Comments | lyssie: Has it really been that long (yes) MEME TIME

lyssie

Has it really been that long (yes) MEME TIME

Feb 21, 2015 23:21

Flist, I totally broke down and bought paid LJ time tonight for more icons. I figure it's been, like, four years since I last did so, so it totally doesn't count as weak.

Anyway, have a meme (nicked from helsinkibaby)
Pick a number and I’ll tell you my thoughts on the trope you’ve asked me about and if I’ve written it myself, or if I ever would.1 Genderswap ( Read more... )

in memery we forget

Comments 18

lavidaessueno February 22 2015, 07:06:20 UTC

*hugs you and hugs you some more*

How about #21?

lyssie February 22 2015, 20:25:04 UTC

*hugs back*

I definitely like hurt/comfort. Not in the overly gratuitous "person A is constantly beaten up and bloody and person B comforts with healing cock" way. But a lot of the "person A is injured/rescued and person B cares and/or hugs them" type things appeal to me.

So does the emotional side-- a lot of the Susan-James hurt/comfort bits and pieces in Freedom and Necessity, for instance, are like crack for me. Even when they're tearing strips out of each other.

I'm also just fond of people being overly ok with hugging each other. I like hugging, even if there was no hurt before-hand. =D

I think I've written it, though off the top of my head, I can't think of anything specific.

in_the_blue February 22 2015, 07:23:52 UTC

Ha, #24.

lyssie February 22 2015, 20:33:11 UTC

I am highly embarrassed to say that, in certain instances, I love it like pie.

I did, after all, grow up on Anne McCaffrey's magical soulbonding telepathic dragons and Mercedes Lackey and her lifebonds.

The entire concept is ridiculous, but if someone wrote Kara/Sam or Joss Carter/John Reese telepathic soulbonding (or, let's be fair here, pretty much anyone I ship together, which is a long list), I would read it.

The closest I can think of to having written it was Attached, the Sam/Jack SG-1 fic I co-write with karma_aster (one day, we will perhaps finish it, though it was mostly at a stopping point)

mfirefly10 February 22 2015, 08:50:07 UTC

I have more icons than necessary on both LJ and DW because icons are fantastic and there should always be more of them.

lol, I did not know 24 was even a thing. I've seen a lot of AU-soulmate tags on AO3 but I don't know if any of them fall into that category.

Um...#6. Or #5. Or both :)

lyssie February 22 2015, 20:39:04 UTC

24 is an amazing yet highly embarrassing thing. (it has to be done right and I don't know how 'right' is explained, I just know it when I see it)

5 - I enjoy this one in concept, but I'm not sure I've ever written it. I've certainly read multiple versions, some more successful than others. I do like it, for the most part.

6 - the only exposure I've had is painfully wince-worthy tv episodes (Rizzoli & Isles springs to mind). I've discovered I'm not particularly fond of it. Probably because it sort of leans into the whole side of "pretending to be something you're not, isn't it hilarious and also maybe a little non-con with how it forces the person to do things they wouldn't normally" . Hrm. idk. I think I just dislike the embarrassment squick factor.

mfirefly10 February 22 2015, 23:41:20 UTC

I really love 5, too. Though, as you said, some attempts are better at it than others.

Yes to everything you said about 6. I don't know why people are so in love with this idea. Like...it's just kind of weird? Especially since most of the times I've seen it/read it, it's involved two straight women pretending to be gay and laughing it off later on. I'm sure someone has done it well, but in general, I'm just not interested.

lyssie February 27 2015, 23:07:21 UTC

With 6, I feel like a big part of my dislike is that sense that it's mocking the entire concept of people legitimately being gay or lesbian? Even if the ultimate goal is Person A Realizing they're Not Straight, it feels really mocking.

(I'm trying to think up shag or die scenarios now, though. Mostly because I'm bored.)

Thread 5

helsinkibaby February 22 2015, 09:27:45 UTC

More icons are always good! I've loads on LJ and one day I will cave and pay for more on DW because 15 doesn't cut it!

How about 7 and 11?

lyssie February 22 2015, 20:46:09 UTC

I think it was that over the years I've made thousands of the damned things and I was poking the files and going "I had no idea I'd made that icon, why aren't I using it? AuGH, no spaaaace ( ... )

lost_spook February 22 2015, 14:07:39 UTC

#25. It always seems a bit of a random one... :-)

lyssie February 22 2015, 20:48:30 UTC

Bones and Miss Fisher and Torchwood got my back, here. I don't love circus AUs, but I definitely enjoy undercover in circus episodes.

And I love the concept of the creepy 19th-century traveling circus thing.

If it were done well, though, I think I'd love a circus AU.

Never written it, so far as I can recall.

lost_spook February 22 2015, 21:11:27 UTC

It always intrigues me, because it comes up in these lists, but the only time I ever saw anyone actually write it was for trope_bingo, & subverting it a bit. It just doesn't seem an obvious one: "coffee shop, high school, in space, regency romance, okay, now we're all a circus troupe. Have a custard pie!"

Creepy circuses are definitely a thing. Nothing does creepy like some 19th C travelling circus of the right/wrong kind.

lyssie February 23 2015, 23:53:46 UTC

I think part of the difficulty, for me, is that circuses require far too much research. I mean, there's lots of pop culture ideas about them, but I always feel like I don't really know the culture of a circus (though I bet they're all different).

Creepy circuses are easier, though. And, well, anything creepy and 19th-century makes me happy.