I’ve reached the point in my Sanctuary obsession where I’m actively trying to give myself ideas.

I was working on my third fic today. It’s a oneshot, will be maybe 10k when it’s done, not sure. I’ll hopefully finish it in the next few days.

There’s an event on 4thewords and so I was thinking to myself “I need a project to make me write everyday so I can complete the quests” and so then I went looking through fanfic AU’s and tropes trying to spark something /facepalm.

You see the problem I have is that 1/3rd of my ship dies at the end of season one. So I can’t easily branch off after that in terms of canon-divergence.
– My first fic (the long one) I branched off from that episode (yay fix-it hehe).
– the second fic (little fluffy oneshot) branched a long time before the show started, during the backstory (in 1888).
– the one I’m writing now probably is set in the same verse as my long fic (a year after it ends).

Which leaves pure AU which I don’t like because the canon is so much part of it for me, with the source blood and the sanctuary, that I don’t feel any inspiration for writing a story without it.

BUT! My browsing today gave me an idea for a potential AU that would still work with canon. In canon they met at Oxford. They took classes together, bonded over science, became friends and then more. However, what if they met differently? I’m thinking something using the arranged marriage trope.

I will have to think on it.