#thank you for the wellwishes 🫂 i’ve stopped running a fever during the day! so theres that

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Ooh fanfic tropes. Alright gimme your thoughts on sex pollen, flower shop AUs, and whatever the trope that first pops into your head when I ask you to think of the most overrated fanfic trope is

(Hope you feel better soon!! 🫂)

sex pollen answered here goddamn we’re loving sex pollen today

flower shop aus! flower shop and coffee shop and bookshop and tattoo parlor aus are all girlfriends in my head. i’d put any of them at a B because i don’t spend my spare time daydreaming about them (characters being in charge of retail businesses always gives me secondhand anxiety 😩) but it’s never a turn-off to see in the tags of a fic. especially when it’s stede in charge and he’s doing something weird as hell with it. flower shop aus specifically are fun bc i think there’s a lot of space there for it to interact with ed and stede’s relationships to masculinity and gender expression. also one other thing i’m sure is out there but i don’t remember having encountered is misunderstandings based on flowers-as-gestures vs flowers-as-products (“what do you mean you didn’t know? i’ve been giving you long stemmed roses for months!” “you said those were freebies!” “you think i go around giving long stemmed freebies to every regular customer in the shop???”)

…..ok the FIRST trope that popped into my head for overrated tropes was “and there was only one bed” which imo isn’t quite fair bc i do think it is a Very Good Trope. but it’s a Very Good Trope in the way broccoli is a Very Good Vegetable—yes it’s popular for a reason and yes i eat it often but why is the hype so disproportionate compared to other vegetables….. spare a thought for the roasted brussels sprout…. the steamed cauliflower……. the humble pea….. B- i think. for both bed and broccoli. but bear in mind all these are the words of someone whose favorite vegetable is eggplant, so