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?

Comments

[et-tu-lj.livejournal.com]

How would you define your triads? I'm thinking triangles isn't really the right word, at least how most people use it. That seems to mean likes 2 people, can't decide, and picks one in the end, which is not at all what I write. For me, it's usually, has strong connections to 2 but doesn't admit love, figures out love is more complicated than yes/no, accepts both are love in their own ways. Not in sexual relationship with more than one though, to be distinguished from threesomes. I write the pattern often enough for it to definitely be a trope for me, but don't know a term that conveys it clearly. To my friends I call it ; it's complicated. lol

[meridian_rose]

We both agree on how triangles work :D
For me Triads would be threesomes with sexual relationships A/B, B/C, and A/B. But that doesn't cover all triangles, like the ones you describe!
I had a discussion and poll once about threesomes and tagging; do you expect A/B and B/C or just A/B and A/C? Do you expect a definite threesome ie A/B/C having sex at the same time(I do for threesome tagged fic).

What you describe is something that I enjoy very much because love and relationships *are* complicated and people are complex! Triangles are dull as I expounded on in a poem once, because there's the "Bad Guy" and the "Good Guy" and the woman is supposed to be with the usually more bland Good Guy (and settle down to be his submissive partner) which doesn't leave room for all the adventures and alternatives that exist in your kind of triangles or my triads, or the sort of things can that can happen if one partner is gay or bisexual or asexual, etc :D

We definitely need more terms for these things. Some people whine about having to learn new labels but we need them to facilitate these kind of discussions beyond "it's complicated" :D
I'm going to go away and think about it some more! :D