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

[citrusjava.livejournal.com]

Ooh, recs! Thank you! I find the way De Nugis works with/between angst and fluff interesting, sounds like it'd be an interesting fic!

A/B/O - thank you for sharing, and trying to help me get it !
IDK, IDK why it's not for me. Some non-con I appreciate very much, though perhaps some of the stuff I'd call non-co-n others would consider dub con, perhaps that's a difference... but no, I might enjoy rape fic, not a lot of obscurity there... A/B/O often involves things I'm touchy about, like - 'men' talking about mt or fighting for me regardless of my own will - maybe it's about - like - most rape fic is personal, for all it is violent... but then so is A/B/O... but things like - some creep in public transportation whispering supposedly seductive stuff in my (POV character's) ear and all I want to do is elbow him and yell a lot and get out of there, run - I certainly don't feel the sexy. Or, like - the whole social structure... for me I haven't experienced reading it as empowering - as a relief of discussing it or even reclaiming it - I just feel helpless and humiliated second hand... I so don't mean that to say that other people shouldn't like it, just that I want to understand the difference better... one main thing is probably that there is no recovery. I need fic about recovery and consequences of rape, I need for it to be a thing and not just erased (personal history thing here) - so the omega kinda getting convinced it's a good idea is strongly creepy for me . And it does bother me that those rapes are socially and biologically not a big deal.... it squicks me.

As for the 'love at first sight' - it probably doesn't work as well for me cause my ship have loved each other for a long time before anything sexual, in most cases -and then it's - *for me* - they love each other and things are sweet and OK, and suddenly one of them decides to rape the other one a lot... I need more of a gradual - reason - perhaps it's like people reading incest for the first time, going for later fics in which fandom is already over the drama of it and the boys are like "but we fight monsters so no big, right? - right - cool" - and new readers being uncomfortable with that.


And aI get that the things that bother me are probably the appeal, for others, I just don't completely get why, how, what.


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

Thanks! Don't know that I can write it, but l'd gladly read it!