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I haven't really been participating this year - I've glanced at a few posts, but nothing really has inspired me, however I thought I'd do today's:
Share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (Or a few!) What makes it particularly appealing for you? What do you like in fanworks featuring that trope?

Tropewise, I do like some hurt/comfort.  Show me Bilbo caring for Thorin after the Battle of the Five Armies (of course everyone lives!) and Thorin being bad-tempered and refusing to rest.

I have a strong competency kink, and will often create my own characters to fulfil this.  To go with that I like having a team who will work together - they may have individual strengths and weaknesses, but between them they will get the job done.

If there's a motif in my writing it will be the frequent appearance of food.  Lucas likes cake, any number of characters eat cottage pie, and everyone drinks countless cups of tea.

And I do like a good story, in which characters behave logically.  Not necessarily logic as we see it, but logically within their own world, so that they remain in character.  So that even where the premise is bizarre it works because the world remains intact.  Unless, of course, this is crack, when the illogical is the logical.

Date: 2020-01-27 05:44 pm (UTC)
corvidology: Cuppa from Sean of the Dead ([EMO] CUPPA)
From: [personal profile] corvidology
and everyone drinks countless cups of tea.

I actually have something like this in the tags of one of my Pros stories. :D

Date: 2020-01-28 08:31 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] athaia
My characters do that all the time, but I never thought to tag it XD. At first it was a way to get them together to make plans as a team about how to get out of the crisis of the week (TM), then at one point, I became aware that I had them preparing and drinking tea all the time, and had them make fun of it LOL.

Date: 2020-01-28 09:15 pm (UTC)
corvidology: Lower Slaughter ([EMO] HOME)
From: [personal profile] corvidology

I don't normally tag it in English canons -- it's just a fact of life :D -- but in this case it was a story for The Professionals canon from the late 1970s which was very action packed.

It was a big bang story where one of them was badly injured so I sent them out from London to the part of the countryside I grew up in and it seemed only fair to warn for "excessive tea drinking" and "bucolic countryside."

Date: 2020-01-28 09:32 pm (UTC)
athaia: (Default)
From: [personal profile] athaia
The bucolic countryside is definitely something to warn people about XDD

Date: 2020-01-28 09:40 pm (UTC)
corvidology: Lower Slaughter ([EMO] HOME)
From: [personal profile] corvidology

Well it's difficult to leave once you see it!

I'm from there and [Unknown site tag] lives there so we know what we're talking about. :D

Date: 2020-01-27 06:00 pm (UTC)
stonepicnicking_okapi: okapi (Deerinsnow)
From: [personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi
I think I knew most of this, but it's still nice to read about you.

Date: 2020-01-27 06:54 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] luthienberen
I fully support "everyone drinks copious amounts of tea", it is a mainstay in many fics of mine too x

Meant to add that it is lovely to learn more about you! ❤
Edited Date: 2020-01-27 06:55 pm (UTC)

Date: 2020-01-27 07:27 pm (UTC)
spikedluv: (summer: sunflowers by candi)
From: [personal profile] spikedluv
Competency kink, yes!!!

Date: 2020-01-28 06:13 am (UTC)
silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)
From: [personal profile] silveradept
Competency, tea, and consistency-with-worldbuilding are all things I'm pretty fond of myself.

Date: 2020-01-29 12:51 am (UTC)
tsuki_no_bara: magenta background with "i am fangirl hear me squee" in yellow (fangirl)
From: [personal profile] tsuki_no_bara
everyone on a team having their own thing they're good at and being able to work together to use all their various strengths is the best thing. i mean, leverage. :D i also love recurring instances of eating or cooking - also tea and coffee, because even tho i don't drink coffee i like it when characters do - altho canons with a lot of mentions of food make me hungry.

Date: 2020-01-29 04:15 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] moth2fic
I like the way you express that - Not necessarily logic as we see it, but logically within their own world, so that they remain in character. So that even where the premise is bizarre it works because the world remains intact. Unless, of course, this is crack, when the illogical is the logical.

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