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Looking through my ficathon assignments... I sure hope [person-on-my-flist] likes my writing, because I keep getting her requests *g*

Pondering which request to claim for the badficathon. I'm tempted by the Anya-and-Dom-in-New-York one, because I know very little about Dominic Monaghan (Monahan?) and less about New York. So that has potential for much badness. I'm afraid it couldn't possibly reach the dizzy heights of Kevin's hysterical DomLijah badfic (not yet finished, but I will hound him to post when it is. Ultra-femme Elijah, butch Dom, Sean Astin as the villain, porny out of context quotes from the movies and some fabulous metaphors: "You bow to no one," growled Dom, his passion barely restrained, like a badger in a shoebox, "this relationship is based on true love, with deep, meaningful respect of each other and such devotion to one another the likes of which has never been seen in a heterosexual relationship since the Flintstones".)

Favourite cliche?

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.