#fanfic trope asks

[zoopzopp]

Inko Midoriya, AFO, OFA third user

OKAY

slow burn with inko because she is very sweet and I love her and I would shower her with small and big randomness and I would be making painstakingly slow advances and also I would be very shy and try to pretend there are absolutely no romantic feelings in fear of ruining stuff up. Like if I actually met someone like her I would be so obvious and frustrating to the people around us and hopefully not to her. And at the same time I myself would be incredibly oblivious if she were also making moves.

Fake Dating with AFO because the best part of the fake Dating is the chaos that usually happens because of it and I can bet that AFO would be a little shit and try to make things as chaotic as possible and I would be very entertained. I do think that some romantic feelings would end up being involved but if they do I'm pretty sure I'd be able to cover it up easily

Enemies to Lovers with Third because okay listen. The backstory is all there. The setup is complete. You just need to put the characters in place and the world would really be a stage. I mean there were two factions of people in his time and he was with one, so I'd be with the other and we'd meet on the battlefield and fight but somehow not kill each other on sight. And we'd keep meeting. And then BAM lovers.

Send me three characters and ill tell you who I'd rather have a slow burn/fake Dating/enemies to lovers with

[goblins-riddles-or-frocks]

i'll give u two! hurt/comfort & second person narration

Hurt/Comfort

A) Love it. Spend my time combing AO3 for it.

Well. Figuratively. I do not read fic very much anymore lmao so I don’t really do this for any trope. But hurt/comfort is definitely my favorite of fanfic genres. It’s also fairly versatile? Like it could be very literal or more just characters having a Meaningful conversation. And then there’s the question of like whether the hurt and comfort are coming from the same source (ideally they are 💖)

Second Person POV

F) Hate it. Will immediately make me nope out of a fic.

Listen, the only thing I hate more than 1st person is 2nd person lmao. With a caveat that I absolutely adore it in actual published stuff but fanfic simply uses it in a very different way. Like experimental fiction using 2nd pov can be really cool or serve a deliberate artistic purpose. But in fanfic it’s usually just meant to literally self insert yourself and omg nothing gives me as drastic and mortifying of a sense of immediate repulsion.

This also just goes hand in hand with my dislike for like reader fic. Like I don’t judge that other people enjoy it, good for them, etc but I just don’t want myself anywhere near any of the characters I’d ever read fanfic about!

Send me a fanfic trope and I’ll grade it!

[hellbubu]

44 and 54 for the ask game!!

44. Flowers of Romance + 54. Secret Relationship  

ask game

While I love the idea of Kakashi being all romantic and taking the lead in the relationship, he's not the one sending the flowers.

Every morning there's a delivery of flowers to his office.

The whole village gossips about who Kakashi's mysterious admirer might be.

When asked, he says that it's just his boyfriend. That gets people talking even more. Some congratulate a very confused Gai, thinking that he's Kakashi's boyfriend

Every day Kakashi comes home to a sleepy and clingy Sasuke and gently scolds him for starting drama

[this-is-krikkit]

I got an even better one. Fanboy-idol to lovers? ⛸️✨️

okay, i see what you did there....

i'm gonna give this one a B+ because it always works in yoi AUs, but i think i haven't really seen it anywhere else?? it's not such a common trope and maybe that needs to change..... (*coughs in my own levihan yoi AU wip*)

send me some fanfic tropes to grade!

[escespace]

Merlin and Arthur but someone help me I can't get it out of my head:

A threat, Merlin is going to face it, Investigate, fight, yadyadayada... The only solution is to make a deal that, in exchange for keeping Camelot safe for another day, Merlin must give up all the memories of his most precious person.

Obviously after running out of memories of ☆Arthur☆ He doesn't understand the importance of returning to Camelot, why is he still there if Gaius has taught him almost everything he can, Even kilgharrah isn't there anymore. For some reason, moreover, he feels that he often causes the poor physician more problems that should be... And all this without mentioning that before he wanted to see the world, he wanted to explore, to know and who knows? He might even make a name for himself... At least that's what he dreamed of as a child.

Again, why is he still in Camelot?

THEN HE GOES. JUST LIKE THAT

The next day Arthur can't find Merlin anywhere and we all know how he gets. He searches for him, he stresses, he screams... But it is not until night comes and he speaks with Gaius that the old man breaks his facade and Arthur notices the concern, that something is not right. He presses and presses until Gaius finally admits that he hasn't seen Merlin since the previous evening, that Merlin didn't sleep there and that he didn't even know where Merlin had gone.

