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at the end of the day it really all comes down to found families sleeping in big piles huh

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literally NOTHING can compare to found family stories like that trope is the actual physical beating heart in my chest. choosing your family, who you want to love and heal with, who you believe in and viciously defend and trust. forming those bonds on your own is SUCH a lovely, compelling narrative that we should NOT sleep on. thanks.

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Found family really said “Imma let these jaded adults take sad kids under their broken wings and maybe everyone will be better off with a little love and support in their lives.” And I personally find that very hopeful

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No because literally, I need you guys to understand my love of found families teaching each other that love and family isn’t a transaction. 

The way they take time to prove to each other that they care about them, that no matter what they’ll be with them. The way they work through their traumas together. The way they protect each other and support each other without asking for anything in return.

The way that, even if they fight or something bad happens, they’re going to stick together, they choose to stick together and love each other anyway, because that’s what families do.

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I want to see characters being taken care of in an explicit and worshipful way. Home-cooked meals. Hair brushed and braided by gentle hands. Little gifts just because.

I want to read about characters who are not used to kindness being bombarded by acts of service. This trope works romantically and platonically. Give me found family and acts of service - all the ways a character is wrapped up in wordless, explicit care after years of cruelty and having no idea how to handle. I need it.

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When I was little, I loved the trope of “I love them [romantically] but I can’t tell them because I’m scared they won’t reciprocate.” But you know what’s occurred to me? This trope works even better in a platonic/familial sense, because it’s so much less common to admit those types of feelings to someone.

Give me two friends who have to keep biting their tongue to not introduce the other as “my best friend,” because wow, this person really is my best friend but what if I’m not theirs, and best is such a strong word, and will they be offended, and I don’t want to slip up they’re so cool

Give me a completely platonic boy/girl duo who sees each other as brother and sister but not wanting to say so, because that’s a really unusual thing to do, and in so many movies those relationships turn into a romance, and what if people think we’re faking it to “hide our feelings,” but wow I’m really not attracted to them and they’re like a sibling to me

Give me an adult who sees a child like their daughter/son and trying their hardest not to think about them that way, because at least somewhere (if not present), they have biological parents who might love and/or miss them, and I feel like that’s disrespecting them, and anyways how do I explain to a kid (especially a young one) that I love them like they were my own, and I know I trained them and mentored them and even raised them but what if they wish they knew their real parents and just aren’t saying anything to be polite

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…that restaurant, it has, and it does, mean a lot to people. It means a lot to me.

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Happy Halloween :3

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the forger family gains a new member ~

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I need to see a happy aroace life. I need to see a scenario in which the aroace character doesn’t end up lonely and abandoned by everyone because they found a romantic partner. Damn it! I need to see a story of an aroace person at all!

I need to see a bunch of aspec and arospec people living together in a big house and just enjoying their lives.

I need to see a story of an old aroace lady living with her cats and spending afternoons with her besties drinking tea and having the most fun.

I need to see a story of a friendship between aroace and allo person in which even tough the allo one finds a romantic partner the aroace bestie stays the most important for them.

I really need to see a story of an aroace person which has a happy ending. Because right now I’m just afraid that there isn’t one.

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enemies to lovers is out.

enemies to "i would die for you"-friend-soulmates is in.

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my favorite fic trope 

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did the gen tropes tier ranking thing, i fucking love this

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hey guys I made a gen trope tier list

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ah, yes, the three pillars of genfic

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de-aged/kid!AUs

“I can tell you’ve been putting on facades for everybody else for so long now but I see the tiredness in your eyes and I am going to make you take a nap whether you like it or not”