This or That - Tropes Edition β¨
I finally got around to this! @payte, thank you for the tag flower πββοΈβ₯οΈ
I'll do the tagging up here and I'll say... @nova-kim? Hi duck, no pressure, I know we never talked but I see you in my notes all the time and I figured hey, maybe you'll like this! β¨
Slow Burn or Love At First Sight?
As someone raised on Pride and Prejudice and asian TV Drama, I'm saying 100% team slow burn. Especially these days in modern media, cos love at first sight has the tendency to immediately tip into insta lust, which I absolutely detest π
2. Fake Dating or Secret Dating?
No reason really, I don't mind either but fake dating just gives me
that extra hit of dopamine, lol
3. Enemies to Lovers or Best Friends to Lovers?
Now, don't get me wrong - I don't dislike enemies to lovers per se, but
I just personally think it's rarely, very rarely executed well in media.
They're never true enemies - or even truly dislike each other. 85% of
the time it's a female lead that purposefully misunderstands the male
lead cos he's hot and has something she wants or whatever.
Besties, however have never disappointed me so far π
4. There's Only One Bed or Long-Distance Correspondence?
I'll have ta agree with Payte on this - nothing beats the bed sharing.
Idc how they talk or correspond with each other, bed wins 100% of
the time π
5. Hurt/Comfort or Amnesia?
How is that even a question? π Amnesia is a disgusting trope. I hate
it with the fire of a thousand burning suns. Get it tf away from me.
Throw it in the ocean, never to be seen again. Blegh.
But hurt and comfort? Yeah, as an angst girly that is my jam. My first
novel will basically be a hurt/comfort grief romance π
6. Fantasy AU or Modern AU
Eeeh, I'm not really for or against either, but with fanfictions I do
rarely go for fantasy AU's. It just rarely interests me.
I am known to devour a good zombie au, though π
7. Mutual Pining or Donestic Bliss?
First the pining, then the bliss. I want them so disgustingly obsessed
with each other for about 85% of the book that it hurts to read, but
once they're together I want them in luuuurve. Give me all the cute
domestic shenanigans.
8. Smut or Fluff?
Oh, 10000000% fluff. Smut just doesn't do it for me. I usually skip it
unless it's really well written and emotionally rewarding and, most of
the time, smut tends to annoy me. If they fuck once or twice, okay,
but more than that is pushing it and I will be annoyed π
9. Canon Compliant or Fix It?
Depends on what we're fixing! Like the lovely Payte, I tend to stick to
Canon with my stuff and I prefer to read canon compliant stuff unless
it's an AU, but I don't mind bringing a dead character back if they
died or whatever. I myself dabbled in it by bringing Billy Hargrove
and Eddie Munson back in a fic of mine π
10. Reincarnation or Character Death?
I like both! Shock horror, I know, someone that likes a character
death π But a well used and well placed character death can do
so much heavy lifting for the story and give the characters the push
they needed. It's delicious.
But I also do really really fucking love the 'star crossed lovers cursed
to continously find and lose each other inevery life time' SO fucking
much.
11. One Shot or Multi Chapter?
Depends on how long the shot is, honestly. A 15k one shot does
more for me than a 10k multi chapter, so I'd say neither? The word
count is what makes or breaks it.
12. Kid Fic or Road Trip Fic?
Listen, the only kid fics I read are exclusively written by @luveline.
Other than that, I don't want any kids near my fics unless they're
niblings popping by for a visit π
13. Arranged Marriage or Accidental Marriage?
Guys, I'm obsessed with korean isekai webtoon.
THEY'RE ALL ARRANGED MARRIAGES. πππ
14. Time Travel or Isolated Together?
I don't really do time travel (though I do share the doctor who
obsession, lol) but I love me a Lost in Blue stranded on an island
and falling in love situation, so I'm saying isolated together!
15. Sci-Fi AU or Magic AU?
Eh. I guess magic, but that's purely cos I don't really like sci-fi. Not
my genre outside of small exceptions.
16. Body Swap or Gender Bend?
If we're talking fanfictions, I don't really like either. If we're talking OG
fiction....enemies to lovers body swap.
17. Apocalyptic or Mundane?
GIVE ME ALL THE APOCALYPSES!
Seriously, especially me and zombie apocalypse AUs?
We're like this:
