Snowflake Challenge, Day 7

[john_amend_all]

Day 7

In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (More than one is okay, too.) Tell us about it, tell us why you love it, give us some examples and recs. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I think, on consideration, the presence of a trope isn't as important as what use is made of it, and with what characters. For instance, I've seen a number of other posters who are fond of fake relationships (progressing, one presumes, inevitably to a real relationship). Fair enough, a Jamie/Sam fic with that outline might be fun to read. But I'd prefer a fic with that pairing and not using the trope, to a Ten/Rose fake relationship fic.

That said, I think that Cake!fic counts as a motif or theme, if not an actual trope or cliché (Best not to wonder to what extent it's a kink). Some fine examples of the genre are Mishaps in Butter Icing by thisbluespirit and Just Fruity by primsong.

Returning to more general tropes, It's also nice to see a fic which subverts the usual template. For example, Pollination by Lissy Strata is a very funny twist on Sex Pollen.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

Heh, I'm amused, because you gave me this as a question once, didn't you, and I said I couldn't answer it because it depended on how the trope was used...


Thanks for the rec!

[john_amend_all]

I think I gave you the opposite question: which tropes you didn't want to see again. But yes, very similar :-)

ETA: I think it might still be possible to have tropes one always dislikes, without having tropes one always likes. I can imagine someone disliking the 'AU: coffee shop' trope, for example, to the point where they wouldn't read it even if the story had their favourite pairing in it.