The trope meme
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auroracloudEveryone's suddenly doing that ultimate trope showdown so here's mine. Not very surprising!
(Oh, and I haven't forgotten that 15 characters meme that you lovelies gave me so many wonderful situations for! I'll be posting the first batch soonish.)
1 Hurt/Comfort
2 Found Families
3 Friends to Lovers
4 Snowed-In Cabin/Isolated Together For Extended Period of Time
5 Loyalty Kink
6 Seemingly Unrequited Pining
7 Polyamory
8 Accidentally Fell In Love With The Mission Target
9 Enemies to Friends to Lovers
10 Amnesia Fic
11 'Falling For A Coworker/Teammate Is A Bad Idea' Except This Is Fiction So It Works Out
12 Magical Connection (Telepathy, etc)
13 Fake Dating/Fake Marriage Accidentally Turns Into Feelings
14 Fairy Tale/Mythology AU
15 'Groundhog Day'/Karmic Time Loop
16 They Break Up (but then They Get Back Together)
17 'Everyone is Evil'/Mirrorverse AU
18 Royals/Political Marriage Turns Into Feelings
19 And They Were Roommates!
20 Adopting/Raising a Baby
21 Reincarnation/'25 Lives' AU
22 Body Swapping
23 Actually Unrequited Pining
24 Unusually Specific Occupation AU, Like, The Author Clearly Has The Same Job
25 Characters Swap Roles AU (I don't mean in the bedroom)
26 Selfcest (possibly due to time travel)
27 Pride and Prejudice AU
28 Daemons
29 Hogwarts AU
30 Supernatural Creature/Human Romance
31 'They All Work In An Office' AU
31 High School/University AU
31 Vampires/Werewolves AU
31 Hot Single Parent(s)
35 Soulmate Identifying Marks (Tattoo, Red Thread of Fate, etc)
36 Coffee House AU/Food Service AU
37 A/B/O
Hee. It probably surprises no-one, and especially not me, that Hurt/Comfort, Found Families, and Friends to Lovers come at the top. Those are probably about 80 % of the fic that I read. Hurt/Comfort, besides pushing my buttons anyway, is also a way for me to deal with my own emotional and mental issues and tough times (one of the reasons I'm more into emotional than physical hurt in those fics, and prefer an emphasis on the comfort). Found Families is a trope I seek everywhere, and most of the shippy stuff I read is based on some variety of Friends to Lovers, because frankly, it's almost the only kind that makes sense to me. I mean that I don't see myself in a relationship with someone who isn't a friend first, or at least definitely friend material, so it's easier for me to read stories based on that. But the occasional spot of Enemies to Friends to Lovers can certainly be delicious with the right characters.
I had no idea I was so into snowed-in cabins, must seek out more of them! I like polyamory in fic because a) then I and the characters don't have to choose if there are several good options, and b) I like reading things that shake up the relationship norms of our society.
And frankly, the fairly high rank of "Accidentally Fell In Love With The Mission Target" can be almost solely blamed on the fact that I've recently managed to see all of the Black Guardian trilogy from the Fifth Doctor era of Classic Who. I found it inspiring. Ahem.
As you can tell, I'm not a big fan of AUs - to be more specific, I'm a big fan of canon divergence AUs ("what if...", fix-its etc.) but not a fan of AUs that change the world the story is set in. Usually when I'm into a fandom, I'm really into the world, and I'm into the characters and find that the world and the characters' relationship to it is a big part of the characters. Say, I'm not hugely into stories where characters from Doctor Who are taken out of the Doctor Who universe, because travels in time and space and encountering weird stuff and how the characters deal with it is why I'm into the fandom. If I wanted to read about a bunch of people running a coffee shop or studying in university, then I would, you know, read/watch stories that are about coffee shops or universities. I'm so obsessive about my fandoms because I want to get away from the world of nothing but offices and jobs.
Though it does depend on the fandom, and how well it combines with a particular AU trope, and how well the said AU is done. Fairy tale/mythology and mirrorverse AUs are considerably higher on the list, because I love fairytales and they're such a versatile form of story-telling, it feels more right to stick whichever characters into a fairy tale situation and see how they deal with it. And mirrorverse things are closer to the canon divergence AU stuff that I love, because usually the basic universe is the same, something's just happened to make a normally good character evil, or something like it, and then it can be really interesting to see how it affects everything.
(Oh, and I haven't forgotten that 15 characters meme that you lovelies gave me so many wonderful situations for! I'll be posting the first batch soonish.)
