Arguing myself out of the MCU AU ficathon

I did it last year, but my fic went over like a lead balloon* (even the person I wrote it for didn't comment or kudo it- and yes, I checked, they were active on AO3 and a few weeks later had commented and kudoed on other fic gifts other folks had done for them) & my request got defaulted at the last minute (I had done the maximum number of requests & only asked that the story not be a 'downer' so I had hoped I wasn't a difficult assignment). The pinch hitter did their best, but they had little time to work.

I love AUs so I have to talk myself out of trying again. The result is likely to be the same, or worse. I prefer plotty romantic builds over PWPs which seemed to be the community gold standard last year, and I can't do most of the 181 AUs offered. There's a lot of very specific stuff most of which I either couldn't do, or didn't want to do (fusions with fandoms I don't know, specific character specific AU, real life setting I don't know, stuff I just felt no desire to do.)

And then there's the 96 pairings and triplings and *quadruplings*. Hardly any gen, lots of characters I don't know, and among the few characters I'd be willing to write nookie for, most of them are in triplets with characters I don't want to write nookie for. I'm not a random bodies orgy writer, it's just not my thing.

Yeah, ok. There's so close to zero possibility of me getting paired with someone who likes what I write, and about the same possibility of pleasing anyone in the community, and about the same chance I'll get a fic I really like in return.

Ok, good, going back to the RBB which I like so far, and so does Z, and the artist, so right off the bat, that's THREE WHOLE people who will be pleased if i get this baby delivered on time. Instead of thinking about a failathon I shouldn't look at.

BUT IT'S AU.

Quiet down there. Tell you what, keep the list of AUs and later you can choose to write the ones that appeal to you- maybe to fill some of the BINGO you signed up for and HAVE NOT begun. Right? Ok. Heck, combine them... Oh, Circus Werewolf... that would be a COOL AU.

*AFTER the ficathon, a lot of folks who weren't in the MCU AU kudoed the fic, so it's not a bad fic, it's just not what the community was looking for.

(if you're curious it's 'The Heart is for Hearing' a 20,000 word Stony fic with a happy ending)
http://archiveofourown.org/works/4177983

There's no crack, like Marvel Canon Crack.

Whenever I think my fanfic is cracky, I will just remember that Marvel hypnotized 3 Skrull into thinking they were COWS, and then kept coming back to the Skrull cows, with all sorts of scenarios over the years, including *knowingly* sending them to be slaughtered and letting the meat enter the normal market with the result that some folks developed shape changing powers, and let farmers breed them with cattle and let their hybrid offspring eventually become sort of pacifist people who repeatedly get murdered by anti-Skrull sort of like the KKK, and have some of the Skrull cows become dairy cows, and their milk does all sorts of things to people, including brainwashing them into a giant Skrull community and when they get unskrulled because one person visiting is lactose intolerant, and they are all wonderfully healthy and 6 years younger... you know? WTF can I do to equal that?

http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Skrull_Cows_(Earth-616)