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[blue-disco-lights]

Excited to share my submission for the Gallavich Tropes Challenge!

Thank you @its-a-queer-thing for the opportunity to think this story up - this was so much fun 💗 My tropes are: * Lawyer/Client * Jock/Nerd * Party AU (Happy 🎃 !)

And a big thank you to my betas @sweetbee78 & @ian-galagher for eyes and comments and help!

"Running Into You" on AO3

Summary: After spending ten years in a fake, but comfortable, marriage, the time has come for Mickey Milkovich to seek out a divorce lawyer, to gain back the freedom he’s been craving since he was a teenager. After the last bit of paperwork is filed, he can finally admit to himself that he wouldn’t mind getting to know the attractive lawyer who’s been helping him, dorky ties and all.

What he doesn’t know yet, is that his lawyer’s had his sights set on him since his high school junior varsity baseball days.

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[lyndentree63]

Saw a BookTok about how 'there are millions of people in the world but I happened to fall in love with one that doesn't exist' and then it showed a bunch of books including Fourth Wing and people are in love with Xaden? The broody guy with as much personality as wet cardboard?? (This post isn't out here to yuck anyone's yum—if you think he's dreamy I love that for you /gen. This is sheer asexual/demiromantic bafflement about why people go crazy for characters whose sole personality is 'hot, brooding, and in love with me'.)

[constantvigilante]

I love falling in love with my own writing

[trainofcommand]

For the trope ratings: bodyswap!

No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know |

I'm not sure I've ever read a bodyswap fic. I think the idea is probably interesting to me, but I also think I'd be squicked if the characters are using the bodies for things that the other would not want? But if they were both good with it? Then yes!

Thank you for asking!

[skipppppy]

I think she’d respect his methodology

[out-of-jams]

REVERSE TROPE WRITING PROMPTS

Too many beds

Accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss

Really nice guy who hates only you

Academic rivals except it’s two teachers who compete to have the best class

Divorce of convenience

Too much communication

True hate’s kiss (only kissing your enemy can break a curse)

Dating your enemy’s sibling

Lovers to enemies

Hate at first sight

Love triangle where the two love interests get together instead

Fake amnesia

Soulmates who are fated to kill each other

Strangers to enemies

Instead of fake dating, everyone is convinced that you aren’t actually dating

Too hot to cuddle

Love interest CEO is a himbo/bimbo who runs their company into the ground

Nursing home au

[bromeliad-black]

UGGGGH MENTOPOLIS IS SO GOOD AND THIS COMIC IS PERFECT

you’re my best friend.

[not-avril]

The trope I appreciate very much

[bebx]

reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something

[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

[trainofcommand]

ratemytrope.com time

And there was only one bed

No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know |

I like this trope! Especially if it's cold out. And the bed is cozy! And there's longing. And cuddling. And then urgent 'oh my god I can't believe I can have this' sex. Yes. Very nice. (Thank you for asking!)

[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.

[sam-glade]

My favourite trope has to be:

I sacrificed myself to save you. I didn't plan to survive. I burnt all the bridges. I intended to break your heart with my death, but that would be all right, because I wouldn't be around to see you. I pretended that you'll mourn me for a while and move on. I convinced myself I was going down in the blaze of glory. That my deed was appreciated. That everything was going to be all right afterwards, and I didn't need to be there to see it.

But I survived. And now I have to look you in the eye. I have to pick up the pieces of the life I shattered and figure out how to put it back together. If it can be done at all.

[your-absent-father]

I think people misunderstand "x fell first, y fell harder " trope because it's not about like the one who fell harder loves the other person harder. It's just that the one who fell first falls in a graceful way, one step at the time, maybe gradually over a span of time. The one who fell harder smashes trough the air, there's blood everywhere, everything is fine-

[prokopetz]

The real reason your sapient dragon character needs a "rider":

Dragons on the wing are vulnerable to being mobbed by smaller, more agile flyers, particularly in your large rear blind spot, like a bird of prey being mobbed by crows. Having a human armed with a long spear perched on your back helps to dissuade anyone from getting any funny ideas.

Breath weapons are impressive enough on the ground, but in flight they're really only good for strafing stationary targets; trying to use your breath weapon in an aerial dogfight is a good way to get fire up your nose. A real fight calls for sterner measures – and, concomitantly, a crew to aim and reload the cannons.

In today's competitive world, it's not enough to devour a flock of sheep and call it a day if you want to keep your edge. You're accompanied at all times by a qualified personal alchemist tasked with carefully regulating your internal furnace to ensure peak performance, and sometimes you even listen to them.

No dragon of any quality would be caught dead without their valet. It's not as though you can announce your numerous long-winded titles yourself when introductions are called for, can you? You suppose next you'll be expected to pick up the spoils of your conquests yourself, like a common brigand. Perish the thought!

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

feeling called out today

credit: _ADWills