#also whatever Jeeves and Wooster have going on in a non-shippy way u feel me?

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What are your favourite tropes in fiction?

I really, really love found family, and also pretty much anything that involves deep non-romantic relationship connections. (Romance is fine, I guess, but I’m not a particularly romantic person and live in a culture that prizes romantic relationships so I love seeing portrayals of happy, healthy relationships in other ways.)

Like, one of my all-time favorite authors is Tamora Pierce, and my favorites are her Protector of the Small quartet. It follows a third-culture kid becoming the first officially-approved female knight in a fantasy land in a few centuries, and of Pierce’s books set int this specific universe, this is the only series that ends with the main character not in a romantic relationship. But she has a circle of friends as well as mentors, and it’s a satisfying ending, and that doesn’t happen a lot in books I read.

Murderbot, which I’m clearly currently obsessed with, is full of platonic relationships. And I just started Avatar on Netflix and I’m only like 8 episodes in but I can just watch Sokka and Katara interact and be like “yup, siblings.”

I’m also often a sucker for hidden badasses. They seem so cute/nice/gentle/whatever, then suddenly OH they can ALSO kill you/control ghosts/invent miraculous tech.