Oh, it's personal preference! The story in question goes pretty substantially AU, so I'd prefer to set it post-canon - I like stories that fit into canon somewhere, because otherwise I have to take myself out of canon to enjoy them. Hmm, that's hard to explain. But...I love Written by the Victors, it's one of my favorite stories in the fandom. But it frustrates me that it doesn't fit into canon, that it could never happen. I know it never would happen, but I like to imagine that it could; but it's impossible now.
I've written several fics that are set in earlier points in canon because they could slip in between eps without changing anything. But this particular story can't be "slipped in" anywhere (over a non-canonical year passes in the story). Ideally I'd like to keep it vague where it branches off from canon - but s4-5 have too many diverging details to make that possible. I'm thinking of just putting it early s5, but it bugs me to have to decide, and to know that it didn't go like this, that I'm writing something irrelevant to the "true" canon story...
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Date: 2009-02-27 04:28 am (UTC)I've written several fics that are set in earlier points in canon because they could slip in between eps without changing anything. But this particular story can't be "slipped in" anywhere (over a non-canonical year passes in the story). Ideally I'd like to keep it vague where it branches off from canon - but s4-5 have too many diverging details to make that possible. I'm thinking of just putting it early s5, but it bugs me to have to decide, and to know that it didn't go like this, that I'm writing something irrelevant to the "true" canon story...