Soulmark AUs!

[melannen]

Talk to me about Soulmate marks! Love them? Hate them? Like them okay in small quantities? Only want a very particular version that you want to expostulate on? Want to like them, except for that one thing that bothers you?

Poll #23640 Actually here

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Soulmark AUs?

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Love them!
15 (15.2%)

Hate them!
15 (15.2%)

Like them, in moderation.
24 (24.2%)

Like them but only when done in very particular ways -
43 (43.4%)

Wish I could like them but there's these aspects that bother me -
13 (13.1%)

Dislike them, in moderation.
6 (6.1%)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
14 (14.1%)

Wish other kinds of soulmate fic were still more common.
13 (13.1%)

At least they started to dilute the torrent of A/B/O soulmate fic?
21 (21.2%)

Am confused by them.
1 (1.0%)

In theory dislike them please ignore all these stories I've come up with
6 (6.1%)

What's your favorite variant on the trope - timers? names? first words? scars? Something else?

What do you wish got done better, differently, or more often? How do you like to see the tropes subverted?

Where do you define the edges of soulmark fic vs. other kinds of soulmate fic?

Any recommendations?

Any fic bunnies you want to share?

Comments

[amaresu]

Coming in 3 days late...

I hate the color one for worldbuilding reasons. There's never any explanation about how people know what colors are which or going through the process of learning or explaining why we bother with dyes and such to begin with.

If the vast majority of people are colorblind then why would the world bother doing literally anything with artificially coloring things? Why is dyeing a process that was ever developed?

Again, how do people know what individual colors are? This is something we have to be taught because all the labels are artificial and just something we all agree to call a hue. It's like in The Giver when Jonas first starts seeing red and he has no idea how to describe how things are changing, the apple just looked different.

(I may have gone through a period of extensional angst as a child when I realized that you an never know exactly what another person is seeing and this is all just agreed upon nonsense.)