Kinks and tropes memes
I wasn’t online on Friday, being at work, then the pub, then asleep. BUT THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE APPRECIATION ♥ I APPRECIATE READERS AND RECCERS AND OTHER WRITERS TOO. capitu and my_thestral, you made my day!
In other forms of catching-up, I did the trope meme (how could I not?) and notearchiver’s kink meme as well. The kink meme was 10000% harder.
For both of them I noticed the difficulty in navigating apathy versus hate, and more importantly - especially with the kink meme - ‘things I like but don’t love’ vs ‘things I like significantly less, or even usually dislike, but I always remember that one fic that made them awesome’. (Eg wax play vs CBT.) Plus, as the kink meme went on I found myself occasionally going for ‘what I like IRL’ vs what I like to read in fanfic!
AND there was stuff like - men crossdressing does nothing for me, unless it’s used for humiliation (and even then it needs to work in a specific way) or really works the characters’ being into it. Women crossdressing/wearing traditionally male stuff though, that melts my brain. I like smut with fat characters, especially art, but ‘fat admiration’ as a kink isn’t my thing, except loving descriptions of fat bodies kind of shades into that? IDK I AM EASILY CONFUSED.
It was strange giving hurt/comfort such a low score, but it's a narrative kink rather than a sexual one!
For all that, it came out really accurate I think. I managed to always choose one of the the two, even when it was between two massive squicks, which helped.
Anyway, here are my answers for the kink meme:
I’m so happy the different forms of dub-con were separated out. I think it reflects my kinks very well now :D And man, why isn’t there more figging in fic? Was everyone just too intimidated by For Your Own Good?
BTW - no judgement, guys, but since it's come up - can someone else who loves kink in general but doesn't like daddykink give me a HELL YEAH? I have been known to save certain gorgeous smutty kinkfics to my hard drive specifically so I can find + replace "daddy" with "sir". Or "master". ;)
And the trope meme:
Haha, I like how clear my utter lack of shits to give for AUs is.
The top five are accurate for sure. Hurt/comfort and enemies-to-lovers are my top two favourite tropes, no question. Almost all my favourite fics are h/c, and most of my favourite ships are rivalmances, and most of my favourite media has aspects of those things too. Plus I like them best together - for me the preferred hurt person in h/c isn’t a usually-stoic type, like I know some people like them - it’s usually an antagonist but not an outright villain, someone with reason to want to hide their vulnerabilities, and more heroic type who hates them but can’t abandon them providing the comfort. Cue some found family if possible, too :D
I’m surprised amnesia came so high but I do like it - there just isn’t a lot of it in HP compared to some other fandoms, I think. Also it’s… I don’t like the fics where it’s about restoring innocence or whatever, I find that creepy. But when it’s done how I like it, I will love that fic FOREVER.
This was originally posted at http://lokifan.dreamwidth.org/326376.html. Comment wherever you like :)
In other forms of catching-up, I did the trope meme (how could I not?) and notearchiver’s kink meme as well. The kink meme was 10000% harder.
For both of them I noticed the difficulty in navigating apathy versus hate, and more importantly - especially with the kink meme - ‘things I like but don’t love’ vs ‘things I like significantly less, or even usually dislike, but I always remember that one fic that made them awesome’. (Eg wax play vs CBT.) Plus, as the kink meme went on I found myself occasionally going for ‘what I like IRL’ vs what I like to read in fanfic!
AND there was stuff like - men crossdressing does nothing for me, unless it’s used for humiliation (and even then it needs to work in a specific way) or really works the characters’ being into it. Women crossdressing/wearing traditionally male stuff though, that melts my brain. I like smut with fat characters, especially art, but ‘fat admiration’ as a kink isn’t my thing, except loving descriptions of fat bodies kind of shades into that? IDK I AM EASILY CONFUSED.
It was strange giving hurt/comfort such a low score, but it's a narrative kink rather than a sexual one!
For all that, it came out really accurate I think. I managed to always choose one of the the two, even when it was between two massive squicks, which helped.
Anyway, here are my answers for the kink meme:
I’m so happy the different forms of dub-con were separated out. I think it reflects my kinks very well now :D And man, why isn’t there more figging in fic? Was everyone just too intimidated by For Your Own Good?
BTW - no judgement, guys, but since it's come up - can someone else who loves kink in general but doesn't like daddykink give me a HELL YEAH? I have been known to save certain gorgeous smutty kinkfics to my hard drive specifically so I can find + replace "daddy" with "sir". Or "master". ;)
And the trope meme:
Haha, I like how clear my utter lack of shits to give for AUs is.
The top five are accurate for sure. Hurt/comfort and enemies-to-lovers are my top two favourite tropes, no question. Almost all my favourite fics are h/c, and most of my favourite ships are rivalmances, and most of my favourite media has aspects of those things too. Plus I like them best together - for me the preferred hurt person in h/c isn’t a usually-stoic type, like I know some people like them - it’s usually an antagonist but not an outright villain, someone with reason to want to hide their vulnerabilities, and more heroic type who hates them but can’t abandon them providing the comfort. Cue some found family if possible, too :D
I’m surprised amnesia came so high but I do like it - there just isn’t a lot of it in HP compared to some other fandoms, I think. Also it’s… I don’t like the fics where it’s about restoring innocence or whatever, I find that creepy. But when it’s done how I like it, I will love that fic FOREVER.
This was originally posted at http://lokifan.dreamwidth.org/326376.html. Comment wherever you like :)