Sometimes before things get better....

So, have an AU meme:

give me a ship/character and a number, and get headcanons/a ficlet/a six word or similarly shortish story/a gifset, edit, or picspam/a fanart/a mix/whatever else I feel like doing for:

1: All night diner at two in the morning AU

2: Art school, museum, gallery, etc. AU

3: Ballet, tap, interpretive, modern, some kind of dance AU (professional dance, dance classes, high school dances, burlesque or stripper AUs, anything as long as dance is involved somehow)

4: Bakery, coffee shop, ice cream place, restaurant, etc. AU

5: Car breaks down in the middle of nowhere AU

6: Dimly lit intimate music club or karaoke bar AU

7: Exobiology AU (the search for and study of extraterrestrial life)

8: Figure skating, ice dancing, etc. AU (elaborate costumes optional but encouraged)

9: Gift shop, knick knack shop, curiosities shop, etc. AU

10: Hipster, punk, goth, etc. AU

11: Hockey AU (ice hockey, field hockey, table hockey, tonsil hockey, whatever)

12: Indie bookstore, record store, comic shop, etc. AU

13: Journalist, news blogger, gossip blogger, etc. AU

14: Kissing booth AU

15: Library AU

16: Masquerade-less AU (vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural beings are known and integrated into society however you want)

17: Merfolk or other aquatic mythical creatures AU

18: Musicians/band/something of this nature AU

19: Nanny, babysitter, childcare, etc. AU

20: Nymphs and nature spirits AU

21: Office job AU (hilarious shenanigans optional but encouraged)

22: Performance artists AU

23: Pet rescue/shelter volunteer AU

24: Queer bar/bookstore/advocacy group/coffee shop/setting of your choice AU

25: Renaissance festival or other historical reenactment AU

26: Sex shop, adult bookstore, etc.

27: Slam poetry AU

28: Speed dating after being single for a while AU

29: Sports/athletic displays of some kind AU (asker's choice on sport)

30: Teachers and/or teachers' aides AU

31: Theatre AU (theatre kids/university theatre department AU, professional theatre AU, community theatre AU, techies AU, local Rocky Horror shadow cast AU, investigating a ghost story in a haunted theatre AU, whatever you want, these are just some ideas)

32: Trans, genderqueer, nonbinary interpretations AU (pick an additional number for the setting, e.g. "32+2" for trans characters in an art school AU. NOTE: do feel free to make the characters trans and/or nonbinary without needing to have it specified, but definitely write trans and/or enby interpretations for this prompt)

33: Upstairs apartment over the used record store AU

34: Vineyard AU (visiting, owning, working at, whatever)

35: Wedding planner AU

36: Xerox machine shenanigans AU

37: Youtube/Vine/Vimeo/video-based social media celebrity AU

38: Zucchini AU (I have no idea what this means either, just do something with zucchinis, okay. take chances, get messy, make up AUs)

I saw this meme on tumblr and I thought fuck it, why not?

( ...then you're a 9.9... )

In today's edition of Hockey or Porn? we have Sidney Crosby:

So, I did an OTP Song Meme the other day and it got me wondering what some of these guys' songs would be back if they met in high school...

( ...i'm the king of wishful thinking... )

Saw this on tumblr and I've been wanting to write some smut, so *shrugs* Under a cut because dick pic prompts.

( ...i was off to drink you away... )

Hockey or Porn? featuring Tyler Seguin a.k.a That Bastard I Was Stockholmed Into Liking:

This is for candy_belle and also because Ovechkin practically makes us write these things about him, honestly.

( ...six-five, two hundred plus and so sexy... )

Today's Hock or Porn? is brought to you by this asshole:

So, I realized I haven't done the AU list meme in a while, so (I crossed out the ones I already did):