trope meme
Snagged from splix, a meme which appealed to me because it's the time of year when I start looking back on what I have written and think about round-ups and things. A list of fanfiction tropes: bold what you've written and italicize what you've considered writing.
I'm not linking my stories individually, but if you are interested you can find them all at Hieroglyfics.
Genderswap: AHAHA. Being Ray Kowalski (DS) and What Fools These Mortals Be (HP).
Bodyswap: In addition to the above, Stranger than Fiction (DS) and (sort of) Double Occupancy (SGA)
Drunk!fic: Oral Sex/The Morning After (HP), Horizontal Mambo (DS), Superego (C6D RPF), The Morning After (Hornblower), Out of Exile (HCL/Wilby Wonderful)...um, I swear I write an occasional story in which my characters are sober.
Huddling together for warmth: Huh. Actually, no. Despite writing avalanche stories in two fandoms. Oh, wait, does sea of waking dreams (DS) count? It's canonical, though.
Undercover in a gay bar: Most of my fandoms don't have gay bars. Alas.
Pretending to be married: Hee, yes! In Want of a Wife (HP)
Secretly a virgin: Nope.
Amnesia: I have always wanted to write this, though!
Cross-dressing: Oddly, even though this is totally not my kink, I have written this in a lot of different fandoms: Ray Likes It Red (DS), Just Different (Wilby Wonderful/Whole New Thing), In Want of a Wife (HP).
Forced to share a bed: The Morning After (heh, both the HP and Hornblower stories of this name!)
Aliens make them do it: Nope.
Wingfic: Learning to Fly (DS)! Hahaha wingfic.
Mpreg: An Eye for an Eye (HP). But only because it was a holiday gift fic for an mpreg fan.
Mistakenly assumed to be gay: Mistakenly? Heh. No.
Let's play truth or dare: No.
Mary Sue fic: Heh. I make personal appearances in Stranger than Fiction (DS), Definitely Not in Kansas (C6D RPF), and A Small Request (HP), and a Mid-August Night's Dream (HP) is Snape/unnamed fanfiction author (although not me; it's intended to be luthien). But the classic Mary Sue is only in an HP drabble written for a Mary Sue challenge.
Aphrodisiacs: Mischief and Madness (HP) - this is a Potterverse version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, so, aphrodisiac in the sense of a "love potion" rather than a "substance which makes you want to have lots of sex."
Curtainfic: No. I tend to write (and read) first-time stories rather than any kind of established relationships.
Hurt/Comfort: Kiss It Better (HP) is really the only classic H/C I have written, I think.
Apocalypse fic: Call This World Home (Wilby Wonderful). Also a Last Night crossover, but that's canon.
Someone has a baby: Nope.
Baby!fic: I interpret this to mean, someone IS a baby, which, also no.
Telepathic soulbonding: Double Occupancy (SGA), that's a soulbonding fic, isn't it. Oh, dear.
Werewolves mate for life: a firm no on this one, despite a handful of werewolf stories.
So it appears that my stereotypical fic would involve cross-dressed people body-swapping while drunk. While I watch. Although I'm disappointed that time travel and tentacles weren't listed.
To add some real content, let me point you to something really cool that executrix linked the other day: model of London made from fruits and vegetables.
Also posted on Dreamwidth where there are
comments.
I'm not linking my stories individually, but if you are interested you can find them all at Hieroglyfics.
Genderswap: AHAHA. Being Ray Kowalski (DS) and What Fools These Mortals Be (HP).
Bodyswap: In addition to the above, Stranger than Fiction (DS) and (sort of) Double Occupancy (SGA)
Drunk!fic: Oral Sex/The Morning After (HP), Horizontal Mambo (DS), Superego (C6D RPF), The Morning After (Hornblower), Out of Exile (HCL/Wilby Wonderful)...um, I swear I write an occasional story in which my characters are sober.
Huddling together for warmth: Huh. Actually, no. Despite writing avalanche stories in two fandoms. Oh, wait, does sea of waking dreams (DS) count? It's canonical, though.
Undercover in a gay bar: Most of my fandoms don't have gay bars. Alas.
Pretending to be married: Hee, yes! In Want of a Wife (HP)
Secretly a virgin: Nope.
Amnesia: I have always wanted to write this, though!
Cross-dressing: Oddly, even though this is totally not my kink, I have written this in a lot of different fandoms: Ray Likes It Red (DS), Just Different (Wilby Wonderful/Whole New Thing), In Want of a Wife (HP).
Forced to share a bed: The Morning After (heh, both the HP and Hornblower stories of this name!)
Aliens make them do it: Nope.
Wingfic: Learning to Fly (DS)! Hahaha wingfic.
Mpreg: An Eye for an Eye (HP). But only because it was a holiday gift fic for an mpreg fan.
Mistakenly assumed to be gay: Mistakenly? Heh. No.
Let's play truth or dare: No.
Mary Sue fic: Heh. I make personal appearances in Stranger than Fiction (DS), Definitely Not in Kansas (C6D RPF), and A Small Request (HP), and a Mid-August Night's Dream (HP) is Snape/unnamed fanfiction author (although not me; it's intended to be luthien). But the classic Mary Sue is only in an HP drabble written for a Mary Sue challenge.
Aphrodisiacs: Mischief and Madness (HP) - this is a Potterverse version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, so, aphrodisiac in the sense of a "love potion" rather than a "substance which makes you want to have lots of sex."
Curtainfic: No. I tend to write (and read) first-time stories rather than any kind of established relationships.
Hurt/Comfort: Kiss It Better (HP) is really the only classic H/C I have written, I think.
Apocalypse fic: Call This World Home (Wilby Wonderful). Also a Last Night crossover, but that's canon.
Someone has a baby: Nope.
Baby!fic: I interpret this to mean, someone IS a baby, which, also no.
Telepathic soulbonding: Double Occupancy (SGA), that's a soulbonding fic, isn't it. Oh, dear.
Werewolves mate for life: a firm no on this one, despite a handful of werewolf stories.
So it appears that my stereotypical fic would involve cross-dressed people body-swapping while drunk. While I watch. Although I'm disappointed that time travel and tentacles weren't listed.
To add some real content, let me point you to something really cool that executrix linked the other day: model of London made from fruits and vegetables.
Also posted on Dreamwidth where there are
comments.