Snowflake Challenge #9: Favorite Tropes
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brightly_litChallenge #9
Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)
We just return to the same tropes over and over again, huh? When it comes to gen, I'm into all the same stuff I was as a kid. It's what I love to watch/read and what I love to write.
I went and read a bunch of people's responses to this one in hopes I would get them all and not forget anything, but I'm sure I missed a couple, anyway: H/C, Angst, Bed-sharing, Orphans/Kids Who Have to Grow Up Too Fast, Worldbuilding, Dom/Sub Dynamics, Secret Romance, Bromance, Magic Powers, Reluctant Hero, Chosen by a Higher Power, Pining, Unreliable Narrator, Split Personality, Perspective Flip, Redemption, and Happy Endings. A couple particular to me are when what seems bad is actually good/turns out for the best, and deposed royalty who has to learn to live as a commoner.
Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)
We just return to the same tropes over and over again, huh? When it comes to gen, I'm into all the same stuff I was as a kid. It's what I love to watch/read and what I love to write.
I went and read a bunch of people's responses to this one in hopes I would get them all and not forget anything, but I'm sure I missed a couple, anyway: H/C, Angst, Bed-sharing, Orphans/Kids Who Have to Grow Up Too Fast, Worldbuilding, Dom/Sub Dynamics, Secret Romance, Bromance, Magic Powers, Reluctant Hero, Chosen by a Higher Power, Pining, Unreliable Narrator, Split Personality, Perspective Flip, Redemption, and Happy Endings. A couple particular to me are when what seems bad is actually good/turns out for the best, and deposed royalty who has to learn to live as a commoner.