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mardia's journal:
- Post a list of your five favorite acts/kinks to read about. Check out this list if you need some inspiration. At the bottom, add what fandoms/pairings you're interested in.
- Read other people's lists.
- Post comment-fic based off of other people's lists.
1) I talked a little bit about this when I was doing the footie recs list, but "oblivious jerk falls in love, flails helplessly over own inability to treat beloved right" is absolutely my favorite narrative device. it would piss me off in real life, but there's just something about someone who is, in general, an irredeemable asshole, being redeemed by their (often inconvenient) desire to make one specific person happy (e.g. Gianluigi in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell). there's a closely related trope that I also really like, which is a powerful and often amoral person falling in love with someone who does have a lot of ethics. Lex in Moving On, Arthur in Favorite, Miranda in The Lily and the Crown: all forced into ruling the universe responsibly because of their better half's annoying conscience. I think it's something about someone with no other weaknesses being so vulnerable to one person. I love this trope so much.
2) familial devotion. if you've readsarahtales's The Demon's Lexicon and The Demon's Covenant, you know what I'm talking about. Mae and Jamie, hearts in my eyes. and Annabelle's unexpected badassery to protect her children. and, uh, Nick and Alan in general. (Nick is a double whammy because he also falls under beloved trope #1! when he keeps offering to kill people for Jamie, it makes me flail around in joy. he's a total jackass but when he loves you, all he wants is to keep you safe and happy. he's just not very good at the "happy" part.)
3) boys being inarticulate idiots with the emotional intelligence of a brick. I feel like I see this trope a lot in sports fandom because of the stereotype of the dumb jock; the example that comes to mind is Evan in that tragically abandoned WIP about him having a nervous breakdown, who just can't understand Johnny at all. the scene where he calls Tanith and she has to walk him through his own feelings is just amazing.
4) limited third person narrative! oh man, I have such a literary boner for writing that can make me understand exactly what a character is seeing and feeling and thinking without going out of third person. the best part is when you can see how they're misinterpreting events, even though you can only see the facts as they appear to the character. the example of this that I will take with me forever issarahtales's Drop Dead Gorgeous (I have this as a .pdf, so if you need it, leave a comment), in which you can at any given point in time understand (a) that Harry and Draco are hopelessly in love with each other AND (b) why neither of them knows this. I will forever be in awe of the fact that she wrote the entire fic in Harry's limited perspective, and then she wrote a prequel entirely in Draco's. flawlessly. I will never not be jealous of this woman.
5) lunatic AUs. I feel that my track record in this area speaks for itself.
this part is pretty much irrelevant, but my main fandoms right now are football (soccer) rps, tennis rpf, and temeraire
mardia's journal: - Post a list of your five favorite acts/kinks to read about. Check out this list if you need some inspiration. At the bottom, add what fandoms/pairings you're interested in.
- Post comment-fic based off of other people's lists.
1) I talked a little bit about this when I was doing the footie recs list, but "oblivious jerk falls in love, flails helplessly over own inability to treat beloved right" is absolutely my favorite narrative device. it would piss me off in real life, but there's just something about someone who is, in general, an irredeemable asshole, being redeemed by their (often inconvenient) desire to make one specific person happy (e.g. Gianluigi in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell). there's a closely related trope that I also really like, which is a powerful and often amoral person falling in love with someone who does have a lot of ethics. Lex in Moving On, Arthur in Favorite, Miranda in The Lily and the Crown: all forced into ruling the universe responsibly because of their better half's annoying conscience. I think it's something about someone with no other weaknesses being so vulnerable to one person. I love this trope so much.
2) familial devotion. if you've read
sarahtales's The Demon's Lexicon and The Demon's Covenant, you know what I'm talking about. Mae and Jamie, hearts in my eyes. and Annabelle's unexpected badassery to protect her children. and, uh, Nick and Alan in general. (Nick is a double whammy because he also falls under beloved trope #1! when he keeps offering to kill people for Jamie, it makes me flail around in joy. he's a total jackass but when he loves you, all he wants is to keep you safe and happy. he's just not very good at the "happy" part.)3) boys being inarticulate idiots with the emotional intelligence of a brick. I feel like I see this trope a lot in sports fandom because of the stereotype of the dumb jock; the example that comes to mind is Evan in that tragically abandoned WIP about him having a nervous breakdown, who just can't understand Johnny at all. the scene where he calls Tanith and she has to walk him through his own feelings is just amazing.
4) limited third person narrative! oh man, I have such a literary boner for writing that can make me understand exactly what a character is seeing and feeling and thinking without going out of third person. the best part is when you can see how they're misinterpreting events, even though you can only see the facts as they appear to the character. the example of this that I will take with me forever is
sarahtales's Drop Dead Gorgeous (I have this as a .pdf, so if you need it, leave a comment), in which you can at any given point in time understand (a) that Harry and Draco are hopelessly in love with each other AND (b) why neither of them knows this. I will forever be in awe of the fact that she wrote the entire fic in Harry's limited perspective, and then she wrote a prequel entirely in Draco's. flawlessly. I will never not be jealous of this woman. 5) lunatic AUs. I feel that my track record in this area speaks for itself.
this part is pretty much irrelevant, but my main fandoms right now are football (soccer) rps, tennis rpf, and temeraire
