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THE FANFICTION TROPE MEME

We all know them. Often bewildering, sometimes surprisingly effective trends in fanfiction, the ones that mean when we click on a story we know exactly what to expect.

Play it as crack, play it straight, however you want. Be sure to note if you are open to smut and gen, just smut, or just gen!

GEN
1) SUDDENLY A CHILD. Whether it be curse, technology or just plot device, one character has now been de-aged. Do they retain their memories, or are they now just the child that they once were?
2) SUDDENLY A PUPPY. Again, stemming from curse or plot device, one character has been transformed into a cute, fluffy animal. Could be a puppy, a kitten, a bird… either way, someone's got to take care of them.
3) SUDDENLY WINGS. A world where everyone has wings? A gift of wings, from some mysterious figure? Either way, obligatory wingfic option.
4) THERE'S FIC ABOUT US! Two characters discover fanfiction/RP/fandom/what-have-you. Hijinks ensue.
5) BODY SWAP. Wait, but you're me, and I'm you, and how did this even happen I want my body back!
6) DOPPLEGANGER. There's someone who looks exactly like you out there. Are they from a different universe? An evil twin? Or have you just been duplicated?
7) HIGH SCHOOL AU. Maybe they're bitter enemies in canon, but in high school, they're both part of the chess team, so they'd better get along.
8) TELEPATHIC LINK. Characters can now read each other's minds. Maybe it'll contribute to a better understanding between them.
9) WOOBIEFICATION. Aww, it's not his fault he killed all those people. He just needed an understanding shoulder.
10) FIX-IT. Yeah, that canon event that screwed up my OTP? Never happened. This is how it really went.
11) BACKSTORY TRAUMA. Unexpectedly, one character or another has a severe trauma in their backstory, whether it be rape, abuse, abandonment, or something darker.
12) MARY SUE. There's someone utterly perfect/a long-lost relative/a former girlfriend lurking around. (Can be used to cross over two canons; a character in one canon fill the role of a Mary Sue in another.)
13) OTHER. Because one can never cover all fanfic tropes in a simple list.

SMUT
1) ANTI-FROSTBITE SEX. It's an icy cave, only one blanket, and one of you might not survive the night. Unless you share body heat.
2) HEALING COCK. One of you has been subjected to a major trauma. Rape, or torture, or a severe injury. What's the solution? Sex.
3) REDEMPTION COCK. Because having sex with a hero is enough to turn that villain around.
4) ALPHA/BETA/OMEGA AU. (See A/B/O meme .)
5) BDSM AU. In this world, you aren't gay or straight; you're dom or sub. That is the root of your sexual identity.
6) SEXSWAP. Suddenly you have a vagina, or a penis, or both, when you didn't have them before. Time to play…?
7) PROSTITUTE AU. Pay up, or you'll get nothing.
8) M-PREG. Can be expanded to all types of unexpected pregnancy. May lead to fluff and sudden domestic behavior, including nesting.
9) SEME/UKE. The most basic of smut fanfiction tropes: one person's now in charge, the other is now a trembling virginal mess.
10) OTHER. Because you know there are more.

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[More here for gen shenanigans -- would prefer the fade to black for smut.]

[No 2, 3, or 6 under smut options. Game for all the gen options. Also, if you somehow haven't seen TDKR yet, there will assuredly be spoilers in these comments.]

[Happy to play around with canon points or go full AU.]

[ Not really interested in gen - 4, 5, 11, 12, or smut - 9. Smut - 1 doesn't really apply, and smut - 6 would have to be someone else getting swapped. Feel free to blame Loki for it.

In BDSM AU, Loki can be sub or dom - sub means he's awkward and spiteful about it, dom means he's awkward and vindictive about it. A/B/O AU, similarly, he can be Alpha or Omega, though personally I see Omega a little better.

Combining options is also good! OTA for gen and for smut. ]

[I'm cool with anything except A/B/O, and happy to AU things in whatever way is convenient.]

[Not super interested in 4, 11, or 12 for gen. Open to cross canon, AUs, etc, etc, etc.]

[Charles still wants peace between humans and mutants. But peace requires trust, and trust requires that laws can be enforced. So he's special-anti-mutant-squad military, although he uses his authority as much as he can to make policies fair and nuanced.]

