Favourite cliche?

[doyle]

The lovely wisteria_ had a discussion a while back on people's least favourite words in fic. I was thinking a bit about that, and got on to the topic of people's favourite plots.

Is there a plot device or cliche or just a fic subgenre that's been done many times but you love and adore? (From the stuff I've written I think it's fairly obvious I love '___ woke up gay!' Other favourites: someone has amnesia and wrongly thinks themselves in a relationship with somebody else; the couple gets trapped in a snowstorm/elevator/cave/etc; human AUs. Yes, they're mostly awful, but that's almost always due to woeful spelling and other technical stuff. I just wish human AUs weren't restricted to Spuffy and the odd B/A. There are one or two Spike/Angel and S/X ones out there, but where is my 'Buffy and Tara have a sekrit lesbian relationship in high school - but Buffy's a cheerleader and Tara's on the yearbook committee! The shame! How will their relationship survive?' AU?)

ETA: I'm also a sucker for post-apoc. And fic set under Jasmine's influence. And 'the Tabula Rasa spell was never broken', though I guess that comes under amnesia.

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[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I forgot post-Apoc. Love that; in danger of overusing it in my own stuff.