Favourite cliche?
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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.
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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on 2004-03-27 12:13 pm (UTC)I do so love a nice trapped and/or post-apocalypse fic myself. It's very much omgh!the tension and angst how will they ever manage oh look they fell in lust how neat. But yeah.
And I've also a soft spot for the Mentor thing, as is shown in my Giles/Anya stories - somebody is ALL ALONE, god how sad, but there is always this one person who'll tuck you in and make you believe you can cope. Snogging is naturally a part of the process. Duh. :) Extra points if the person is also stoic and generally not sexual, until, of course, the lonely one arrives. Ah, the wonder.