
I wonder if that's just the tolstoy effect lmao
but it is still on my list, I even have a copy already, I just think I need...my Break...from him to be a little longer
@truncated-symphony​ replied to your post:
I remember really enjoying tenant of wildfell hall, but I think you'd probably love three musketeers (full disclosure, have not read)
I already have the ebook for wildfell hall so it's definitely getting read, I just don't know when lol.
when I was trying to decide which dumas book to read, everyone told me three musketeers was not his best. so it's on the list because people told me not to do it, not because I think I'll like it. soooo. we'll see if I ever get around to it but I'm not expecting greatness.
anyway I think I am going to at least obtain a couple ebooks of les mis and take it from there, just because french sewers. also because like war and peace, it's one of those books I swore I'd never read. so. I think I gotta do it to 'em? but I will be coming back to all of these. they're all certainly higher on my priority list than melville, that's for sure.
Could not disagree more, lol. There have to better ways to celebrate spring. XP
how tf are you celebrating Easter???? in my house it means not just candy and colorful eggs (including the Ukrainian ones that my mom makes) and flowers everywhere and sweet new clothes, but also paskha with strawberries and kugel and grilled lamb with feta and tzatziki and couscous and spinach spanakopita. and strawberry rhubarb pie if we’re feeling fancy, though I prefer strawberry cream pie. everything is delicious and fresh and new after a winter of eating heavy food! and there are flowers! everywhere! also chocolate! what is not to love!!
Easter is such a waste of calendar space, imo. None of the fun and splendor of Christmas.
what!! no!! I actually love Easter, it’s spring and everything’s blooming and alive and it’s all about joy and rebirth, that’s great! I love it and I wish we did get time off for it, I would actually love to go home for it. I just don’t understand why “that’s not a thing” hasn’t sunk in with my dumbass family.
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DMV things my friend (who I can't tag why can't I tag you) experienced within 48 hours of getting here:
Traffic
the same rant verbatim about the Purple Line (seasoned with salt about the Silver Line) that I had gone on the day before, delivered by my friend. unbeknownst to her my brother had gone on it a few hours earlier with me
for the love of the gods please tell the story          Â
@truncated-symphony​ replied to your post:Â
Penn Station?? Underwear??
guys. GUYS. you know it’s not gonna be as funny as leaving you to wonder!!! Bil Watterson never explained the noodle incident!!!
however I will make a slight SLIGHT exception for this story because 1) I am not Bill Watterson and 2) I think the more I explain it the more ridiculous it is, but this is a ONE TIME THING and I am never telling you about the thing with the hammer and the crocodiles. DEAL.
anyway here’s how it all went down. under a cut because it got long.
so I have this friend right
we went to college together and knew each other but weren’t like, close
my college was really small if you went to it while I was there I knew you
anyway
she went to Boston for a while then she came to New York
then I came to New York
and we were at a thing together and had heard of each other because we went to the same school and had been told this by mutual friends/acquaintances so both of us spent the entire time subtly staring trying to figure out where we knew each other from
so we pinned each other down and hashed through everything we had ever done at college
before figuring out that it was flute choir
which I only did for a semester but I guess The Fates Intervened
and we know all the same people, because of course we do
and then we became bros
it was a pretty sweet couple years and she has a gingersnap recipe that will blow your tiny mind and sometimes I make them and eat half the dough before I can bake it
and then she moved to Alaska
listen
she wants to run a B&B and her job sucked so moving to Alaska for the summer was an entirely logical move
she’s been gone from NY a year and in that time she’s gone to Alaska then Germany and South Korea and then back to Boston
now that I type that out it makes perfect sense that this entire trip was her fault
she texted me on Wednesday saying hey I’m in town are you around
my only agenda item for the weekend was “do laundry” so I said hell yeah and of course you can stay with me
I would like to point out that at this point on Wednesday I had no idea where she was even living or traveling from
pointless details honestly
she’s pretty self-sufficient
and she brought a giant thing of gingersnaps because she knows what’s up
her only flaw is that she’s a morning person
however
when she said “want to come out to a farm for a pancake breakfast and then go get pizza in New Haven you’d have to wake up early but it’ll be fun” I said “fuck it, sure”
.........
are you beginning to see how I get myself into situations I can’t fully explain
so I booked a ticket
without actually looking at what farm we were going to
why would I need that information?? I don’t, that’s why
“we’re taking a zipcar from the bronx”
I didn’t bother to ask who “we” was
we have a lot of the same friends
case in point
I ran into my coworker on the elevator and was like “ugh I have to wake up early tomorrow because [friend] is in town--do you know her?--and we’re going to this farm--”
coworker goes “oh you’re going on that too!!!”
I work with people who I know from outside of work and are in the same basic friends group listen it makes sense
anyway I found out from my coworker on the elevator who was even going on this trip. luckily I knew the other girl and she’s rad
at that point we had interacted for 5 minutes once and that was it but it was great! I like her! this is all fine!
cut to Saturday morning I’m half-asleep and don’t really know where I am (somewhere in the Bronx) (we walked across a bridge) (it doesn’t matter) and the zipcar wasn’t working
which is fine because the garage it was in wasn’t real
it was liminal space. I’m not kidding. there was a weirdly flashing light and a can of axe body spray and concrete and deserted empty abandoned cars and if you had been there with your back to the entrance you’d know what I mean
so friend who rented the zipcar had an extremely angry conversation with the zipcar people while we walked several blocks to the new garage (which was real) and I stealthily took pictures of the skyline because you could see the Empire State Building and I give very few fucks when I’m not the one in charge of organization
then we drove...for some time...I wasn’t paying attention (clearly) while listening to show tunes
I did tell you this story features 4 New Yorkers
arrive at farm
shove pancakes in face
the maple syrup was fucking delicious
that’s how I found out we were at a maple syrup farm
a sugary
I was looking at a pamphlet telling us what the farm was called and I still didn’t know where I was
nor did I care
then we learned a lot about maple syrup
I learned where the fuck I was while posting to instagram, after turning to my friend and saying, word for word “uh...remind me where we are again?”
then we did maple syrup shots tasted maple syrup samples
and I bought maple candy
and my friend/coworker kept doing an impression of a Canadian Maple Syrup Mob Boss that was honestly gold even though you had to be there
this was not even the whitest thing we did that day
because next we drove to Connecticut
another friend texted me during said drive, asking what I was up to
me: ............I’m in a car on the way to New Haven
10 minutes outside of the city they turn to me like “hey you’re good at googling stuff, find out where we should eat”
so that’s the story of how I became an expert on New Haven pizza in 10 minutes or less
honestly giving me a smartphone just weaponized me
the restaurant served birch beer which was honestly good enough for me to love it, but the pizza was also good
and then we drove back to New York
I got home........after 9 pm. and we’d left my house before 9 that morning.
and she left before 9 the next morning, because she is extremely weird. but she barely had to wake me up to gtfo so whatevs
I told y’all she was chill
anyway I slept all day Sunday and did not bother to do laundry even though I was down to one (1) pair of underwear
fun fact did you guys know it’s almost impossible to buy underwear in this stupid fucking city?? TJ Maxx and H&M are close to my work but neither of them bother stocking it except for men’s underwear, because the patriarchy probably
however there’s a K-Mart in the pits of hell
and by pits of hell I mean Penn Station
so that’s why I was in Penn Station after work yesterday and nobody got murdered because they had boots on sale for $12 and tbh worth it
the end
I hope this story was everything you hoped it would be