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Dueling tropes
Mar. 1st, 2020 11:15 pmI'm a little late to the game, I think, but this one was just too much fun to skip.
Slow burn or love at first sight: Definitely slow burn. I like to see the relationship grow and change over time.
Fake dating or secret dating: Fake dating all the way! It's kind of a ridiculous trope, but I enjoy it deeply.
Enemies to lovers or best friends to lovers: Best friends to lovers. My tastes can be bafflingly wholesome sometimes.
Oh no there's only one bed or long distance with correspondence: Oh no, this is the first difficult question! Only one bed is so good for fraught intimacy, but having characters write to each other is so cute and adorable, and I feel like in a way it encourages the characters to open up more, given the greater emotional safety yet also greater loneliness of physical distance. I guess I've talked myself into saying correspondence!
Fantasy AU or modern AU: Fantasy AU! I love them, especially when there's enough worldbuilding to bring its own flavor.
Smut or fluff: Hmmm. This is difficult for the opposite reason as only one bed versus epistolary -- I don't feel like either smut or fluff is often a big draw for me by itself, so it all comes down to execution and how many feelings are involved. I guess I'll say smut.
Mutual pining or domestic bliss: Mutual pining. All the mutual pining. I need to find some mutually pining OT3 fic just so I can have 50% more pining in the same fic!
( Cut for length! )
I feel like that last answer is especially ironic coming directly after the previous one: all the misery, but like, only for a few people at a time, please! But that's me for you, I guess.
Slow burn or love at first sight: Definitely slow burn. I like to see the relationship grow and change over time.
Fake dating or secret dating: Fake dating all the way! It's kind of a ridiculous trope, but I enjoy it deeply.
Enemies to lovers or best friends to lovers: Best friends to lovers. My tastes can be bafflingly wholesome sometimes.
Oh no there's only one bed or long distance with correspondence: Oh no, this is the first difficult question! Only one bed is so good for fraught intimacy, but having characters write to each other is so cute and adorable, and I feel like in a way it encourages the characters to open up more, given the greater emotional safety yet also greater loneliness of physical distance. I guess I've talked myself into saying correspondence!
Fantasy AU or modern AU: Fantasy AU! I love them, especially when there's enough worldbuilding to bring its own flavor.
Smut or fluff: Hmmm. This is difficult for the opposite reason as only one bed versus epistolary -- I don't feel like either smut or fluff is often a big draw for me by itself, so it all comes down to execution and how many feelings are involved. I guess I'll say smut.
Mutual pining or domestic bliss: Mutual pining. All the mutual pining. I need to find some mutually pining OT3 fic just so I can have 50% more pining in the same fic!
( Cut for length! )
I feel like that last answer is especially ironic coming directly after the previous one: all the misery, but like, only for a few people at a time, please! But that's me for you, I guess.
