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.

Comments

[electrcspacegrl.livejournal.com]

Point taken. I would read something if it's good. I don't read a lot of fanfic because it's hard for me to weed through the poorly written stuff. I like sites that only have well-written fics, but I still haven't made my way through the sites I've bookmarked.

What you said about the Buffy Human AU made me think of this music vid I came across that was for a fanfic story where Buffy and Xander were brother and sister, their parents were Hank and Darla, her father would abuse her and she got pregnant by Spike during a one-night-stand. Spike was the son of Giles and Joyce and they were wealthy. I tried reading it but it was just way too weird. And long too. When it comes to reading stories on the computer, I don't have a very long attention span.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Hee! I think there's one where either Darla or Maggie Walsh is Joyce's lesbian lover. There's definitely one somewhere with Angel and Andrew are twin brothers (!)