Ultimate Fanfic Trope Showdown Meme
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selenakPicked up from various sources: Ultimate Fanfic Trope Showdown, which had these results for me:
1. Enemies to Friends to Lovers
2. Found Families
3. Rivalmancy
4. Trapped in an Elevator/Snowed-In Cabin/etc
5. Hurt/Comfort
6. Friends to Lovers
6. Loyalty Kink
8. Royalty/Arranged Marriage
9. Fake Dating/Fake Marriage Accidentally Turns Into Feelings
10. Adopting/Raising a Baby
11. Incest
11. Reincarnation/'25 Lives' AU
13.'Groundhog Day'/Karmic Time Warp
14. Espionage AU
15. Seemingly Unrequited Pining
15. Actually Unrequited Pining
15. Amnesia
18. Age Difference (possibly due to time travel)
18. Vampires/Werewolves AU
18. Magical Connection (telepathy, etc)
21. Sex Pollen
21. Fake Out Make Out
23. Role Reversal AU
24. Coffee House AU/Food Service AU
24. High School/Uni AU
24. Soulmate Identifying Marks: Tattoo, Red Thread of Fate, etc
24. A/B/O
24. Selfcest (possibly due to time travel)
Thoughts: Yep, that's me, alright, though there are some tropes here which I downright DISLIKE; they're duly placed at the bottom, and the only reason unrequited pining (actual or imagined) doesn't fare worse is my dislike for coffee house/high school AUs, ABO etc. burning brighter. I actually don't have anything against amnesia. As with so many things, it depends on the execution.
As to the top tropes, thankfully, canon provided for me No.1 in the unsurpassable Londo/G'Kar of Babylon 5. No.2 is most shows of the last ten years or so that I've watched, while 3. is covered by Doctor/Master (also Pattie/Ellen from Damages). My favourite example of 4 remains Beast/Brand when I started to suspect Joss Whedon wasn't just teasing and was actually shipping them. (Though Londo/G'Kar thoughtfully covered that trope, too. *g*)
(What surprised me was that "Friends to Lovers" made it above "Incest", but that's probably due to the fact the last decade or so soured me on the fannish execution of incest pairings, and in some cases the canon execution as well. (Looking at you, Deb's therapist, oh worst ever! And at you, season 3 of The Borgias!) I mean, I AM the Flowers in the Attic generation, I used to go for this stuff with far more interest. But no more, apparantly.
As to the strange numbering, don't blame me. That's the result I got. Possibly because my dislike for the lower half burned so equally. :)
1. Enemies to Friends to Lovers
2. Found Families
3. Rivalmancy
4. Trapped in an Elevator/Snowed-In Cabin/etc
5. Hurt/Comfort
6. Friends to Lovers
6. Loyalty Kink
8. Royalty/Arranged Marriage
9. Fake Dating/Fake Marriage Accidentally Turns Into Feelings
10. Adopting/Raising a Baby
11. Incest
11. Reincarnation/'25 Lives' AU
13.'Groundhog Day'/Karmic Time Warp
14. Espionage AU
15. Seemingly Unrequited Pining
15. Actually Unrequited Pining
15. Amnesia
18. Age Difference (possibly due to time travel)
18. Vampires/Werewolves AU
18. Magical Connection (telepathy, etc)
21. Sex Pollen
21. Fake Out Make Out
23. Role Reversal AU
24. Coffee House AU/Food Service AU
24. High School/Uni AU
24. Soulmate Identifying Marks: Tattoo, Red Thread of Fate, etc
24. A/B/O
24. Selfcest (possibly due to time travel)
Thoughts: Yep, that's me, alright, though there are some tropes here which I downright DISLIKE; they're duly placed at the bottom, and the only reason unrequited pining (actual or imagined) doesn't fare worse is my dislike for coffee house/high school AUs, ABO etc. burning brighter. I actually don't have anything against amnesia. As with so many things, it depends on the execution.
As to the top tropes, thankfully, canon provided for me No.1 in the unsurpassable Londo/G'Kar of Babylon 5. No.2 is most shows of the last ten years or so that I've watched, while 3. is covered by Doctor/Master (also Pattie/Ellen from Damages). My favourite example of 4 remains Beast/Brand when I started to suspect Joss Whedon wasn't just teasing and was actually shipping them. (Though Londo/G'Kar thoughtfully covered that trope, too. *g*)
(What surprised me was that "Friends to Lovers" made it above "Incest", but that's probably due to the fact the last decade or so soured me on the fannish execution of incest pairings, and in some cases the canon execution as well. (Looking at you, Deb's therapist, oh worst ever! And at you, season 3 of The Borgias!) I mean, I AM the Flowers in the Attic generation, I used to go for this stuff with far more interest. But no more, apparantly.
As to the strange numbering, don't blame me. That's the result I got. Possibly because my dislike for the lower half burned so equally. :)
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