Tropes

[meridian_rose]

So, I saw this great bingo meme by somniesperus - it's a sort of twist on trope bingo where instead of getting a card you make fills for, you fill in a card with all the tropes that you (un)consciously write! Smaller fandoms and dialogue heavy are two of mine that closely match their card. Fade to black sex scenes is another trope I use. Under-represented characters feature in original fic (asexual/bisexual/childfree/etc); female authority figures is another. For LotS fic; Cara rolls her eyes (though to be fair, that's canon). Hair kink. Any others you can think of? What tropes do you most write?

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[pristineungift.livejournal.com]

Alrighty then, here are mine:

From a list of Fic Tropes:
Better Than Canon
Dark Fic
Draco In Leather Pants*
Everyone is Bi
Fan Verse
Gender Flip
Kid Fic*
Original Character
Stockholm Schnozzing

Things not on the list, but are recurring themes in my fic:

No One Is The Hero/Shades of Grey

An Opening Scene Description Is Repeated In the Ending/Mirrored Scenes

Start With a Quote, End With a Quote

Rumors and Folk Songs

Everything Sounds Like Knives, And Looks Like Blood

Open Ending

It Wouldn't Be a Party if Nobody Died

Villain/Rare Character POV

Transformation (Yer a Wizard, Darken/Yer a Demon, Kagome/and so on)

Siblingcest (not sure if this counts if it only applies to LotS and GoT)

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*I like to think I avoid this one, but realistically it's in there at least a little.

*Not sure if I really count for this, as only one of my 'kid' stories revolves around the kid. But I've done a Darken/Cara kid twice, gave Jennsen/Haden Renn and Lexi, and done a deliberately trope-y Spock/Kirk kid. So.

I was going to put redemption too, but when I stopped and thought about it, the only time I've ever actually redeemed a villain was in the Blood Trilogy. The other times I just leave them... villainy. (Not counting the fics where the show redeemed the villain before I ever got my hands on them.)

[hrhrionastar.livejournal.com]

You can really spend a lot of time on the trope website ;)

Anyway, here are a few I'm pretty sure I use:

Curtain Fic
Fix-it Fic
Next Gen Fic
Kid Fic

Better Than Canon
Draco in Leather Pants
Alternate Universe
Even Evil Has Standards
Family Drama
Disfunctional Family

And this one, not on the list:
Story Within a Story

[et-tu-lj.livejournal.com]

What a cool idea!

My tropes:
Small fandom
Poetry/Mythology reference
Rare character POV
No one is the hero
Important friendship/relationship outside of the main pairing
Repressed characters who deny their emotions
Fade to black sex scenes
Triangles, where they love more than one person but only act on one
Abuse/trauma in character's past