Fandom Snowflake Challenge: Day 10
Day 10
In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (Or a few!) Tell us what makes it work for you, and why it appeals to you so much. Talk about what you like to see in fanworks featuring that theme most. Feel free to include recs and examples! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Reposting my last year's response (which was also the previous year's response) as it hasn't changed. Especially the hair...mmm.
Trope: Cosmic Horror Story, definitely. For me this trope works better in print, because in visual medium there's too much of a tendency to show instead of hint and of course any kind of horror is always worse when you have to use your imagination. Anything where people are beseiged by otherworldly or supernatural forces outside their control, really.
Cliché: Love at First Sight, although I prefer it when people fall for each other but we still see them have to work at it to maintain the relationship. Even if the relationship doesn't work out - I mean, just because you don't wind up with someone doesn't mean you didn't love them, it just means things didn't work out, and that's okay. Rough, but okay. (Gotta be honest on this one: my husband and I had a mutual "oh, wow!" reaction to each other the first time we met, twenty years ago or so. It took a couple years to get his attention, but I was sixteen and he was twenty-three so that's perfectly understandable.)
Kink: Long hair, preferably thick and silky. Mmm. Especially on men. Especially loose and flowing down someone's back. Also, kinky hair-pulling.
Motif: Fairy tale motifs, the aforementioned Cosmic Horror Story, light surrealism (if it's so surreal you can't follow it I don't usually care for it), people encountering each other through multiple incarnations.
Theme: Works that deal with the balance between good and evil. I also like works that don't have a great overarching stop-the-world-from-ending theme but deal with individual people, such as low fantasy.
Format: I prefer prose over other formats. I've always been attracted to words. I can certainly appreciate other formats, but text is the one I gravitate to first. After that would be music, then film.
In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (Or a few!) Tell us what makes it work for you, and why it appeals to you so much. Talk about what you like to see in fanworks featuring that theme most. Feel free to include recs and examples! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Reposting my last year's response (which was also the previous year's response) as it hasn't changed. Especially the hair...mmm.
Trope: Cosmic Horror Story, definitely. For me this trope works better in print, because in visual medium there's too much of a tendency to show instead of hint and of course any kind of horror is always worse when you have to use your imagination. Anything where people are beseiged by otherworldly or supernatural forces outside their control, really.
Cliché: Love at First Sight, although I prefer it when people fall for each other but we still see them have to work at it to maintain the relationship. Even if the relationship doesn't work out - I mean, just because you don't wind up with someone doesn't mean you didn't love them, it just means things didn't work out, and that's okay. Rough, but okay. (Gotta be honest on this one: my husband and I had a mutual "oh, wow!" reaction to each other the first time we met, twenty years ago or so. It took a couple years to get his attention, but I was sixteen and he was twenty-three so that's perfectly understandable.)
Kink: Long hair, preferably thick and silky. Mmm. Especially on men. Especially loose and flowing down someone's back. Also, kinky hair-pulling.
Motif: Fairy tale motifs, the aforementioned Cosmic Horror Story, light surrealism (if it's so surreal you can't follow it I don't usually care for it), people encountering each other through multiple incarnations.
Theme: Works that deal with the balance between good and evil. I also like works that don't have a great overarching stop-the-world-from-ending theme but deal with individual people, such as low fantasy.
Format: I prefer prose over other formats. I've always been attracted to words. I can certainly appreciate other formats, but text is the one I gravitate to first. After that would be music, then film.