1 Hurt/Comfort
2 Found Families
3 Friends to Lovers
4 Snowed-In Cabin/Isolated Together For Extended Period of Time
5 Loyalty Kink
6 Seemingly Unrequited Pining
7 Polyamory
8 Accidentally Fell In Love With The Mission Target
9 Enemies to Friends to Lovers
10 Amnesia Fic
11 'Falling For A Coworker/Teammate Is A Bad Idea' Except This Is Fiction So It Works Out
12 Magical Connection (Telepathy, etc)
13 Fake Dating/Fake Marriage Accidentally Turns Into Feelings
14 Fairy Tale/Mythology AU
15 'Groundhog Day'/Karmic Time Loop
16 They Break Up (but then They Get Back Together)
17 'Everyone is Evil'/Mirrorverse AU
18 Royals/Political Marriage Turns Into Feelings
19 And They Were Roommates!
20 Adopting/Raising a Baby
21 Reincarnation/'25 Lives' AU
22 Body Swapping
23 Actually Unrequited Pining
24 Unusually Specific Occupation AU, Like, The Author Clearly Has The Same Job
25 Characters Swap Roles AU (I don't mean in the bedroom)
26 Selfcest (possibly due to time travel)
27 Pride and Prejudice AU
28 Daemons
29 Hogwarts AU
30 Supernatural Creature/Human Romance
31 'They All Work In An Office' AU
31 High School/University AU
31 Vampires/Werewolves AU
31 Hot Single Parent(s)
35 Soulmate Identifying Marks (Tattoo, Red Thread of Fate, etc)
36 Coffee House AU/Food Service AU
37 A/B/O
Hee. It probably surprises no-one, and especially not me, that Hurt/Comfort, Found Families, and Friends to Lovers come at the top. Those are probably about 80 % of the fic that I read. Hurt/Comfort, besides pushing my buttons anyway, is also a way for me to deal with my own emotional and mental issues and tough times (one of the reasons I'm more into emotional than physical hurt in those fics, and prefer an emphasis on the comfort). Found Families is a trope I seek everywhere, and most of the shippy stuff I read is based on some variety of Friends to Lovers, because frankly, it's almost the only kind that makes sense to me. I mean that I don't see myself in a relationship with someone who isn't a friend first, or at least definitely friend material, so it's easier for me to read stories based on that. But the occasional spot of Enemies to Friends to Lovers can certainly be delicious with the right characters.
I had no idea I was so into snowed-in cabins, must seek out more of them! I like polyamory in fic because a) then I and the characters don't have to choose if there are several good options, and b) I like reading things that shake up the relationship norms of our society.
And frankly, the fairly high rank of "Accidentally Fell In Love With The Mission Target" can be almost solely blamed on the fact that I've recently managed to see all of the Black Guardian trilogy from the Fifth Doctor era of Classic Who. I found it inspiring. Ahem.
As you can tell, I'm not a big fan of AUs - to be more specific, I'm a big fan of canon divergence AUs ("what if...", fix-its etc.) but not a fan of AUs that change the world the story is set in. Usually when I'm into a fandom, I'm really into the world, and I'm into the characters and find that the world and the characters' relationship to it is a big part of the characters. Say, I'm not hugely into stories where characters from Doctor Who are taken out of the Doctor Who universe, because travels in time and space and encountering weird stuff and how the characters deal with it is why I'm into the fandom. If I wanted to read about a bunch of people running a coffee shop or studying in university, then I would, you know, read/watch stories that are about coffee shops or universities. I'm so obsessive about my fandoms because I want to get away from the world of nothing but offices and jobs.
Though it does depend on the fandom, and how well it combines with a particular AU trope, and how well the said AU is done. Fairy tale/mythology and mirrorverse AUs are considerably higher on the list, because I love fairytales and they're such a versatile form of story-telling, it feels more right to stick whichever characters into a fairy tale situation and see how they deal with it. And mirrorverse things are closer to the canon divergence AU stuff that I love, because usually the basic universe is the same, something's just happened to make a normally good character evil, or something like it, and then it can be really interesting to see how it affects everything.
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Date: 2019-02-09 09:53 pm (UTC)I guess depending on the source material it changes how intense the enemies are. If it's a sports genre then your "enemy" is just your rival team and there's nothing really preventing you from getting together besides the team you play on. But with something like a political enemy, there are fundamental moral differences between the characters that makes it that much more intense.