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shallowness) wrote2013-03-10 06:17 pm
shallowness) wrote2013-03-10 06:17 pm
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these are a few of my favourite things
I give you four tropes I love:
The perfect gift. This probably has to do with my gift-giving anxiety, but when character X gives character Y a quirky, unique present that shows they’ve been paying attention to what they like, I melt into a puddle (classic examples: Beast gives Belle A LIBRARY, Weiss giving Sydney a non-existent third edition of Alice in Wonderland, the flours in Stranger than Fiction...) I love this trope if it’s platonic/friendshippy, has a hint of more or is blatantly more.
Amnesia. If it allows a character to act OOC and re-evaluate or play with their relationships (especially to admit to and act on an attraction they wouldn’t if they were their own selves), great. If it goes darker and has a character re-evaluate who they are and what they learn they’ve done, also great. If it involves a guy with superpowers going off and doing shirtless cage-fighting, I melt.
AU. Putting anything IN SPACE gives your house an automatic five points – I’m thinking fic here. But really, put a period canon in the modern day, and I love to watch how the writer translates things (in watching The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, I often come back to Clueless, which did this brilliantly). I also like the ‘what if?’ which is such a big driver of fic. I love this in canon too, the element of playfulness, of role reversal, of shaking up the norm. Shows that have an animated episode (Farscape), a musical episode (BtVS) or an animated musical episode (oh, Community) are dear to my heart.
Fake relationship/Pretending to be a couple. I looooooooooooove this. Yes, because it shortcuts characters into fake intimacy, multiplying the UST, giving characters who don’t have it a glimpse into normality/stability and there’s the interplay between truth and lies. It can be for whatever reason: spies on a job (especially if one of them is more of a spy than the other) or to make someone jealous (Sky High flirted with this).
Generally though, I have a lot of tolerance for tropefic and for the use of clichés in genre shows in particular, which can include subversion
The perfect gift. This probably has to do with my gift-giving anxiety, but when character X gives character Y a quirky, unique present that shows they’ve been paying attention to what they like, I melt into a puddle (classic examples: Beast gives Belle A LIBRARY, Weiss giving Sydney a non-existent third edition of Alice in Wonderland, the flours in Stranger than Fiction...) I love this trope if it’s platonic/friendshippy, has a hint of more or is blatantly more.
Amnesia. If it allows a character to act OOC and re-evaluate or play with their relationships (especially to admit to and act on an attraction they wouldn’t if they were their own selves), great. If it goes darker and has a character re-evaluate who they are and what they learn they’ve done, also great. If it involves a guy with superpowers going off and doing shirtless cage-fighting, I melt.
AU. Putting anything IN SPACE gives your house an automatic five points – I’m thinking fic here. But really, put a period canon in the modern day, and I love to watch how the writer translates things (in watching The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, I often come back to Clueless, which did this brilliantly). I also like the ‘what if?’ which is such a big driver of fic. I love this in canon too, the element of playfulness, of role reversal, of shaking up the norm. Shows that have an animated episode (Farscape), a musical episode (BtVS) or an animated musical episode (oh, Community) are dear to my heart.
Fake relationship/Pretending to be a couple. I looooooooooooove this. Yes, because it shortcuts characters into fake intimacy, multiplying the UST, giving characters who don’t have it a glimpse into normality/stability and there’s the interplay between truth and lies. It can be for whatever reason: spies on a job (especially if one of them is more of a spy than the other) or to make someone jealous (Sky High flirted with this).
Generally though, I have a lot of tolerance for tropefic and for the use of clichés in genre shows in particular, which can include subversion