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 01:31 pm (UTC)(I'm hoping someone will do a post-apocalypse one and a Jasmine one, and I know somebody mentioned a 'rescue cliches' one... my organization skills suck, or I'd do them)
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on 2004-03-27 01:34 pm (UTC)I was always really fascinated by TBQ's AU idea in Strategy where the guys didn't win out early enough, and the Jasmania spread to Sunnydale. That'd be fun. Ooh, Jasmined Oz would be fabulous.
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on 2004-03-27 01:35 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2004-03-27 01:53 pm (UTC)In the Magic Box, Giles was kissing Anya with a storybook slow perfection, so naturally Anya pushed him down on the ground and went for his crotch.
A weird nasty queasy thing happened to the world just as Giles was unhooking her bra. Just as Giles was... what?
Giles let go of her, looking almost as freaked out as she felt, and whispered, "We've got to stop waking up from dangerous illusions like this."
"Right. That slimy goddy bitch!" Anya tried to punch the air for emphasis and fell down on Giles again.
He lifted up her shoulders gently, and stroked her hair. "Or..."
Anya stared at him blankly.
"They do say third time lucky, you know."
"Oh, right!"
Anya went for Giles' crotch again. All in all, it hadn't been too bad a day.
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on 2004-03-27 01:55 pm (UTC)