#fav tropes

[yoursprettyj]

Oh yeah

New favorite trope unlocked

Twisted Soulmates : Made for each other but canon intercepted

The insane parallels in character arcs got me floored

[0dde11eth]

Another trope i love:

After jaskier confesses his love for geralt, geralt confirms he feels the same way.

But then he starts listing off all the ways that he doesn't deserve jaskier, and how jaskier deserves a better partner and a better life.

Then it becomes a change of roles where Jaskier is the one to tell geralt to shut up.

(And then they kiss)

[hoperays-song]

I love that found family might not be related by blood but protect and trust each other unconditionally, because then they show that love is unconditional. And they teach each other that. They teach each other trust and love and family. 

No matter all the hurt they put each other through, they chose to work through it and to love each other because for the first time there is a family to fight for. A family who accepts them.

[phoebepheebsphibs]

What are your favorite tropes? 👀 And who’s Your favorite turtle?

I have a bunch of tropes that I love, but the first that comes to mind is when all the bad stuff happens to the sunshine character or like when they go out alone and the villain finds them

As you can probably tell from my stories lol

As for the turtles — Donnie is actually my fav (apart from Rise, where Mikey managed to steal my heart)! I haven’t seen many TMNT iterations, but from what I have seen Donnie was always the best/funniest/smartest/most relatable character for me. Also purple is my favourite colour too so of course Donnie for the win.

But when I watched Rise. I was for sure certain Donnie would be my fave again, and I was right — for about ten minutes. And then I instantly fell in love with Mikey’s character. Specifically when he said “Why don’t we let the artist of the crew take a poke at it?” I knew he was going to be my favourite. HE’S JUST SO SILLY AND SQUISHY AND CREATIVE I LOVE HIM AAAAND HE HAS ADHD HE’S JUST LIKE ME FOR REAL

(Donnie is like my second fav from Rise, but to be fair I love all the boys from ROTTMNT so much. That show really changed TMNT for me because before then I kinda actually sorta disliked TMNT… Rise redeemed the franchise for me and now all I can ever draw/write/talk about is turtles.)

[nocasdatsgay]

What’s your favorite tropes?

Fated mates cause obviously

Arranged Marriage/Marriage of Convenience (especially if they don’t like each other at first.)

✨Soft✨ only for their partner.

Sex Pollen

Stoic in the streets, feral in the sheets

Sometimes accidental pregnancy don’t look at me

I’m sure there is more but my mind is too tired to think.

[jlhynde-insanitybrilliance]

[eyelinerandinsanity]

My favourite trope in horror at the moment is a character who is partially to blame for the unsafe situation they are in but never the harm that they suffer from that.

Like in evil dead, the person who turns on the record player is always partially at fault for their blind stupidity, but not for what the deadites do to them or their family.

[roachymochi]

When the weird girl that is really adorable turn into a white and red monster that murder half the named cast 🤍🤍🤍❤️❤️

[cass-foxx]

Call me crazy but my favourite ship dynamic is

Dilf that is madly in love with his wife but she dies and after her death, he grows miserable, cold and depressed or a piece of shit and he also have a past that explains why he is so rutheless and how he acts but I swear he has a good heart X a younger man that is a ray of sushine and brings out the best in him

[lovepersevering13]

The found family trope is the one trope I’ll never get tired of

[nerdygeekypastrychef]

There is a fanfic trope I feel is underutilized and under discussed and I simply won’t have it any longer.

Shy, nerdy, goofy character is secret sex god/goddess.

Discuss

[businesscasualart]

What's your favourite evil literary trope and favourite good literary trope, and if they battled which would win?

YOOOO. Yo. Yo. I’m already so excited to answer this, this is such a good question, even though I’m not …100% sure what this means. If I misconstrue what you’re saying or something I mention doesn’t qualify or you wanna hear about…idk, second favorites, you can totally ask again. I love talking about. Media. oughhh…hmmmm…oh, I’m gonna go on a while aren’t I? Sorry in advance.

Okay, like, any trope that occurs in books? Most of my favorite tropes are the same across any medium. Does like, a character trope work? Like an archetype? Bc I do have a lot of favorite archetypes if they count. They’re usually my favorite kinds of tropes and easier to label as good or evil.

My favorite type of evil character is probably the good ol’ mad scientist. I’m SUCH a sucker for them. Anyone who knows me will tell you.

As for good, heroic character…hm…is strong woman a trope? Like lady knights, buff ladies, the one woman in the military squad that does not get Love Interest-Ed and probably dies….I think it’s kinda a trope, a rarer one, but it’s there.

