thegeminisage:

YOU KNOW WHAT THE BEST THING EVER IS? IT’S SOULMATE AUS LIKE GOD DAMN I HAVE SEEN SO MANY ON FFN/LJ/AO3/TUMBLR OVER THE YEARS LIKE:

• the one where you only see color once you meet your soulmate (so you don’t know them until you see them), and it goes away when they die
• the one where you don’t know your soulmate until you touch them
• the one where you don’y know your soulmate until you hear them speak, or hear them speak a certain word; your name, for example
• the one where you get the name of the person in their handwriting on your body somewhere at a certain age
• the one where the first thing they say to you appears instead
• the one where you get each others’ fingerprints
• the one where you get matching marks/symbols/tattoos
• the one where your marks or words that change depending on what’s going on with your soulmate
• the one with the clock that counts down the time until you meet your soulmate
• the one where when you sleep you dream of whatever they’re experiencing from their point of view until you find them, or AFTER you find them
• the one where you can straight up talk to them in dreams until/after you find them
• the one where you form a telepathic/empathetic link until/after you find them
• the one where you share extreme physical sensation until/after you find them; if one of you hurts the other one hurts, if one of you is getting lucky the other one gets a little hot and bothered
• the one where the closer you are to them the more aware of them you become, and you find them playing a hot/cold game; for instance, colors get brighter and brighter the closer you are and fade into gray when they’re too far away
• the one where once you turn a certain age/one night a year you swap bodies with them for one night and you have a limited amount of time to leave/collect clues to their identity
• the one where being next to your soulmate can heal you from things people don’t normally heal from
• the one where only your soulmate can kill you (can you still be killed by age/disease? who knows!)
• the one where reincarnation is also a thing and meeting your soulmate either unlocks or erases memories or your past lives until the next one
• the one where in universes with magic meeting your soulmate activates your powers/unlocks more powerful magic

SOULMATE AUS WITH COMPLICATIONS:

• blind characters who can’t see if the world’s in color or black and white
• characters like x-men’s rogue who literally can’t touch people; characters who have been through trauma who don’t want to touch people
• hard of hearing characters like clint barton who can’t hear their soulmate speak without hearing aids/at all or on the flipside characters who can’t speak; maybe it still works in sign language, or maybe it doesn’t
• people who can’t read/can’t read the language the words on their body are in
• characters like bucky barnes who’ve lost hands and/or had their fingerprints removed
• soulmate clocks that time out in the middle of the crowd; there’s an entire craigslist category for finding who else was there that day with a clock that timed out too
• famous characters speaking to or performing for a crowd and suddenly their world is in color/thier clock times out/etc and every member of the audience pretends to be this celebrity’s soulmate and a cinderella type situation ensues with the finding
• soulmates playing the hot/cold game and they kEEP MISSING EACH OTHER
• insomniacs who rarely sleep, much less at the same time/different time than their soulmate
• soulmate ot3s/ot4s/otmores where you dream in varying people’s povs every time you sleep and get super confused
• people who get sick or injured and frantically search for their soulmate so they can survive
• people who need to be in medically induced comas and their soulmates have to stay away so they don’t accidentally wake them up
• the one where soulbonding is actually a choice and someone chooses to bond with someone they may not know or like to save their lives
• new souls who don’t get memories of past lives because they don’t have one and panic
• muggles/people without powers who don’t get them upgraded or unlocked

COMBINATION AUS:

• the one where you one or both of you have to do all three (see your soulmate, touch your soulmate, hear your soulmate), or all three have to happen at least once between the 2+ of you
• or it’s completely random how you find your soulmate: one of you gets a name and the other gets a fingerprint, one of you has to hear your soulmate and one of you has to see them, etc; particularly useful if you happen to be blind or deaf
• same for characters with disabilities/who have “complications”: they get or find a different way of finding their soulmate, not better or worse, just different

THEN THERE’S SOULMATE AUS THAT DON’T HAVE TO CONFORM TO LIFELONG MONOGAMY:

• the ones where you have more than one romantic soulmate at the same time or you get a new soulmate after the first die
• the ones where people have multiple soulmates of different types and it’s color coded; a red name/mark/etc for love, a blue one for friendship; for the ones where you start seeing color you get a new one for each soulmate
• the ones where some people have romantic soulmates and some don’t, and those that don’t are still perfectly happy anyway, maybe in a relationship anyway, maybe not
• the ones where some people have multiple romantic soulmates who may or may not also be soulmates with each other
• aromantic or asexual people who have soulmates who are not and they manage to work it out
• romantic and sexual people who don’t have soulmates but find happiness anyway, either with someone like them or someone not like them

