john_amend_all ([personal profile] john_amend_all) wrote2013-01-09 08:58 pm
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Fanfic clichés meme, and a writing question

Memed (with a certain amount of delay) from [personal profile] justice_turtle:

Pick a trope from this list and provide a fandom/pairing/moresome and I’ll tell you something about the story I’d write for that combination (i.e. write a snippet from the story or write not!fic or tell you the title and summary for the story I would write).

  1. genderswap/sexswap
  2. bodyswap
  3. drunk!fic
  4. huddling for warmth
  5. pretending to be married
  6. secretly a virgin / asexual
  7. amnesia
  8. cross-dressing
  9. forced to share a bed
  10. truth or dare
  11. historical AU (specify an era or make me pick one)
  12. accidental-baby-acquisition
  13. apocalypse fic
  14. telepathy
  15. High School / College AU

While I'm on the subject, a thought is exercising me concerning that variety of bodyswap where the two characters are of opposite biological sexes. I've read one or two, and found myself stumbling over the pronouns. Taking (say) a male character temporarily occupying a woman's body, which pronoun would you as a reader want to see: 'him' or 'her'?

(I suppose I could take a third option and try to write a fic without using pronouns, but that has its own pitfalls).
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