Dec Days : Tropes I Like/Dislike/Want to Try Writing, for Balder12

[citrusjava]

On the Deceber Days meme, 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 great
And 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 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...

Comments

[balder12.livejournal.com]

Spells/curses are a fun trope, because there are so many things you can do with it. Not sure why it's usually Dean who's the victim, but there are some good Sam-centric ones too. I'd rec Filibuster (Sam's cursed to talk without stopping), and And She Was (Sam's cursed with boobs).

I'm not much a fan of AU fic either--there's just so much in canon I want to read about! A/B/O isn't my thing unless I happen to be looking for a very specific kind of porn, but I can understand why other people like it. "Heat" is basically sex pollen, and if you've got a thing for excessively large penises, then the idea of knotting might be attractive. And lots of people like the idea of soulmates or 'love at first sight,' which is built into A/B/O too. And mpreg. Basically, I think it happens to combine a lot of iddy tropes that people enjoy.

I'd love to read an early season wincest fic by you, with lots of rich road trip stuff built into it.