It is canon that Arthur would immediately lose the marbles. As prince regent he order a wanted party. Nothing can stop him because *the power of the script*

Weeks go by with no sign of Merlin. Search efforts are dwindling as there are other priorities These priorities include certain strange occurrences in border villages.Some of these strange occurrences include a group of knights who were defeated by an entity they failed to see or recognize when they went to pick up an accused sorcerer. In addition, in the town next to that one, an entire family suspected of magic disappeared.

The council agrees that action must be taken or the people will begin to see those signs of weakness when it comes to responding to the law, with a sick king and having faced a mini conquest (I don't remember the chronological order of certain events, apologies); They must make it clear that Camelot is still the same as always...

Then, by the power of the script, the prince argues until he is the one who is designated to command the patrol of knights who will go to the villages in question (for honor, to make the people see him as a prince who executes his own orders or whatever)

Between surveys in the villages, some talks with peasants, follow clues... GUESS WHO THEY FIND?

Merlin has been wandering here and there, posing as a herb seller (because that must be good for something), Coincidentally, he has not left that specific town where the suspicious events occurred (he is that stupidly confident)...

He seems to vaguely recognize the knights. One of them he met in a tavern, another fighting a griffin, another is the brother of someone he met who-knows-where; and the other... He can't remember where he knows him from. That makes him feel strangely dizzy, there is a pressure in his head and there are pits that he does not want to question himself.In all this, Arthur does not stop shouting a thousand and one things at him. How stupid he is, how careless he is, how much work he has put in the backlog while touring every tavern in Albion...

Then Merlin says the three words that put Arthur's world Heel over head:

«who are You?»

[fanaticloser]

I need a tag that says “Fake dating but one of them thinks it��s real and the one who knows it’s fake actually falls for them and there’s angst but they end up together in the end”

[benjaminthecoathanger]

okay, because i saw a poll earlier and i thought the choices weren't clear enough and also the answers i saw to it annoyed me and also i'm curious:

NOTES:

I am including having watched gameplay of a game and not having played it as having watched the source material

In this context if you are writing fic/making art and you are not being commissioned to do so. This is purely for funsies

You getting into something because you saw a post/gifset/video about it and then watched the source material does not count. That's just how you get into new things.

Goncharov does not count because it's not real. I'll break kayfabe here I don't care.

[theminecraftbee]

you know sometimes one of the things the fandom does that i like the least is joke about how certain ccs are "lorephobic" because it basically always ignores the lore they actually are really and visibly doing. like, sure, they may not be doing the lore YOU'RE looking at, but, one, lore doesn't just mean "big overarching server storyline" it can also mean solo stuff. it can also mean 'builds that have story built into them'. it can also mean 'fun little storyline between like two guys'. it can also mean character continuity. it can mean many things. two, "this guy doesn't do lore" is NOT the same thing as "this guy doesn't do the specific lore i personally like and want to see them doing" and i don't always think you guys know the difference. all of this, of course, is to say: hey guys did you know zedaph can canonically time travel,

[whetstonefires]

Hello! For the reverse tropes writing prompts (if this catches your fancy) — murderbot diaries with fake amnesia and Really nice guy who hates only you

this is really not in the spirit of that second inverse trope, but for mb this was the only thing i could think of, and it was very funny.

=

"Gurathin," said Gurathin. "SecUnit, you know it's me."

"I don't think I know that," it said, pleasantly, in an okay but not excellent imitation of its creepy canned dialogue options. "Please present some identification, and we'll see."

Gurathin didn't bother sending his data over the feed again. Murderbot walked away, but left a drone eyeballing him. He resisted the urge to flip the drone off. "Come on," he told it, knowing SecUnit was paying attention. "Let me in."

He watched the SecUnit bend forward slightly to show two of Mensah's kids that it was paying attention to whatever they were saying, and then bend over further to help the toddler up onto a chair. It was just fucking with him now. On the other hand, if the prickly bastard started letting children hug it just to piss off Gurathin, who was the real loser?

It finished spoiling the children and moved over to smoothly de-escalate a brewing disagreement over the punch bowl. Gurathin tried to catch Pin-Lee's eye; she did not cooperate. Gurathin tried to walk through the open door; the hovering security drone took a potshot at him.

SecUnit got roped into conversation with Bharadwaj and her media colleagues. It said something that made everyone laugh. It wasn't scowling. It was faking looking people in the face pretty well; that was just creepy.