In a fight, it’s probably easier to guess who’ll win since they’re characters but it still depends to me. If we’re allowed weapons, prep time, etc. etc…mad scientist is probably winning. They tends to have more plot armor too, while strong ladies Usually aren’t the protagonists but more dispensable side characters. Sudden fist fight tho? Idk if it matters what kind of strong warrior lady we go with, mad scientists are so regularly portrayed as having the constitution of a paper bag. I love both tropes sm tho, when a mad scientist is good, when a buff lady is evil, when they meet, when they don’t, when they’re enemies, when they’re friends, when they working for each other, when they’re kissinWho said that

Now, if we mean ANYTHING BUT character tropes uhh. Well thankfully I’ve been watching a lot of Overly Sarcastic Productions, I got some fresh in my mind.

okay…so like…a good plot trope and a evil plot trope? Mmm that’s harder, uh.

Ooo can I say when the bad guy gets a redemption? Power of friendship style? It’s probably a good trope. I love it sm, idc how cheesy it can get. As long as it’s slapdash and not just so the hero can make out sloppy style with the villain in good conscious, I always get incredibly soft about it. If its the hero winning them over with friendship, if they’re just genuinely working for good now to suit their own selfish means, if it’s just the villain realizing “oh…I have Not been as good as I thought.”, if they just get bound by some dare or curse to work for good now, etc. it’s always so fun to me.

As far as evil? It’s harder for me to think of an evil plot trope. I’m tempted say like, the plot twist where a main character was the evil one all along? But I specifically love the ones where THAT CHARACTER did not know it until the twist, due to amnesia or brainwashing or they were a sleeper agent. It IS evil but is it a trope? And also it’s like, a gateway into “redemption of a bad character” but AGAIN. How about “the horrors were manmade all along”? You see some scary monster or some eldtrich god or kaiju or malfunctioning robot overlord and wonder how this happened, and it’s eventually revealed that like “oh. Some scientist had a lot of hubris. Some military group wanted a better weapon. Just some rich guy was curious. Behind the monster was a Frankenstein.”. Pretty good stuff imo. And I think it qualifies as evil. The horror is usually malicious and the creator is usually evil or at least misguided in some definition. Man I’m a sucker for a hubristic downfall…probably why I love mad scientists sm. Or vise versa.

Now, in a fight? I think “the horrors were manmade, humanity destroyed itself, the downfall of your hubris” is absolutely Destroying “bad guy become good guy [brought to you by friendship <3]”. The horrors May be able to be converted but like. Fat chance.

Thank you for coming to my TEDtalk, IM SORRY I WENT ON SO LONG

I kept getting caught between ‘fanfic tag’ tropes (e.g. hurt/comfort, slow burn, fixit, only one bed, major character death, sickfic, etc.) and ‘that’s just whole genre of story’ tropes (e.g. noir detective, military group realizes they’ve been deceived and fighting for evil all along, uprising against big evil corporation, mundane boring guy doing mundane boring job is also an assassin, etc.) so I tried to keep it firmly in the middle, trying to think of normal book tropes. I’m hoping that’s what you meant? But if not, you can ask me again! I want to answer properly and I’ll happily go on again!…actually kinda hoping I got it wrong bc I disqualified so many tropes I adore while writing this, I’d love to rant about them XD maybe keep it more concise on any “next time”s though.

Thank you SM for such a good question! And if you or anyone else has their own they’d like to share, I’d be happy to listen :3c|

[0dde11eth]

I think one of my favorite things in kaer morhen fics is that in every story Lambert is a little shit

he always says something that causes one of the other wolves to smack him upside the head or elbow him in the side or kick him under the table

My Feral little bastard never learns to not be a brat and will always speak his mind 😆💕🥰

[hoperays-song]

I just love it when a gruff parental character does the whole “They aren’t my kid. At least not by blood or on paperwork they aren’t, but in every other possible way, they’re mine. In every damn way that counts, they’re my kid and I will forever love and protect them as such.” rant with tears in their eyes and devotion in their voice and my heart just breaks and heals again every single fucking time.

[kaylasriot]

i can not escape the girboss x malewife allegations. help.

(I SHOULD HAVE ADDED MEG AND HERCULES)

[fratricideknight]

i LOVE taking relationships for what they are in canon (e.g. friends, siblings, teacher and student) and making them as unhinged as possible. they would kill and die for each other, sell their souls and burn the world to the ground, and still there is no romance! not an inkling of sexual desire. only insanity.

bonus points if people constantly mistake them for being in a romantic relationship.