Meme: Fun with Tropes

[angelita26]

Elr posted this and it looked like fun! :)

Give me a number or three and I'll tell you what I think of the trope, and if I've written the trope. If I have, I'll link you to the fic. If I haven't written the trope and I like the trope, I'll write a snippet or drabble

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[daria234]

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[angelita26]

I love AUs, but this is one that I have a hard time with. I'm not much for past time periods - I think there were interesting events that happened in the past, but I wouldn't want live in any previous time, and I don't usually read about past time periods.

I've been trying to figure out why this is, and I think it goes back to being taught history is the most boring way possible: memorize dates and events. I swear I have a mental block about it. On the other hand, I love the possibilities of the future - I've always leaned more toward futuristic scifi and less toward movies/tv that take place in the past.

[daria234]

Cool! Thanks for the answer. I like historical AUs a lot but only when they have to do with like the history of art or literature or science or something - like I don't have interest in the things that history buffs like such as Civil War AUs or WWII AUs, etc., for a lot of the same reasons - I didn't enjoy history class much lol.

[cookielaura]

7 :)

[angelita26]

Ooooh... this one is interesting. I don't fully understand it. I've read a few fics about this, and I can only think of one where I could suspend disbelief that the characters were pretending to be married for a legitimate reason. And it was only 1/2 of the couple that had to pretend, the other believed it through head trauma-induced amnesia. It was also written from the amnesiac's POV, so there was an added bonus of the audience not knowing if it was pretend or real for a while either.

Anywho, I digress. I'll think about it and see how I can spin it in my head for White Collar :)

[cookielaura]

Ooh that sounds like a really interesting fic!

I guess some of the time if people are going undercover then they might need to pretend to be married, like Diana and Clinton on that adoption episode of White Collar? But yeah, there aren't a lot of other times when it would be a reasonable thing to be doing haha :D

Yay!

[nywcgirl]

9 and what is a Mary Sue?

[angelita26]

Yes! I love amnesia fic! It's a type of h/c that leads to some very interesting emotional hurt for everyone involved - the amnesiac is usually frustrated and upset and trying to make sense of the world they've woken up in, and the partner, friends, and family are all struggling to cope with a person who is not the same person they were the day before. No one knows what to do except hope the memories come back - there's so much story to be had there.

There's one WC fic that fits here: Remains
Summary: A man wakes in a hospital bed with no memories while an FBI team desperately searches for one of their own.

Mary Sue is a self-insert character. It's used for stories were there's an original female character that's good at everything and that the 'hero' falls in love with immediately. The assumption is that the writer is writing herself into the story. The male version is called Gary Stu.

[nywcgirl]

Thanks for explaining that.

[pooh_collector]

25 Please - Circus AU!

[angelita26]

I find the circus very fascinating. I can see the appeal as a child, but as an adult, it's a whole other thing. I've never written a circus story, but it's definitely a cool setting

[pooh_collector]

AWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!

I love it!

Great little fic!

So much potential! ;)