It went on like that; Gurathin had never seen it go this long interacting without pissing someone off. Presumably it was venting all of that impulse on him. Ratthi introduced it to his favorite cousin; zi was visibly charmed.

Gurathin goaded the drone into firing two more warning shots before the SecUnit circulated back over to him.

"SecUnit. Come on. You have known me for actual years. I helped you rob a place once."

"I don't recall."

"We met on that planetary survey mission, don't tell me you don't remember that one, it's the reason you're even here." That came out maybe a little harsh, but everyone was letting the SecUnit abuse the power of being entrusted with party security to bully him, he was allowed to be annoyed.

"Oh, were you there? That data must have been lost in a corrupted filetree," it said, with incredibly cutting blandness.

Gurathin groaned. "Okay! Okay. I'm sorry."

It technically counted as a reward when SecUnit stopped giving him the customer service face and switched to the hairy eyeball, which just showed how stupid this whole situation was. It was clearly not satisfied with just that.

"I'm sorry for using your personal name without permission. I wasn't trying to weaponize it or anything, it just slipped out, but I know that's not an excuse and it was a really inappropriate disrespect for your boundaries."

SecUnit kept looking at him. Gurathin knew two other SecUnits now, neither of whom was as supremely weird as this one; that was why he'd started mentally tagging it with its personal name, just to keep things tidy. Of course, if anyone else had done that and made the resulting mistake, SecUnit probably wouldn't have been half so mad.

Gurathin sagged.

"I'm sorry for going through your personal files and using your name against you back during the survey," he mumbled, wishing he kept drones around to control with his brain so he could watch SecUnit's extremely expressive face without having to look at it. "That was really shitty. Rim paranoia isn't a good enough excuse for refusing to see you as anything but a tool of the Company. Okay?"

SecUnit was looking as pained as though Gurathin had stripped naked in its presence. "Yes, fine, you can come to the party just stop having feelings," it said, in its normal voice.

"Great!" said Gurathin. "The spinach puffs had better not be all gone."

"I don't pay any attention to the things humans consume," it said, moving out of his way and taking its drone with it.

"I know," Gurathin acknowledged, rolling his eyes and trooping after it. Ratthi waved enthusiastically at him and Pin-Lee raised her cup in a welcoming toast. Apparently SecUnit's relenting returned him to the ranks of people who existed again. "Believe me, I remember this about you."

[noturlondonboy]

Bishova opinion ask!

Fave fic(s) you’ve read?

Or favourite trope(s) you love to see in a bishova fic?

Favorite fics I’ve read-

Firefly by SheDreamsbyDay on AO3- I’m still reading this one because damn it is LONG but I adore it so so so so so much

Watched as You Sighed Your Name Florence/Alexandra by mayadrinkswater on Wattpad- this one is SO. GOOD. And ends sadly. But I loved every second of it, even if it tore my heart out at the end. Seriously recommended.

Everything that reyeose writes on AO3 ( @yxlenas on tumblr)- the writing is absolutely phenomenal and will rip your heart in half.

Everything by @lauready on Wattpad and AO3!! Especially a huge fan of the bishiva apocolypse story, An Impervious Few. I reread it and cry like every month. Cause what the hell. All of their writing is perfect, please check them out. Dear god.

Favorite tropes in bishova-

Enemies to friends to lovers

Friends to lovers

Enemies to lovers

Slow burn

One fell first, the other fell harder

Forced proximity

Soulmates

Hurt/comfort

Nasty as fuck smut

[goblins-riddles-or-frocks]

Fic trope: Enemies (for these purposes we're talking up to 'has attempted to kill the other' levels) to lovers?

A) Love it. Spend my time combing AO3 for it.

So I’m glad that you specified because people do really use the phrase to describe literally anything at this point. That being said, personally, I feel like if they don’t try to kill each other then literally what is the point?? Honestly it’s just sexier that way. Like it’s not called “minorly belligerent acquaintances to lovers”, they’re enemies.

But that being said I love it! The more toxic and messed up the better tbh? I love it when a ship just has fucking insurmountable baggage, that they either then do get over or simply do not but keep fucking anyway.

My answer re: scouring AO3 for it is once again mostly figurative though because as we’ve established, I don’t really read much fic anymore lol, but also because people’s answer to reconciling enemy or villain ships is usually just to make things weirdly fluffy or to write one or both parties as wildly ooc. But if it’s done well and in character I do really love this trope!

Give me a fanfic trope and I’ll grade it!

[yanhoe]

I don’t think you understand how diabolically down bad I am for Julius.

