#Tropes

[prokopetz]

Oh, so potatoes in your Generic Medieval Fantasy Setting doesn't challenge your suspension of disbelief, but the moment I have the party's cook reach into their pack and pull out a big block of tofu, that's a bridge too far?

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

Reblog if you’d love for people to ask you about your current WIPs

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[orphiclovers]

nothing sexier a character can be named than a number. a guy called zero. 004. 49. oh so you've been stripped of the most fundamental building block of identity to deliberately dehumanize you? was it erased or did you lose your name or did someone else take it or have you never had it at all?

[angstandhappiness]

Interesting

Whenever people try to tell me to ship "moral ships" I like to think about how inherently immoral it is to flirt with service workers at coffee shops where they're obliged to be nice to you so... many coffee shop AUs are like. Immoral. But given that they are a fantasy where this is instant romance without the fear of trapping a service worker in an uncomfortable situation that's tantamount to workplace sexual harassment, I enjoy the cutesy coffee shop AUs immensely.

And that's basically my attitude towards all fantasy. There's lots of things I enjoy in fantasy that wouldn't work IRL. Enemies to lovers. Sudden kisses. Miscommunications in relationships. Codependency. Fight sluts who physically assault each other while emotionally connecting.

Once you start ascribing your morals to the fiction you consume, you tend to miss the issues in even the most innocuous, innocent seeming scenarios. It's easy to judge other people's fictional enjoyment until someone points out your innocent coffee shop AU is romanticised workplace harassment.

But it's all fiction. It's a fantasy. That's why it's fine.

A lack of education around things like consent, healthy relationships, self respect and respect of others, bodily autonomy, etc, has made people think they can rely only on fiction to tell them what right - but that's dangerous. And unsustainable.

[5m1ling-3yes]

Enemies to lovers Lovers to enemies

[knebellindemann]

[not-avril]

The trope I appreciate very much

[uhhsnail]

I love a character raised to be a weapon as much as the next guy. But what really gets me is a character raised to be a shield. Who can’t fathom being needed—or even being wanted— beyond keeping others safe. Who believe they are alive only to insure someone doesn’t die. no matter the cost. Characters who self-sacrifice not because they think they deserve it, but because no one else does deserve it, and it’s their job to protect.

Characters who’ve been told that’s why your important. Your worth something because this other person/ thing is important, and you are here solely to keep them safe.

Bonus points if it’s not a legitimate job they’ve been given. Maybe at one point it was, but now that they are free from it, they haven’t given up that mentality. No one is forcing or asking them to do this, but they need to. They need to in order to be deserving.

[edwardcreel]

reblog if you believe fanfics are as valid as books that were published and sold by authors who write as their main careers. I'm trying to prove a point

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

personal opinion (because this is a conversation I had with my friend) but slow burn can be one shots too. slow burn doesn't have to be exclusive to only multi-chapter works with 50k+ words.

it depends on how you plan your story. if your work is a one shot with 3,000 words in total and the main characters spend about 2,800 words being enemies before they confess their love to each other in those last 200 words, then I consider that a slow burn.

the same can be applied to a fic that is 30 chapter long with 100,000 words too. if the main characters fall in love after only 2 chapters, 6,000 words in then I won't call that a slow burn.

my point, slow burn has more to do with how the story / relationship is planned out throughout the entire work and less to do with word count or how many chapters a fic has. thank you for coming to my ted talk.

[justthatpratte]

All I'm taking away from this is that there are people who thought Jafar was hot instead of gross and I don't know how I feel about that, so I'm just gonna put that one in the vault

[prokopetz]

One of those goofy maid animes, except the viewpoint character isn't the hapless master or mistress of the house, but a regular-ass janitor who ended up on this crew due to a paperwork mixup at the temp agency and can't figure out what the fuck is wrong with her co-workers.

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[the-overanalyst]

it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.