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

[fenwic.livejournal.com]

In re: Human AU. As a rule, I don't read them. But for certain extraordinary writers, I smash all my fic rules into tiny pieces. Writers like nautibitz (Crash And Burn) and yourself (Fate Or Density). You also make me read pairings I'd never go near otherwise. (See again Fate or Density, heh.) I was suprised to see you've never written Spuffy. Although, I suppose I shouldn't be. They're so conventional, after all :)

On the flip side, there's a thing that I will crawl through the worst muck in the fanfiction universe to get to: Hurt and Comfort.

Sigh.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Hee! I'm a little surprised I haven't written Spuffy myself, since it was my first OTP and I still have a soft spot a mile wide for that pairing. Ah, well, I have to write something for the Spuffy ficathon, so maybe inspiration will come from there...