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Dec Days : Tropes I Like/Dislike/Want to Try Writing, for Balder12
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balder12asked: Favorite and least favorite tropes in fan fic. Plus, what's a trope you've never written, but want to try?
Tropes I love:
Ooooh. So many. Spells gone wrong, or gone wrong for a character, or just happening - are great. It's interesting to read a character facing new situations, new problems and a new existence, identify or identity they resist. Being dropped into a different place in society, rediscovering their relationships through it, or just going through some in-character crack. Creative curses are interesting as well. I find it very interesting, the different ways people write witches or those who curse, their motives, agency and interests, and who they are.
One thing about this trope - for some reason it's almost always Dean. Where is all the great fic about Sam being cursed in interesting ways?
some recs (mostly it's both fic and podfic:
I don't wan Somebody to Love Me bylazy_daze- I don't wanna give too much away, it's just great
And You Would be a Fool bybadbastion- another really good and fun one I don' t wanna spoil
Speechless bycandle_beck- just fantastically well written
Keep Our Minds on the Sum of Each Other also by LazyDaze - the boundaries between Dean and Sam were never that stable to begin with
And one of the best fics in the fandom,balder12's Mystery Dance
Tropes I dislike:
I don't like AU - there's some great AU out there, but I almost always want non-AU more. Probably since so many AU's make things more normative, perhaps... but also just cause I'm interested in "canon" variations... I might read something unrelated, but that's - not related very closely? Not a fan of hooker fic, mostly . And A/B/O I'm frustrate that I don't get. It squicks me some, but more than that - I don't get the appeal, and want to!
Tropes I might want to Write:
Well, all else aside, choosing by trope - being able to write wonderful fluffy happies, or a really good long road trip story, with the music and the food and sights and music again and *relationships* and so forth, or a good - like, a classic Wincest early season fic...
balder12asked: Favorite and least favorite tropes in fan fic. Plus, what's a trope you've never written, but want to try? Tropes I love:
Ooooh. So many. Spells gone wrong, or gone wrong for a character, or just happening - are great. It's interesting to read a character facing new situations, new problems and a new existence, identify or identity they resist. Being dropped into a different place in society, rediscovering their relationships through it, or just going through some in-character crack. Creative curses are interesting as well. I find it very interesting, the different ways people write witches or those who curse, their motives, agency and interests, and who they are.
One thing about this trope - for some reason it's almost always Dean. Where is all the great fic about Sam being cursed in interesting ways?
some recs (mostly it's both fic and podfic:
I don't wan Somebody to Love Me by
lazy_daze- I don't wanna give too much away, it's just greatAnd You Would be a Fool by
badbastion- another really good and fun one I don' t wanna spoil Speechless by
candle_beck- just fantastically well writtenKeep Our Minds on the Sum of Each Other also by LazyDaze - the boundaries between Dean and Sam were never that stable to begin with
And one of the best fics in the fandom,
balder12's Mystery DanceTropes I dislike:
I don't like AU - there's some great AU out there, but I almost always want non-AU more. Probably since so many AU's make things more normative, perhaps... but also just cause I'm interested in "canon" variations... I might read something unrelated, but that's - not related very closely? Not a fan of hooker fic, mostly . And A/B/O I'm frustrate that I don't get. It squicks me some, but more than that - I don't get the appeal, and want to!
Tropes I might want to Write:
Well, all else aside, choosing by trope - being able to write wonderful fluffy happies, or a really good long road trip story, with the music and the food and sights and music again and *relationships* and so forth, or a good - like, a classic Wincest early season fic...