SOULMATE AUS THAT EXPLORE THE RAMIFICATIONS OF SOULMATES BEING A THING:

• the ones where soulmates are for everyone and get legal aid to help stay together, like if their in-laws try to keep them apart/someone risks getting deported/someone gets drafted/whatever
• the ones where soulmates are super super rare and TECHNICALLY get exempted from shitty things like “people of different races/the same sex/etc can’t get married/have relations/etc” but maybe still face a lot of prejudice and they fight to get those types of awful laws lifted for everyone
• agencies that exist to help you find your soulmate or figure out which soulmate thing you have but some of them are just shams, bonus points for this being in a verse where the thing is exceedingly rare to begin with
• people pretending to be soulmates to take advantage of the laws, for good or ill; the couple who loves just as fiercely as a soulmates who will do anything to stay together, or the shitty people who try to claim they’re mated to people who’ve rejected them so they “have” to stay together
• tabloid mags photoshopping matching soulmate marks or following big legal cases where someone tries to prove or disprove that they are soulmates with someone else
• soulmates in universes where they’re a rarity or rare soulmate types like ot3s in dodging government officials because they don’t want to become lab rats
• people who don’t believe in soulmates until it happens to them, or people who believe hardcore and want to find theirs but they don’t necessarily have one
• little rituals that make finding your soulmate more likely, like shaking hands with people as often as possible, repeating each other’s names after you’re introduced, etc

just give me alllll the soulmate aus ok, give me people finding each other in spite of complications, give me all the delightful plot twists, give me detailed worlds where this changes the norms

feel free to reblog with sources! (or MORE AUS.) a little over half of these are things i’ve seen elsewhere over time and i cannot remember where they are all from

haha or if you’re into this sorta thing you could just take pity on me and reblog it anyway this took an embarrassingly long time to type up oh my god ;;;;;;;;;

captainshakespear:

the spn potc!au that Anna and I spent last night planning whilst watching the second movie:

• so obviously we have Captain Dean Winchester in the Captain Jack role (and his ship is probably called the Impala js)
• Dean’s crew would be composed of various characters such as Frank Devereau as Mr. Gibbs, and Benny and Rufus and Kevin
• also Charlie and Jo (just like Zoe Saldana’s character in the first movie, some of the guys would be like “um are you sure you wanna have women on board that’s bad luck” and Dean’s like “the bad luck would be in NOT having them on board”) 
• the Ghostfacers are totally Pintel and Ragetti and Dean hates them ja feel
• meanwhile, Sam would be Will Turner which creates the same mystery of his origins, and all the controversy and tension when you find out that his brother is a pirate!!!
• and Sam has been pining after the gouvernor’s daughter, Jessica, who’s also kind of in love with Sam, so when pirates come to capture him she lies about her identity and takes his place
• and thus Sam tracks down the pirate in the brig (who he later finds out is his brother omg) and the two of them  embark on a journey to save Jess (and then we get Dean and Jess flirting a lot much to Sam’s dismay)
• Bela, being a character who has betrayed Dean in the past and also steals like but is still a good guy, would totally be Captain Barbossa (also Bela would look super hot as a pirate okay and the scenes with her and Dean arguing would be amazing)
• Tia Dalma/Calypso would be Naomi, who would then have a history with and a vendetta against this au’s Davy Jones, who would be Crowley (since he’s supposed to be in charge of ferrying souls to the next world but clearly is not doing a great job of it)
• Bobby is Bootstrap Bill (not technically Sam’s dad but still a father figure) bc Crowley DID own his soul at one point in canon, and in the second movie Sam would totally do something dumb like try to wager his soul to find the key, and Bobby would totally do something even more dumb by deliberating losing to save Sam’s soul in place of his own
• and finally, Cas is gonna be Norrington bc first of all, he’s agreeable with his arranged marriage to Jess for social standing (bc he likes guys), and his loyalties are kind of torn so he starts off as a respectable member of the East India Trading Company but ends up stripped of rank and has to join Dean’s crew, even though he only does it to bring Crowley’s heart back to regain status
• so yes he and Dean have AMAZING banter that develops into a love/hate relationship for the ages
• and later Cas does help Jess and her crew escape, except Bobby covers them and Cas gets away with her and they all sail off to the Brethren Court
• where Mary is totally the pirate who wrote the Pirate Code
• oh and Lord Becket is Metatron bc they both suck
• anyways ultimately we get pirate King!Jess
• and when Sam gets stabbed after Bela marries them in the middle of battle, Dean gives up his dream he gets Sam to hold the knife that kills Crowley so Sam sort of lives and gets to be the one who ferries souls to the afterlife so a variation on boy king!Sam aw yeah
• and Cas becomes a privateer or something and he and Dean sail off into the sunset~

caswitch:

aus that need to happen: autumn edition

• ‘i got caught staring at my adult neighbour raking up a bunch of leaves in their backyard and jumping into them and now have to awkwardly pretend i saw nothing’ au

