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I was reading a bunch of Clex fic last night, as I sometimes do, and noticed a lot of it warned in the headers that it was "cliche fic". Suits me fine, since there's a certain type of Clark/Lex fic I'll eat up with a spoon (it tends towards long, humorous, slow relationship buildup and a tendency towards fanon characterizations, with Clark confessing he's an alien at some point and Lex being thrilled and protective, and the telling the parents, and Bo waving a shotgun. Yeah, I'm easy.) I started wondering, though, what the common cliches are. I would think "trapped in a confined space" (AKA cave-in fic) and "x and y are forced to pretend they're a couple" are the most popular, but I wasn't sure of others. Luckily, there's a kink and cliche challenge going on at the moment so I was able to find thete1's handy list.

I don't know what it says about me that I love most of these.

I'm crossing my fingers for 'so-and-so pretend to be a gay couple'. Because I want to write Kennedy and Andrew going undercover as a straight couple (and definitely not falling in love with each other).