Anonymous asked: Hey, I just saw a post you made about the color au and I've been trying to figure it out for like 2 weeks now. Can you tell me what in the world is going on with it? Thank you!
OK, so. Starting from the beginning.
A long long time ago, in a memespace far far away, Stephanie Meyer wrote Twilight. This has made her a lot of money and was widely regarded as a bad move. @luminousalicorn wrote a piece of Twilight fanfic called Luminosity, which consisted of a world where people were pretty much the same, except that Bella Swan was replaced by a significantly more competent person. Then Alicorn wrote, with persons unknown, the first Glowfic. Initial glowfics consisted of tossing together a character or characters from one or more universes (which may or may not be a heavily fanficced version: I started off reading with Jokers who bear, supposedly, a strong resemblance to the Joker of Batman) into a different universe.
A “standard” glowfic will consist of one or more known characters in a universe, with the story being written by two authors replying to each other, with replies typically between a sentence and a paragraph.
An even longer time ago, and in an even farther memespace, an Oxford Catholic argued at a bar (the Eagle and Child), tried to skip lectures by boring the students to tears, and wrote the Silmarillion. In the Silmarillion, Many Things Happen. No, seriously, @lintamande once told me the story of the Silmarillion during Shabbat. Eight characters from the Silmarillion, Feanoro Curufinwe, rightful king of the Noldor, and his seven sons, Talky, Singy, Fighty, and the rest of the seven …sons of Feanor.
These characters were inserted into an original SF world which we call colors, after the colors of the castes which form the primary social division. Blues rule, Greens think, Oranges care, Greys have bodies, purples do all the work, and reds do all the unclean work, and are themselves unclean. @lintamande made a blog set in this world, @luminousalicorn added it to her stable of AUSJs, Ozy made a blog, and I’ve decided that I’m a perfectly functional blue blogger as it stands, though my mother was a green. We’re all interacting as if we live in this universe, playing with political and social positions through this caste-centric lens.