I’m making him my famous cookies and be all “Juli~ I made cookies~”

But in all seriousness one of my fav tropes of all types is a cruel ruler but is the sweetest to his darling. Love to see it!

Julius will absolutely accept your cookies, in fact, he will want you to hand feed it to him yourself. Any kind of affection, whether it’s acts of service or physical makes him a very happy king—and if you can keep him happy, then maybe there will be less deaths that day. He will not make promises though, he can’t keep them…

“That idiot was practically eye fucking you right before me. Of course, I had to put his head up on a spike to set an example. You. Are. Mine.”

[this-is-krikkit]

Enemies to lovers 💔💜

THIS ONE GETS AN A+++ are you kidding??

it's been one of my fave canon trope forever, from swan queen (dark days) to clexa (darker days) to root x shaw (.... been crying since 2016) and it fits soukoku in my current obsession list, so yeah, i really really have a Thing for the whole redemption arcs through (but not only for) love... im weak for it alright??

and i'm veryyy picky about it, but when it's well done i love to see it being applied to my fave ships who don't canonly fit it!!

send me more fanfic tropes to grade!

[hydrachea]

The primordial sea is going to have NOTHING on the flood that's gonna hit fontaine from Neuvi's crying once Furina dies now that she's mortal tbh

And he won't be the only one crying but honestly? This poor girl has been putting on a constant act for almost 500 years, saw generation after generation come and go, and outlived everyone she could have grown close to except for him - and he was born a long-lived species, she's ever only been human. He loves her greatly and he'll feel her absence every moment once she's gone, but as much as I'd like to say he'll find some way to make her immortal (it's not like he has to play by Celestia's rules, or anyone's) I don't think he'd want to deprive her of her well-earned rest.

So I imagine once that day comes, the rains will be heavy and the sky won't clear for a long time indeed.

[sickiehugs]

Favourite sick fic trope?

AA DIDN'T SEE THIS i will answer now, will most likely turn into a very l o n g list bc i get carried away easily haha plus i am EEPY so i will ramble

so ya, my favorite tropes and also some random scenarios i came up with added to the mix

a is the sickie, i always make a the sickie i have no idea why

When they're on a date and B caresses A's cheek or holds A's hand or anything like that, and it's like so unnaturally hot that B stops being romantic, their expression shifts to one of concern as they move their hand up to A's forehead and feels burning heat.

Cool cloth being gently placed onto A's forehead as they're half asleep in bed, and like 10 minutes later the cloth is lukewarm because the heat from A's forehead warmed it up. B has a bowl of ice water on A's nightstand, they wring out the cloth and re-soak it in cold water and place the folded cloth back onto A.

B going to A's apartment in the afternoon because A hasn't responded to any calls or texts all day. They open the door to A's room and find them out cold on their bed, laying curled up on their side, a puddle of vomit on their mattress in front of their sleeping face. Oh, that's why...

"Guyss, I... p-promise I'm fi--" *collapses*

Every time A blinks, B is in a different spot above them doing different things; reaching to feel their forehead, holding a thermometer, measuring medicine... A starts to wonder if the brief moments their eyes are closed are actually a lot longer than they think.

Sick and overworked A is fast asleep at their desk, laptop still open, head resting on their arms. B takes off their jacket and puts it over A's shoulders. Bonus points if B mumbles "You work too hard..."

B is trying to piece together what on earth made A sick; there arent any bugs going around, neither of them ate any meat recently so it couldn't have been food poisoning, A already got their flu shot weeks ago... In reality, A has been hiding an infected wound from B this entire time.

Bilingual!A is quite delirious and is having a hard time remembering different words in the language they're speaking, and they keep tiredly replacing those words from one language with the other.

It's the middle of the night, and A tried to run to the toilet as fast as they could, but they weren't fast enough. With shaking hands, they open the door to the bedroom and sheepishly wake up their partner and mumble, "B... I c-couldnt make it *hic!* to t-the bathroom..."

A curling up into a tiny little ball in bed, they look so small and B's heart sinks to the floor.

B's eyes widening as they read the number on the thermometer; "Jesus, 104!?!?"

A sending hundereds of delirious, nonsensical texts to their friends, none of which they remember sending.

B entertaining A's delirious rambles, no matter what silly bs is coming out of A's mouth B is like "Yeah...? Mhm...?" with an exasperated smile on their face.

B carrying A to bed, tenderly placing them down as if they're the most fragile thing in the world, like they'd just break if B wasn't as gentle as possible.