8, 12 and 17 for the fandom asks! :)
8. do you prefer happy, bittersweet, or sad endings?
Huh. I think it depends on my mood and the story. Like, The Lord of the Rings has kinda bittersweet ending and itās perfect. Rogue One has barely any sweetness among the bitter at all and itās perfect. And while I obviously want good things for my favourite characters, sometimes super happy endings feel unrealistic/unearned/overly sappy. You know, the whole Everyone Gets Randomly Married, Bliss and Babies Ever After thing. So I guess... somewhere between happy and bittersweet?
12. if you could change one ending to a book/show/game/etc, what would you change about it?
Hah, I guess I always default back to ranting about PotC, so... Iād give At Worldās End the ending it would have had if Orlando Bloomās contract didnāt specify his character always has toĀ āget the girlā: no one gets randomly married and Elizabeth stays the bloody Pirate King she was always meant to be. People go their separate ways but thereās room for all kinds of possibilities in the future. I know a bunch of people are glaring daggers at this right now, but... meh.
17. are there any tropes you wished were used less often?
Hoo boy. Patriarchal macho werewolves. MachoĀ āalphaā love interests in general. Abusive assholes being framed as (more or less) misunderstood romantic heroes. And related to that, the wholeĀ āpure-hearted maiden tames the wild beastā interpreted as āfemale character patiently suffers abuse from a violent jerkass male character until he one day magically is a bit less of a violent jerkass due to her luuurve (and not because he himself chose to change and atone)ā. AndĀ ālove redeemsā interpreted asĀ āasshole dude wants to get into a girlās pants so now heās redeemed, hurrahā. I mean, basically any trope that puts the responsibility for some dudeās actions/redemption/salvation/whatnot on a woman. And any trope that frames abusive/unhealthy/toxic bullshit as the very height of romance.
(Like, donāt get me wrong, I sometimes enjoy reading about a bit more fucked-up dynamics etc. too, but the important part is the narrative acknowledging the fucked-upness. You know?)