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tellitslantI am doing the December posting meme! You can still assign me topics/questions here.
Dec 5: Top 5 femslash tropes forbell
I find this kind of hard because I don't tend to think of tropes and then write or read around them... I just write or read what rings true to the characters. Something that works for one pairing is going to be all wrong for another, you know? (There was a meme going around twitter about looking to see which additional tags on AO3 one uses most often... mine, by several orders of magnitude, is just "Pre-Canon." Shocker, I like backstory!)
But, okay, a few things that I do like:
Enemies to Lovers
I like it when that switch flicks from one type of obsession to another. These often have some dominance struggle in them, which I find a lot of fun to write and to read. Sometimes they're good for really having fun with unreliable narrators, too.
Mutual Pining
I like the angst of when the pining goes undiscovered and the joy of when it gets resolved! This is also one where fanfic can be a very particular vehicle - ie, writing about characters where one is canonically interested in the other, and then getting into the second person's head for what they think is unreciprocated pining but the audience knows better...
Epistolary Fic
I don't know if this counts as a trope, but I have long wanted to write a really good epistolary fic, but never quite been in an appropriate fandom. I love putting the emphasis directly on the character's voice, and just stripping away anything extraneous except what they want to say to the other person.
Huddling for Warmth
Look, any excuse for a snuggle, sometimes, okay.
Hurt/Comfort
Given a very wide definition of hurt, this might be one of my favourites. I just really like characters taking care of each other.
I have no idea what these reveal about my psyche, but there you go :D
Dec 5: Top 5 femslash tropes for
bellI find this kind of hard because I don't tend to think of tropes and then write or read around them... I just write or read what rings true to the characters. Something that works for one pairing is going to be all wrong for another, you know? (There was a meme going around twitter about looking to see which additional tags on AO3 one uses most often... mine, by several orders of magnitude, is just "Pre-Canon." Shocker, I like backstory!)
But, okay, a few things that I do like:
Enemies to Lovers
I like it when that switch flicks from one type of obsession to another. These often have some dominance struggle in them, which I find a lot of fun to write and to read. Sometimes they're good for really having fun with unreliable narrators, too.
Mutual Pining
I like the angst of when the pining goes undiscovered and the joy of when it gets resolved! This is also one where fanfic can be a very particular vehicle - ie, writing about characters where one is canonically interested in the other, and then getting into the second person's head for what they think is unreciprocated pining but the audience knows better...
Epistolary Fic
I don't know if this counts as a trope, but I have long wanted to write a really good epistolary fic, but never quite been in an appropriate fandom. I love putting the emphasis directly on the character's voice, and just stripping away anything extraneous except what they want to say to the other person.
Huddling for Warmth
Look, any excuse for a snuggle, sometimes, okay.
Hurt/Comfort
Given a very wide definition of hurt, this might be one of my favourites. I just really like characters taking care of each other.
I have no idea what these reveal about my psyche, but there you go :D
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Date: 2022-12-07 03:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-12-07 01:24 pm (UTC)