• met at a pumpkin patch fighting over the same perfectly round and picturesque pumpkin au

• 'me and my roommate decided to decorate our house for halloween but got really into it, and ended up re-enacting several scenes from nightmare on elm street so loud the neighbours called the police to investigate screams’ au

• 'i ordered a pumpkin spice latte at starbucks and you made a heart with the foam and i decided to drink it here so i can smile at you some more’ au

• 'this stranger on the street corner looks like they’re severely unprepared for this cold weather, here, take my scarf, i was planning on donating it to goodwill anyways’ au

• 'i was unaware that there was an organized zombie crawl going on and i didn’t realize you were in a costume and i screamed in your face because i truly thought i was facing a zombie invasion’ au

THINGS NOT TO IMAGINE UR OTP DOING

aleighx:

• LAUGHING SO HARD OVER THE MOST RIDICULOUS SHIT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, CLUTCHING THEIR STOMACHS, SNORTING AND STRUGGLING TO BREATHE
• Person A leaving tHIGH HICKEYS ON PERSON B (ી(΄◞ิ౪◟ิ‵)
• BOTH OF THEM BEING THE BEST FRIENDS THAT EVERYONE JUST ASSUMES IS A COUPLE AND NO ONe is even surprised when they announce their official bc wtf do u mean u werent before
• GIVINGG EACH OTHER ESKIMO KISSES
• GIVING EACH OTHER BUTTERFLY KISSES
• FIGHTING OVER THE LAST COOKIE
• WRESTLING MATCH ON THE COUCH THAT ENDS WITH ONE OF THEM HITTING THEIR HEADS ON THE FLOOR AND THE OTHER HAS TO KISS THE BOOBOO BETTER
• GOING ON AN ICE SKATING DATE AND PERSON A BEING A KLUTZ THAT KEEPS FALLING SO PERSON B HAS TO HOLD THEIR HANDS BUT THEY BOTH END UP TRIPPING AND LANDING ON THEIR ASSES AND EVERYONE STARES AT THEM AS THEY KEEP LAUGHING
• DOING CUDDLY MOVIE NIGHTS AND CRYING OVER CHEESY CHICK FLICKS
• MAKING FUN OF BAD MOVIES TOGETHER
• BEING THE ANNOYING PPL IN THE BACK OF A MOVIE THEATER THAT TRY TO THROW POPCORN AT PEOPLE
• FIGHTING OVER WHO GETS TO BE BIG SPOON
• NO
• NOW I’M CRYING
• ABORT MISSION ABORT ABORT 
• I DIDN’T NEED THIS

mish-the-quiche:

Can the last like 30 seconds of the last episode of Supernatural ever be Sam watching Dean die and the screen goes black for a second and the Heat of the Moment starts playing and Sam wakes up in the shitty motel room and Dean said “RISE AND SHINE, SAMMY!” and then the credits roll and that’s it. Nothing past 3.11 was real.

pun-rocker:

You know why I love AUs? Because the whole point of them is that everything is changed, and yet these two people are still going to meet and fall in love- that they’re so set in stone and so meant to be that you can change literally everything in a hundred universes and they’ll fall in love over and over again. 

• ONE NIGHT STAND BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF YOUR NEW JOB AND OOPS THAT WAS YOUR NEW BOSS YOU WERE SLEEPING WITH AU 
• DETECTIVE PARTNERS AU 
• UNDERCOVER AU
• PARENTS ARE CEO’S OF RIVALING COMPANIES AU
• PARENTS ARE HEADS OF RIVALING MOB FAMILIES AU
• REINCARNATION AU
• CHILDHOOD FRIENDS WITH ADJOINING HOUSES/ROOMS AU
• THIS IS THE END OF THE WORLD AND WE’RE ALL WE’VE GOT AU

okay but instead of coffee shop AUs

officialtribble:

• Modern royalty AUs
• Accidentally read their diary AUs
• Egyptologists AUs
• Rockstar and groupie AUs
• Book club AUs
• Met at comic con AUs
• Lifeguard AUs
• 1920s con artists AUs
• Running from the police AUs
• Librarian AUs
• Rebels against the government AUs
• Internet friends AUs
• Time traveling AUs
• Struggling artists AUs