AU – a world where everything has changed. You get “Coffee Shop AUs” where the characters meet in a coffee shop (you could get that from the title), “High School AUs” where (for example) Ron, Harry, Hermione, Ginny, Luna and Neville all go to a non-magical high school, along with Draco, Crabbe and Goyle, “Pirate AUs” where the characters are all pirates… you get the idea, right?
This is slightly different from AT – alternate timeline, where the world is the same but the timeline has changed. Hitler might have won WWII, or Grindelwald might have conquered Europe, or The Romanians might not have been overthrown by The Volturi, or Anne Shirley might have been adopted by The Barrys instead of The Cuthberts…
A lot of people use AU and AT interchangeably (I am one of them) but they are supposed to have very specific meanings.
I thought that meant there is an AU version of everything; like the Ford Falcon has the AU Falcon, there is an AU version of everything and that this was a very Aussie specific internet rule.
What does AU stand for? (Rule 64)
Alternate universe?
Yes.
AU – a world where everything has changed. You get “Coffee Shop AUs” where the characters meet in a coffee shop (you could get that from the title), “High School AUs” where (for example) Ron, Harry, Hermione, Ginny, Luna and Neville all go to a non-magical high school, along with Draco, Crabbe and Goyle, “Pirate AUs” where the characters are all pirates… you get the idea, right?
This is slightly different from AT – alternate timeline, where the world is the same but the timeline has changed. Hitler might have won WWII, or Grindelwald might have conquered Europe, or The Romanians might not have been overthrown by The Volturi, or Anne Shirley might have been adopted by The Barrys instead of The Cuthberts…
A lot of people use AU and AT interchangeably (I am one of them) but they are supposed to have very specific meanings.
I thought that meant there is an AU version of everything; like the Ford Falcon has the AU Falcon, there is an AU version of everything and that this was a very Aussie specific internet rule.