Dept. of Memes
Frankenstein Meme, Day 26
I dropped out of this lo, these many months ago, but I want to complete it, because I am linear beyond all hope of transcending linearity. So here goes, once more, with feeling.
A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom:
As a meme reentry, this one is difficult for me. I guess that any fic using tropes like “Person A is/will be/must become subservient to Person B because my imaginary society and/or worldview requires it/it’s sexier than consensual erotica/made-up biology For Sexytiems/shut up, it’s cool” would be an immediate back-button for me. I say that, knowing that Your Kink Is Not My Kink, and You Do You; I just wouldn’t read or watch or discuss something like this, which is probably why I haven’t dipped my fandom toe into ABO.
Some folks might take from the previous paragraph that I’d hate Mpreg. Nope. I might not read a whole lot of it because I’m not that interested in pregnancy, period (had more than a couple of negative adventures with pregnancy, as well as one good one), but I’ve occasionally read some very good, emotionally riveting stuff using that trope, so it doesn’t count.
One thing that I just can’t abide, although I’m not sure it counts as a trope, is any plot that hates a particular character so much that the story revolves around, or has much of its plot reflect, every other character’s hate for that one.
One that’s definitely in the same church and almost the same pew, is when the hate focuses on a canon ship, with one member of that ship being knocked off and/or bad-mouthed by the writer, so that their preferred ship can go ahead. I recall back-buttoning out of a Sherlock story for that reason many years ago, and kind of back-buttoning away from the author’s stuff in general, which is probably my loss, but damn, yeah, I hate that. This entry was originally posted at https://kaffy-r.dreamwidth.org/818801.html?mode=reply, where there are currently
comments. You can comment there or here, but prefer to read over on DW. You can comment there using open ID if you don't have a DW account.
I dropped out of this lo, these many months ago, but I want to complete it, because I am linear beyond all hope of transcending linearity. So here goes, once more, with feeling.
A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom:
As a meme reentry, this one is difficult for me. I guess that any fic using tropes like “Person A is/will be/must become subservient to Person B because my imaginary society and/or worldview requires it/it’s sexier than consensual erotica/made-up biology For Sexytiems/shut up, it’s cool” would be an immediate back-button for me. I say that, knowing that Your Kink Is Not My Kink, and You Do You; I just wouldn’t read or watch or discuss something like this, which is probably why I haven’t dipped my fandom toe into ABO.
Some folks might take from the previous paragraph that I’d hate Mpreg. Nope. I might not read a whole lot of it because I’m not that interested in pregnancy, period (had more than a couple of negative adventures with pregnancy, as well as one good one), but I’ve occasionally read some very good, emotionally riveting stuff using that trope, so it doesn’t count.
One thing that I just can’t abide, although I’m not sure it counts as a trope, is any plot that hates a particular character so much that the story revolves around, or has much of its plot reflect, every other character’s hate for that one.
One that’s definitely in the same church and almost the same pew, is when the hate focuses on a canon ship, with one member of that ship being knocked off and/or bad-mouthed by the writer, so that their preferred ship can go ahead. I recall back-buttoning out of a Sherlock story for that reason many years ago, and kind of back-buttoning away from the author’s stuff in general, which is probably my loss, but damn, yeah, I hate that. This entry was originally posted at https://kaffy-r.dreamwidth.org/818801.html?mode=reply, where there are currently
comments. You can comment there or here, but prefer to read over on DW. You can comment there using open ID if you don't have a DW account.