[For prompts, not really interested in Gen 1, 2, or 4, and I'd rather not do A/B/O or Mpreg. Anything else is fair game, and bonus Doppleganger comes with the package unless you want to AU into his world. For a BDSM AU, he's either a stubborn sub, a steady dom, or a prickly swtich.]

[No A/B/O please. Anything else I'll roll with.]

[Anything but ABO. I normally headcanon tentabulges for trolls, but I'm willing to go with normal bits if the tagger prefers.]

[There’s a funeral, with an empty coffin. Dani wears her dress uniform, but sits next to her mother. Leaves others to be pallbearers. His relatives are crying, there’s Latin, people keep standing up and kneeling down. There’s more Catholicism in a hour than Dani’s experienced in the past ten years.

Her mother weeps, and Dani holds her.

There’s a wake, after, at a bar her father held a share in. She begs off, and goes to another place thirty minutes down the road, avoiding eye contact with Crews and Tidwell when she leaves. She sits at a back booth, and orders a glass of scotch. Puts her head down on the table, and then—

Laughs. Full bodied, table-shaking laughter. It sounds off, but sober, and echoes through the bar.]

[I'll roll with anything, really.]

[Canon point negotiable!]

Edited 2012-11-16 18:15 (UTC)

[ Loki began to visit Midgard a long time ago, when he discovered little subtle paths between the worlds. They are so small, these mortals, and petty and frightened, and Loki enjoys walking among them invisibly, sketching out his influence in small encounters. Indulging himself without fear of consequence.

Unfortunately, though he does not anticipate consequences, occasionally there are one or two.

Like this girl.

It is best for any children of his to maintain their distance. Association with Loki is a danger these mortals can ill afford. Even so, he's observed her, now and again. She displays a shocking number of his traits. All the worst ones, except for her intelligence and tenacity. Loki alternates between disgust and grudging respect; his is not an excess of paternal feeling.

Nonetheless, after her mortal mother's husband dies, he sifts through worlds and follows her. ]

Is something funny?

[ Don't mind if he takes the opposite seat, grimacing a bit at the unwashed table. ]

Edited 2012-11-16 18:48 (UTC)

[Pretty much up for anything but A/B/O. Feel free to PM me if you want to coordinate before threading!]

[The pit enhances what is already in a person, but lay dormant. For most men, that is madness. For Bane, it was compassion.

For Talia, survival. Eleven years on molded bread crusts and water that dripped from rocks. While her lungs formed in dirt, her eyes in darkness.

She will not die. She cannot. And so, this cell worries her little. The precautions they have taken to hold her, even less so. She sits and waits for the officer they will send in. She looks as comfortable in prison as other women might in a garden.]

[ Open to all except there's fic about us, mary sue, and seme/uke.

If A/B/O, Clint is Omega; if BDSM, Clint is sub. Open to men and women for smut. ]

"So..." Sam looked up from his laptop, a frown creasing his forehead. Dean was out doing God knew what (only he probably didn't, because God not giving a shit was kind of the problem, right?) and he was "entertaining" the angel in their motel room. Though he'd gotten distracted by some links he'd totally not meant to click on from Becky's email.

"Why is it always you and Dean? Um, what do they call it? Destiel? I don't get it."

[I'll go anywhere with this]

"Dad?" Tony said, brow furrowing. "Dad, is that you?"

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the fanfic tropes meme

Pepper Potts || MCU || OTA

Miranda Tate | TDKR | OTA

Dani Reese | Life | OTA

loki | mcu

Anya Lehnsherr | Marvel 97400 or alive!AUs

Lady Sif | MCU | OTA

Charles Xavier | Human-in-a-world-with-mutants-still topsy turny AU

Daniel/Israel | Hetalia OC

Mindfang | Homestix

13, long lost relative

James T Kirk | Star Trek: TOS

Tony Stark | MCU

Spike || Buffy the Vampire Slayer

who's your daddy

Supernatural | Castiel | OTA

no subject

Clint Barton | Marvel

Bucky Barnes | Marvel | Winter Solider flavor or 40's

Thor Odinson | Marvel | Avengers

Jefferson | OUAT

Henry Sturges | Abraham Lincoln Vampier Hunter| Book

Marcus Flint | Harry Potter

Clint Barton / MCU

Gen 4, but I'd be interested in escalating with others

6-ish